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Columns UI

Reply #6325 –
I can't seem to sort tracks by tracknumber when the album is a various artists album. My groups config is:
%album artist%
(%date%) %album%

and I am using an autoplaylist with all the music in my mp3 folder. I tried:
- changing the "sort incoming files by..." thing: no changes whatsoever
- disabling the playlist as a "force-sorted" playlist. This allows me to order according to the columns I click on, but messes up the groups setting I chose
- setting custom sort scripts on each tag: no changes

It seems that it is sorting albums acording to the group and/or the file name (all my mp3s are named "artist - ##. title"), so VA get sorted for example this way
- A artist - 05. song
- B artist - 01. song
- C artist - 07. song

it's driving me insane because I can't figure what's wrong.

Columns UI

Reply #6326 –
I am using the global themed mode for CUI. For some reason the CUI playlist theme is much darker than the theme everywhere else on foobar2000 and Windows.

Is there a way to get it back to normal?

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Reply #6327 –
Quote from: garbanzo.bean on
To get foobar to play nice with SetPoint, find this file:
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\players.ini

Then add this:
Code: [Select]
foobar2000=wac,foobar2000.exe,
{E7076D1C-A7BF-4f39-B771-BCBE88F2A2A8},
xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,0,1,Foobar2000

didnt work. found a workaround tho; shutting setpoint down makes play/pause work. The other buttons were working fine and they do so even after shutting setpoint app down.

so, meh. Its working and I can live without setpoint custom shortcuts.

Columns UI

Reply #6328 –
Quote from: atomizer_ on
Quote from: GoldenLeaf on
I am having problems getting the album art panel in Columns UI to display any formats of image other than Jpeg, however if I were to resave a png for example as a jpeg it will display it.
Anyone have any ideas as to why this is occurring? Thanks in advance

I am also having this problem.  It seems to have happened after updating to 3.8.6.  At first I thought it was outdated libpng/zlib libraries, but updating them hasn't fixed it.  If I downgrade to version 3.8.3, it displays PNG files fine, however.


I have also updated my libpng/zlib libraries. The album art is still not being displayed for formats other than Jpeg even when using the latest 'experimental' version of Columns UI, version 0.3.8.7 I am also using the latest version of foobar v 1.1.4. This is really peeing me off now, PLEASE if anyone can lend a hand here please do, even if it's just a suggestion.

Columns UI

Reply #6329 –
an alternative artwork panel.

1) download and install WSH panel mod: http://code.google.com/p/foo-wsh-panel-mod/downloads/list
2) add a panel to your layout in place of the standard artwork panel
3) download and follow the instructions in this zip and import the script named "artreader.txt".

http://cid-649d3bfeaf541fbb.office.live.co...ide/samples.zip

4) it uses the settings from file>preferences>display.

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Reply #6330 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
an alternative artwork panel.

1) download and install WSH panel mod: http://code.google.com/p/foo-wsh-panel-mod/downloads/list
2) add a panel to your layout in place of the standard artwork panel
3) download and follow the instructions in this zip and import the script named "artreader.txt".

http://cid-649d3bfeaf541fbb.office.live.co...ide/samples.zip

4) it uses the settings from file>preferences>display.


Ah thanks so much. I did as you said and got it working only to find out I still had the same problem of not being able to view PNG files. Though looking at the part where you said "it uses the settings from file>preferences>display" made me go there and realize I only had:

front.jpg
cover.jpg
%filename%.jpg
%album%.jpg
folder.jpg

in the front cover tab so I doubled them and changed the extension to .png and now it works. I feel quite silly now for not realizing before. thanks man, it's much appreciated

P.s do you know if there's a search pattern I can put in so that it will use any image files in the folder regardless of format?

Thanks again Marc

Columns UI

Reply #6331 –
*.*

should do it. i'm not sure if anything other than jpg/png is supported. you'll have to suck it and see.

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Reply #6332 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
an alternative artwork panel.

3) download and follow the instructions in this zip and import the script named "artreader.txt".
http://cid-649d3bfeaf541fbb.office.live.co...ide/samples.zip

Great pack of WSH scripts

Trying to use them I got the following error :
Quote
Scripting Engine Initialization Failed (Playback Buttons by marc2003, CODE: 0x80020101)
Check the console for more information (Always caused by unexcepted script error).

console
Quote
Error: WSH Panel Mod (Art Reader by marc2003): Erreur d'exécution Microsoft JScript:
Un composant ActiveX ne peut pas créer un objet. (An ActiveX component can not create an object.)
Ln: 350, Col: 1
<source text only available at compile time>


I have similar error with other scripts, "Aero Seekbar" is actually the only working script.

context: Portable foobar install. foobar 1.1. Vista.

something missing ? what could I have done wrong ?

Columns UI

Reply #6333 –
have you disabled "safe mode" in the WSH panel mod preferences as per the instructions?

Columns UI

Reply #6334 –
Columns_UI 0.3.8.8 has been released recently ("experimental" status)

Changelog:
  •     Removed libpng dependency in buttons toolbar
  •     Added support for more image types in buttons toolbar
  •     Improved buttons toolbar options window
  •     Default button images are now DPI-aware (for custom images this only applies to icon files)
  •     Corrected default NG Playlist grouping scheme
  •     Fixed Items Details panel crash with malformed font change codes
  •     Amended Filter panel default playlist sort script
  •     Improved artwork edge-pixel rendering
  •     Added support for paths relative (to foobar2000 installation) in buttons toolbar
  •     Misc fixes




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Reply #6335 –
Hello,

Just a minor change I'd like to apply. Album art is enabled within my playlist; for albums with multiple artists, the album art repeats for each song. Here is a screenshot. Is it possible to have it display the art only once?
 

Columns UI

Reply #6336 –
Set 'Album Artist' tag to VA or Various Artists or whatever you want.

Columns UI

Reply #6338 –
Quote from: lvqcl on
Set 'Album Artist' tag to VA or Various Artists or whatever you want.


Is there another method? I like having the artists' names instead of "Various Artists" in the playlist.

Columns UI

Reply #6339 –
it still displays the artist in the playlist. "album artist" gets used in the grouping pattern like this...


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Reply #6340 –
That did it. Thanks everyone!

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Reply #6341 –
I prefer Status Bar to Status Pane because of its minimalist look. Is there anyway to configure Status Bar (i would like to add track title, album, and artist)?

Columns UI

Reply #6342 –
don't be afraid to look in the preferences. it won't bite.

Columns UI

Reply #6343 –
Found it! 
I know, i rush to much 

Columns UI

Reply #6344 –
Problem resolved!

Columns UI

Reply #6345 –
Why, hello there!  I just emigrated from iTunes, because it was fat, bloated, and slow.  I've got the newest version of fb2k, and the newest stable release of columnsUI.  I saw there was a third party forum, but I put this here because i'm not sure where my problem lies, so if this post belongs elsewhere, please accept my dearest apologies!

Everything that I want is pretty much explained in the image, but... here's a list in case it doesn't work or something.

-I would like a genre column... I hear these are easy to set up, but I need like detailed instructions of where to click, preferably with pictures or something because I can't figure it out.  I think that %genre%[l33tüberh4x0r]&blackmajickprogramming&$$ thing is confusing me...
-I would love for my albums to be sorted like they are in itunes.  Currently it does 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5... but I would like for it to go all of disc 1 in order (1,2,3,4,5...) then all of disc 2 in order (1,2,3,4,5...)
    -also, kinda subpoint of the two disc album sorting... i have a couple albums that won't even group together like that, they're split into two separate albums (ie. "Bluff Limbo (disc 1)" and "Bluff Limbo (disc 2)")  When I try to change the tags so they're all the same album, I get this error message "Could not update tags (Object not found) on:
"C:\Users\DJ\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\µ-Ziq\Bluff Limbo\1-01 Hector's House.mp3""  like twenty times, once for each track that I try to change.  I also can't change them individually.  what does this error message mean?
-I would love to have an oscilloscope panel at the bottom of my playlists switcher... it would be REALLY cool if it could go vertically, so it can take up some of that empty space, but i'll settle for horizontal...
-my compilation albums don't sort correctly!  I tagged them all with the same album artist, but they all have different artists, and I thought it would group them all together under the album artist's name, but I guess not?  I really only have one of these compilation albums, so I can probably live with it, but if it's a simple fix, then I'd love to fix it.
-Finally, (you're thinking "this kid has so many complaints, if you don't like fb2k, go back to itunes you jerk!")  I REALLY REALLY REALLY want something that will make it so when i hit a key on the keyboard ("B" for example) it goes to the first artist that starts with "B" (B. B. King in my case)  and if i'm feelin really fancy, and I type two letters in quick succession ("DI" for example) it should skip all the D's until it gets and artist with "DI" at the beginning of their name (skip Daft Punk, Damian Marley, Death Cab, Delta Spirit and go to Die Toten Hosen in my case)

Here's a picture of my current setup that kinda explains it...


You don't gotta fix all my problems, just one and you're a hero.  Also, assume I've never used fb2k in my life (because i haven't) and keep it in simple, step by step terms...

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, YOU ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE!!! (i don't know that, I'm making assumptions)

Columns UI

Reply #6346 –
Hello everyone... whoever moved my post here, thanks? I guess?  I feel like I crashed some party that was going on here in this thread or something. Sowwy...

Anyways, I was doing some more messing around, and I figured out how to add a Genre column, so we can mark that off the list!  YAY! V for VICTORY!!!
also, I figured out why those multi-disc albums were split into two separate albums.  It was because I had them in separate folders, so I removed them from my library, restructured where the files were, then readded them, and it's cool now!  YAY!  T for TRIUMPH!!!

I'm still trying to figure out all that other stuff though, so any help would be greatly appreciated!  No new questions have come up since I first posted very early this morning!  YAY!  S for STUPENDOUS!!!

Things I like about fb2k:  I can have multiple editing operations going on at the same time... so I change the genre metatag for all my songs, which takes a few minutes to complete, and I can still use the main window, and say, edit the year of a specific album while that operation is still going.  I like that multitasking functionality.  I also like how it uses way less resources than iTunes did for me.  I also like how its icon is an alien head, even though it's impossibly unlikely that aliens actually look like that because it's obviously based on assumptions of life on this planet, and it's very unlikely that intelligent life evolved that similarly to humans on a different planet.  Just sayin...

Columns UI

Reply #6347 –
Quote from: EliasThorpe on
Hello everyone... whoever moved my post here, thanks? I guess?  I feel like I crashed some party that was going on here in this thread or something. Sowwy...

Anyways, I was doing some more messing around, and I figured out how to add a Genre column, so we can mark that off the list!  YAY! V for VICTORY!!!
also, I figured out why those multi-disc albums were split into two separate albums.  It was because I had them in separate folders, so I removed them from my library, restructured where the files were, then readded them, and it's cool now!  YAY!  T for TRIUMPH!!!

I'm still trying to figure out all that other stuff though, so any help would be greatly appreciated!  No new questions have come up since I first posted very early this morning!  YAY!  S for STUPENDOUS!!!

Things I like about fb2k:  I can have multiple editing operations going on at the same time... so I change the genre metatag for all my songs, which takes a few minutes to complete, and I can still use the main window, and say, edit the year of a specific album while that operation is still going.  I like that multitasking functionality.  I also like how it uses way less resources than iTunes did for me.  I also like how its icon is an alien head, even though it's impossibly unlikely that aliens actually look like that because it's obviously based on assumptions of life on this planet, and it's very unlikely that intelligent life evolved that similarly to humans on a different planet.  Just sayin...

Hi!
Columns UI groups the songs according to the script(s) int the playlist view -> Grouping section. There is a help file for title formatting in foobar's folder. The sorting I think is done according what you have in the edit -> sort -> sort by... section.
I don't think the oscilloscope is available as a panel, there is only a spectrum analyzer here, Which you can add under the playlist switcher by putting both on a vertical splitter. I'm not sure what is your problem with the typing, it works exactly as you described it.

Columns UI

Reply #6348 –
Quote from: mzso on
Quote from: EliasThorpe on
Hello everyone... whoever moved my post here, thanks? I guess?  I feel like I crashed some party that was going on here in this thread or something. Sowwy...

Anyways, I was doing some more messing around, and I figured out how to add a Genre column, so we can mark that off the list!  YAY! V for VICTORY!!!
also, I figured out why those multi-disc albums were split into two separate albums.  It was because I had them in separate folders, so I removed them from my library, restructured where the files were, then readded them, and it's cool now!  YAY!  T for TRIUMPH!!!

I'm still trying to figure out all that other stuff though, so any help would be greatly appreciated!  No new questions have come up since I first posted very early this morning!  YAY!  S for STUPENDOUS!!!

Things I like about fb2k:  I can have multiple editing operations going on at the same time... so I change the genre metatag for all my songs, which takes a few minutes to complete, and I can still use the main window, and say, edit the year of a specific album while that operation is still going.  I like that multitasking functionality.  I also like how it uses way less resources than iTunes did for me.  I also like how its icon is an alien head, even though it's impossibly unlikely that aliens actually look like that because it's obviously based on assumptions of life on this planet, and it's very unlikely that intelligent life evolved that similarly to humans on a different planet.  Just sayin...

Hi!
Columns UI groups the songs according to the script(s) int the playlist view -> Grouping section. There is a help file for title formatting in foobar's folder. The sorting I think is done according what you have in the edit -> sort -> sort by... section.
I don't think the oscilloscope is available as a panel, there is only a spectrum analyzer here, Which you can add under the playlist switcher by putting both on a vertical splitter. I'm not sure what is your problem with the typing, it works exactly as you described it.


Yeah, I can get the spectrum analyzer, but i've got that at the top of my window already, next to the play/pause/skip buttons, so it's kind of redundant :/  I just thought there might be another like component to add more visualizations to ColumnsUI or something...
I changed the sort by, but I don't think it just did the same thing as clicking on the top of the column, like in any other program...  It's not really a problem now that i'm mostly done with major retagging, what bothers me more is the single compilation album that splits itself up...  I've got all of the individual tracks tagged with the same album artist, and %ALBUM ARTIST% is the first thing in my sort by settings...  I don't really understand how the %BLACKMAJICK% script-tag-programming-stuff works so i bet that's what i'm missing.



the typing thing doesn't work at all...  Maybe you have some setting on that I don't?  This is really the biggest thing I want to get working...  I've done google searches for it and this seems to be what i'm looking for... it's called Typefind.  I followed the instructions, but it doesn't work.  Maybe "some in-line search facility" doesn't mean what I think it means?  or maybe i'm just not using it right?  Maybe i'm just not enabling it/turning it on?

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Reply #6349 –
I think you mixed up "sorting" (the order the playlist is shown) and grouping (the "title" of your groups: In your screenshot it is Peter Seeger / Brian and Amy Wedding Mix or Ani Di Franco / Brian and Amy Wedding Mix)

To change the grouping pattern, go to Preferences --> Display --> Columns UI --> Playlist view --> Grouping
1- Select Show groups if it's not already selected (but I think it is)
2- In the script just below, swap %artist% with %album artist% and this will do the trick.
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