possibility to read metadata of a track being played

2025-01-28 10:57:57

This is a wish to have an option to read metadata of a given track being played, so to see the composer or else. Thank you in advance.

Re: possibility to read metadata of a track being played

Reply #1 – 2025-01-28 16:42:28

What track being played?  Do you mean streaming?

Re: possibility to read metadata of a track being played

Reply #2 – 2025-01-29 19:39:56

No, I am just listening audio files saved on my phone that I tagged myself. I would like to see the tags while listening to check them.

Re: possibility to read metadata of a track being played

Reply #3 – 2025-01-30 00:29:15

I don't use mobile, but it doesn't seem likely that metadata isn't already displayed.  What metadata in particular?

Here's a screenshot I found on-line showing album art, title of track and album, artist, etc etc:

Re: possibility to read metadata of a track being played

Reply #4 – 2025-01-30 00:57:36

In the standard skin, the composer is displayed when the genre is classical.
If you want to always display the composer, you need to edit the skin.

It would be useful to have Properties or Track Info.
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*if classical

[label]
1900,125,2025,200
centered
[font-artist][composer]
----

Foobar2000 Mobile:Skin file format
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000_Mobile:Skin_file_format

Example skins
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000_Mobile:Skin_file_format#Example_skins

White Skin 2023.fbskin → White Skin 2023.zip (Unzip) → White Skin 2023 folder
(Change the extension)

Edit:
landscape-16-10-4000x2500.txt, portrait-10-16-2500x4000.txt
landscape-16-9-4000x2250.txt, portrait-9-16-2250x4000.txt
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You might be able to display it by installing @Daiki's Skin.

NewMoon 2.0 and 2.0s
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,125642.0.html

Re: possibility to read metadata of a track being played

Reply #5 – 2025-01-31 10:38:03

Thank you for the possibility to edit the skin : I didn't know it was possible.

Yes, it would be useful to have Track info or Properties.