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Reply #4200 –
the last beta is really nice
I agree with the possibility to have a no cover image.
Really nice plugin because it is always light

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Reply #4201 –
BTW, is there anyway (tool or script) to move cover art files to a central repo and rename them to something like %artist% - %album%.jpg?

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Reply #4202 –
Hmm if you use foo_default_videoplayer and add .jpg or jpeg you can load those files in foobar. If these files are folder.jpeg you can maybe extract the artist and album from path with a script. But this only works, if you have already a certain method where your cover files are.
But this is a bit complicated.

Columns UI

Reply #4203 –
in order for this to work you would need file ops to recognise jpg based file types and have them work with tags and move everything to one location... I dont imagine it would be too hard to do since the functionality is already there for music files..

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Reply #4204 –
Thanks musicmusic for your reply, yes, ctrl-a+  ctrl-click on "All" is a workaround, but ugly

What do you people think about independent playlists? I just had the vision of having something like Total Commander, 2 independent playlists which would make playlist organization easier. Currently it does not make a lot sense to put two playlists into the columnsUI layout, because they act synced...

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Reply #4205 –
I was so used to total commander.... (and windows explorer by the way, if you open two windows side by side).... that my first act with columns UI was to create two different playlist stupidly thinking that they'd be independant. 
So I strongly adhere to your proposal!

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Reply #4206 –
Quote from: bowen_tk on
I agree with the possibility to have a no cover image.
It should work, just define it in advanced prefs

Quote from: thuan on
BTW, is there anyway (tool or script) to move cover art files to a central repo and rename them to something like %artist% - %album%.jpg?
I don't know the easiest way to do exactly that, but I had some fun with Windows Powershell and foo_comserver2 to grab artwork for all of my tracks. You could write a script for Powershell to do your task as well if you're familiar with it (I put my script here if it helps, I don't mind giving any hints.)

Quote from: Squeller on
Thanks musicmusic for your reply, yes, ctrl-a+  ctrl-click on "All" is a workaround, but ugly
The alternative is an option to exclude empty items from the All node, but that would have to be per-field as it doesn't make sense globally.
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Reply #4207 –
Filtering things get complicated soon. As a workaround, I added another filter which splits stuff into my main music folders.
BTW, the windows power shell, a new huge toy really. What annoyed me was the startup time of it. If it doesn't start as good as cmd.exe, it looks somewhat artificial and I start to hate it soon. The old aversion against stuff like .net framework, java, linux guis on windows, mozilla software, etc...  All the slow non native stuff. Finally the choice is alright for me, to either use cmd and if things can't be done with it, write an application. Had no need for the powershell at last.

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Reply #4208 –
There is a problem with NG Playlist + Custom Sort which was working well earlier.

Under Grouping, "Show only on playlists"  has been enabled for certain playlists. In playlists which are not included in above option, the sort option is behaving weird.

When I click the column header to sort playlist, it results in sorting by column header on the left.

Example:
Column headers are Artist, Title, Album in that particular order.
Now when I click on "Title" header, it sorts by artist.
If "Album" header is clicked, it sorts by title.

Can you please check?

Versions:
Columns UI version 0.3 beta 2 preview 2
Foobar2000 version 0.9.5.1

Columns UI

Reply #4209 –
Quote from: Squeller on
BTW, the windows power shell, a new huge toy really. What annoyed me was the startup time of it. If it doesn't start as good as cmd.exe, it looks somewhat artificial and I start to hate it soon. The old aversion against stuff like .net framework, java, linux guis on windows, mozilla software, etc...  All the slow non native stuff. Finally the choice is alright for me, to either use cmd and if things can't be done with it, write an application. Had no need for the powershell at last.
Well, I found it, and it did what I wanted, so I was happy  Depends on the task you are doing of course, sometimes instant feedback is nice.

Quote from: s33m33 on
There is a problem with NG Playlist + Custom Sort which was working well earlier.
There's some issues if you switch from a grouped playlist to a non-grouped one, that should be fixed for the next build. Also, global variables were broken for sorting in NG Playlist, I fixed that for next build as well.
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Reply #4210 –
Dualpane FTW!

However, IF one were to implement such a feature, then just having two synced playlists isnt enough. Dualpane navigation only becomes useful, if you also have a quick and intuitive way to change the "location" of a pane. Doubling playlist-tabs or similiar is inefficient because of taking up too much space and looking too cluttered.
I am arrogant and I can afford it because I deliver.

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Reply #4211 –
Is there any chance that global variables will be available for artwork in future? We could just enter something like $get(coverPath) and Artwork would display images from multiple locations.

BTW, thanks for the amazing work you are doing

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Reply #4212 –
Hi there,

I'm facing a problem I can't seem to resolve with my grouping settings.

My string is the following :

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$if($strcmp($left(%album artist%,4),The ),$right(%album artist%,$sub($len(%album artist%),4))', 'The,$cut([%album artist%],$sub($strstr(%album artist%,', '),1)))$tab()$cut([%genre%],$sub($strstr(%genre%,';'),1)))


The problem is that my $tab() won't work... it displays a $char(7) instead of a blank tabulation.

Could anyone help me on this one ?

PS: I DID look into the archives, wiki, ... maybe I overlooked, if so... sorry.

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Reply #4213 –
0.3 beta 2 preview 3 released. This adds the minimum height for groups if artwork is enabled (probably best to set up a placeholder image), and fixes a few bugs. It's still a preview version, so there may be some issues.
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Reply #4214 –
The size of the album art column isn't saved across sessions. Bug?

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Reply #4215 –
I think I've encountered a couple of bugs with how artwork is displayed.
One album cover gets two narrow white bars added to the top and the bottom of it. Another gets a whole white frame. And the third isn't displayed at all. They are saved as front.jpg, front.png and front.jpg, respectively. The problem was present in the previous preview, too.
The same files placed in another directory work all right, and nothing changes with stripping the tags, so the issue must be related to file paths, I guess.
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H:\Audio\Music 2\Blast\2003 - Altrastrata\01 - Walking Matters.mp3
H:\Audio\Music 2\Stafraenn Hakon\2004 - I astandi rjupunnar\01 Solution.mp3
H:\Audio\Music 2\Balmorhea\2008 - Rivers Arms\01 san solomon.mp3


Also, what is the preferred scheme for placing and displaying the artwork for multi-disc release, when it's the same for all discs? With uie_albumart you could place it one level above the folders with each of the CDs, but it seems there's no way to tell NG Playlist to look for it there.

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Reply #4216 –
Really nice! Great work musicmusic

Any chance that artwork column will remember it size?

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Reply #4217 –
Quote from: Zarkon on
The size of the album art column isn't saved across sessions. Bug?
Fixed in preview 4, as well as a couple other issues, thanks for the report.

Quote from: Hakubo on
I think I've encountered a couple of bugs with how artwork is displayed.
One album cover gets two narrow white bars added to the top and the bottom of it. Another gets a whole white frame. And the third isn't displayed at all. They are saved as front.jpg, front.png and front.jpg, respectively. The problem was present in the previous preview, too.
The same files placed in another directory work all right, and nothing changes with stripping the tags, so the issue must be related to file paths, I guess.
Code: [Select]
H:\Audio\Music 2\Blast\2003 - Altrastrata\01 - Walking Matters.mp3
H:\Audio\Music 2\Stafraenn Hakon\2004 - I astandi rjupunnar\01 Solution.mp3
H:\Audio\Music 2\Balmorhea\2008 - Rivers Arms\01 san solomon.mp3
Try playing each file and checking how they look in the built-in artwork viewer panel (it may log some stuff in the console). Also make sure there's no leftover embedded artwork.

Quote from: Hakubo on
Also, what is the preferred scheme for placing and displaying the artwork for multi-disc release, when it's the same for all discs? With uie_albumart you could place it one level above the folders with each of the CDs, but it seems there's no way to tell NG Playlist to look for it there.
I don't have any, see here for where foobar2000 looks for them.
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Reply #4218 –
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Also make sure there's no leftover embedded artwork.
That was it. Sorry.

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I don't have any, see here for where foobar2000 looks for them.
You are using the core's mechanism, then? Thanks for the info, I'll be keeping track of its progress.

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Reply #4219 –
Thanks for the new release, I found a bug. Right click on Artwork column header "Auto-sizing columns" is written as "Auto-sizing g_columns".

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Reply #4220 –
I just wanted to drop by and let you know how much I appreciate all your work on this plugin. It's great, and the new artwork feature for NG playlist just made it even better IMO.

Great work! =]

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Reply #4221 –
How do I add album art to the playlist? I can't find any option or info about it, only that it's now possible. I can't find minimum height for groups either.  Using v0.3 beta preview 4.

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Reply #4222 –
Quote from: mil3s on
How do I add album art to the playlist? I can't find any option or info about it, only that it's now possible. I can't find minimum height for groups either.  Using v0.3 beta preview 4.

I wonder the same...

Found it (after I recalled the search thread function ^^)
Quote from: kanak on
Right click a column header. "Album art" should appear as one of the choices.
 

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Reply #4223 –
It would be nice if Artwork view shows, when no track is playing, the cover of the selected track/album in the playlist.

Thanks for the great work musicmusic. 

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Reply #4224 –
Quote from: CMS on
Hi there,

I'm facing a problem I can't seem to resolve with my grouping settings.

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The problem is that my $tab() won't work... it displays a $char(7) instead of a blank tabulation.
You can't use $tab() there, this is intentional due to the line in group headers.

Quote from: Hakubo on
That was it. Sorry.
What for? Information about encountered problems/confusing behaviour is always useful

Quote from: Hakubo on
You are using the core's mechanism, then?
Yes, coupled with the settings in CUI prefs for those storing artwork in a single folder. I may expand on the settings.

Quote from: thuan on
Thanks for the new release, I found a bug. Right click on Artwork column header "Auto-sizing columns" is written as "Auto-sizing g_columns".
Eugh, don't know how I made that typo. Thanks, corrected now

Quote from: Schadenfreude on
I just wanted to drop by and let you know how much I appreciate all your work on this plugin. It's great, and the new artwork feature for NG playlist just made it even better IMO.

Great work! =]
Thanks
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