My music files are stored in a series of folders in the name of the artist with the corresponding album art for the files in the artist folder.  As such, these folders have varying number of .jpg files.  What I want to do is randomly cycle through all the .jpg files in a given artist folder for a playing track.  I cannot figure out how to do this with the $rand() function because the number of .jpg files varies from folder to folder, and therefore, simply appending a random number to end of of a .jpg file name will not work because the number of .jpg files for the maximum random number to be generated varies from folder to folder.  Could someone help me with the code for a source that would go to the given folder for the then playing artist and randomly cycle through all the.jpg files in the corresponding artist folder, taking into account that the number of .jpg files in a given folder will vary.

Quote from: Stuart60611 on 2006-06-08 04:21:45

My music files are stored in a series of folders in the name of the artist with the corresponding album art for the files in the artist folder.  As such, these folders have varying number of .jpg files.  What I want to do is randomly cycle through all the .jpg files in a given artist folder for a playing track.  I cannot figure out how to do this with the $rand() function because the number of .jpg files varies from folder to folder, and therefore, simply appending a random number to end of of a .jpg file name will not work because the number of .jpg files for the maximum random number to be generated varies from folder to folder.  Could someone help me with the code for a source that would go to the given folder for the then playing artist and randomly cycle through all the.jpg files in the corresponding artist folder, taking into account that the number of .jpg files in a given folder will vary.

To my knowledge you will not solve your request until you are able to get the number of jpg files while playing a song. You can add a tag to your songs including these numbers, or you include the number in the path name.

(width in pixels)/(height in pixels) - 1

Thanks for the response which has given me a good idea on how to solve my problem.  Is anyone aware of any software that can copy a series of files from a given folder and paste them into a subfolder named with a number representing the total number of files that were pasted into the subfolder.  This way I could use the subfolder name as the maximum number for the $rand() function.

match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*front*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cover*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*back*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*inlay*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*inside*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*outside*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cd.*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cd)*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*disc*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cd-*
$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)folder.jpg
$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*
-components\default.jpg

match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*part_of_filename*

Failed to load DLL: foo_uie_albumart.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.

You can try this one:

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match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*front*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cover*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*back*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*inlay*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*inside*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*outside*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cd.*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cd)*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*disc*
match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*cd-*
$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)folder.jpg
$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*
-components\default.jpg

If you have pictures that do not match the patterns, you have to add some patterns like:

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match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*part_of_filename*

If the pattern matches two or more files, only the first one is shown (no cycling inside the pattern).

Quote from: Stuart60611 on 2006-06-08 17:38:20

Thanks for the response which has given me a good idea on how to solve my problem.  Is anyone aware of any software that can copy a series of files from a given folder and paste them into a subfolder named with a number representing the total number of files that were pasted into the subfolder.  This way I could use the subfolder name as the maximum number for the $rand() function.

You can use Active Perl.
This software offers all you need to generate folders named e.g. x_count and to move specific files into this subfolder. You just have to build a script.

I would like to submit the idea of two checkboxes
'vertical shrink'
'horizontal shrink'
instead of only
'shrink image to fit'

what do you think about it, could it be possible ?

I have just one feature request: Could you add a user-defined amount of flexibility to the "Maintain aspect ratio" option? I would like my almost-square art to fill the panel but my clearly rectangular art to be left alone.

I have foobar2000 v0.9.2 beta 5. This is the error I'm getting:

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Failed to load DLL: foo_uie_albumart.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.

Sorry if the answer is obvious, but how do I fix it? Or that version of the player is indeed not supported?

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match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*part_of_filename*

gfngfgf,

Actually, I'm using Windows XP x64. I tried copying the dll you mentioned to both system folders (SysWOW64 and system32) and restarted foobar. Same error.

Thanks again, but I was hoping for a bit of a simplier cookie cutter approach.  I sure if I really worked at it, I could learn enough to hack together a script, but my program skills and time limitations are a bit constrained.  Do you know of any prepackaged solution?

gfngfgf,

about that new resizing option - maybe one to proportionally enlarge / shrink the image so that there would be no space left (taking padding into account). i have my album art panel sized for 1:1 covers, though quite often the cover image is not sqare (either by a small disproportion, or almost 1:2 or 2:1 when there's "open cover" shot).

from aesthetical point of view, i wouldn't mind not seeing the whole image - in exchange of filling the whole space.

Hey Guys,

I just noticed that album art plugin eats 30-40% of CPU on my machine. What's wrong with it? Does it really require that many processor power to show the image?

Quote from: Decuman on 2006-06-10 04:30:26

Hey Guys,

I just noticed that album art plugin eats 30-40% of CPU on my machine. What's wrong with it? Does it really require that many processor power to show the image?

What speed/type of processor?  I am aware that the CPU usage spikes fairly high when fading between sources, but I'm not aware of any other major slowdowns.  Try lowering the resizing quality, as that can contribute to CPU usage as well.

Yeah, I'll try to do that. The processor is Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2GHz.
By the way does it really matter for album art plugin if I have FB2K minimized?

I dont know how to address this, but it seems that when album are is loaded into the columns UI interface, it locks up foobar2000. This also happens when I press play and when i first start up foobar.

gfngfgf, ive found the source of my problems...

The default search string was looking in my music folder for album art.

On another note... some of my music has characters that windows wont allow to be in the filename (Ex. AC/DC - Highway to hell). How would i be able to name my files without the characters windows wont allow and still have the album art show?

My current format for sources is:
C:\art\%artist%-%album%.*
-C:\art\default.*