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Shortcuts & title formatting

1. Can seeking be added to assigned shortcuts/actions ?

Whem foobar is minimized and i activate the main window through a global hotkey, the seek/cursor keys don't work. Other assigned shortcuts do. A configurable global hotkey for seeking would be perfect.


2. Is there some more documentation about the title formatting syntax ?
Don't know if it's already an excisting format or something completely new.

I made the playlist look like this for normal albums:
[ artist - album ] track - title

But it's a total mess with various artist albums, so i would like to make those look like this:
[ album ] track - artist / title

Shortcuts & title formatting

Reply #1 –
There's a 'help' button to the top right of the display settings.. : )

Well, I use a custom tag to distinguish various artist albums, I use "VARIOUS=1", with something like "$if(%various%,VariousTitleString,NormalString)"

I think you might want to start from these:

VariousTitleString == '[' %album% ']' $num(%tracknumber%,2) - %artist% / %title%

NormalString == '[' %artist% - %album% ']' $num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%

You'll have to tweak these a lot to catch all possible situations though.. (To get clean titles all the time.)

edit: undocumented features: use two singe quotes to get one single quote character, use $if2(%TAG1%,%TAG2%) to display either TAG1 or TAG2.

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Reply #2 –
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There's a 'help' button to the top right of the display settings.. : )

No, really ! 

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Well, I use a custom tag to distinguish various artist albums, I use "VARIOUS=1", with something like "$if(%various%,VariousTitleString,NormalString)"

Of course thats it. I can just create a custom tag, as simple as that.

Thanks for the tip and the rest of the info, i'll go and play now.

Shortcuts & title formatting

Reply #3 –
seeking assigned to shortcuts is already on todo list; better mechanisms for seeking are badly needed first.
Microsoft Windows: We can't script here, this is bat country.
 

Shortcuts & title formatting

Reply #4 –
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seeking assigned to shortcuts is already on todo list; better mechanisms for seeking are badly needed first.

OK, good to know. I'll wait for things to come.

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Reply #5 –
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You'll have to tweak these a lot to catch all possible situations though.. (To get clean titles all the time.)

Ok, with your help i (think i) made a good string for the playlist, it's huge though.

$if($if(%various%,['['%album%']'] [$num($if(%track%,%track%,%tracknumber%),2 ) - ][%artist% /][ %title%],['['%artist% - %album%']'] [$num($if(%track%,%track%,%tracknumber%),2 ) - ][%title%]),$if(%various%,['['%album%']'] [$num($if(%track%,%track%,%tracknumber%),2 ) - ][%artist% /][ %title%],['['%artist% - %album%']'] [$num($if(%track%,%track%,%tracknumber%),2 ) - ][%title%]),%filename%)

It works like this now:

If i have a various artist album i make a custom tag like you mentioned, VARIOUS=1.

-If it finds the custom tag it displays: [album] track - artist / title
-If it does not find the custom tag it displays: [artist - album] track - title
-If it does not find any tag it displays: filename

Now i'm of to look at tag (by Case) itself, to mass create the custom tag on various artist albums.

Shortcuts & title formatting

Reply #6 –
 Wow, that's a large string.  Here's mine, which does something very similar:

$if(%various%,[%album% ['['%discnumber%']' ]- ][$num($if2(%tracknumber%,%track%), 2) - ][%artist% - ],[%artist% - ][%album% ['['%discnumber%']' ]- ][$num($if2(%tracknumber%,%track%), 2) - ])$if2(%title%,%filename%)

Mine displays:
Artist - Album [n of m] - Track - Title
or
Album [n of m] - Track - Artist - Title (if %various% exists)
or
Filename (if no tags exist)

I don't do an $if around the whole statement, because if it doesn't have at least a title, nothing else is going to be there. 

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Wow, that's a large string.  Here's mine, which does something very similar:

Oh, now i see how to use the $if2. You're right, it can be much simpler.

Based on yours i now got:

$if(%various%,['['%album%']' ][$num($if2(%tracknumber%,%track%),2 ) - ][%artist% / ],['['%artist% - ][%album%']' ][$num($if2(%tracknumber%,%track%),2 ) - ])$if2(%title%,%filename%)

Which does the exact same thing as my large string.

Man, i feel like studying for a math exam.