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Reply #1375 –
Quote from: mil3s on
Why would you even have this option if it doesn't work properly?  I can't expand the top nodes if the +/- is gone. Awesome plugin other than that btw.


You can use the right and leff arrow keys to expand and contract nodes.
There used to be a link to my website here.

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Reply #1376 –
Hello Chris!

I took some time to think about the new beta versions of pt and have collected some ideas and suggestions. I hope you will pick up a few to think about them.

1. @playlist/s

a) The add/remove feature works fine. It would be nice if this could get completed by sorting. I mean this: If some conditions are fullfilled (leaves are directly under query-node, no specified population sort order and unchecked display sort) it would make sense that drag&drop inside the playlist-query doesn't copy the tracks but moves them. The effect would be that the order is also changed in original playlist.

b) same like above for dropped tracks from another source than tracks of playlist-query node: If you drag&drop a track from ColumnsUi playlist view between two leaves inside a @playlist query this tracks is placed in original playlist at the same place.

2. @queue

Same like for @playlist/s: This ability to sort would make pt to a queue manager that offers much more possibilities than foo_playbackqueueviewer.

3. @node

It is already in the wishlist but i like to mention it should just autorefresh the @node query: no removing or adding to original source. If indeed somebody adds or removes something inside a @node query the query should get refreshed to show the origin content.

4.@database

a) same like for @node: if you add or remove something to/from the @database query it will be refreshed.

b) now the autorefresh feature for @database works the same like for $playing. I like the new concept of the beta that makes for each source a special type for refreshing. So why not also for the most important queries! There are three situations where autorefreshing makes sense:
              1. changing tags - a feature the good old pt 1.7 already had: "update on tag change"
              2. now using the renamer means that pt changes the old names to the new ones inside the pts.file.
                  But if you add  or remove files to /from media library folders by the renamer this is not
                  reflected by the @database queries. In that case an automatical refresh would do the job
                  (The browser already does this!)
              3. rescan media library

5. @drop

I think autorefreshing @drop queries without repeating the whole scanning procedere would be a killer feature but also the hardest task.

Thanks for the attention to such a long posting! 

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1377 –
Quote from: topdownjimmy on
Quote from: cwbowron on

Quote from: topdownjimmy on

I have a drop query set to read the contents of a folder that is not included in the "Music folders" list in the Media Library.  Because these songs' metadata is not stored in the database, when I refresh the query, the metadata is not read, and all the songs end up lumped together in the query root.  Is there anyway for Playlist Tree to read the metadata when it refreshes to properly create the subfolders?  It seems possible, since files that are not in the media library can still be inserted into playlists and have their metadata read and even saved between foobar sessions.


Are you using the latest version?  I thought that the last couple version support this.

2.2.beta2 Jun 26 2006 - 11:41:51


cwbowron, are you able to reproduce this problem, or am i doing something wrong?

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1378 –
I'm having trouble adding new folders because there is no "New Folder" context menu item under my context menu for the root of the playlist-tree panel. Please help! Thanks.

I'm using the latest versions of foobar, columnsui, and playlist_tree. (All three updated today.)

This is what I was having trouble with earlier:

Quote
I'm having trouble, using 0.9, getting started. (Am I the only one?) I put the dll in my components dir, I restarted foobar and I see the component listed under Components in the Preferences, but there is no option to add playlist-tree as a panel, and I don't see any preferences for it either! :-/

the version number is 2.2.beta2 June 26 2006 ... am I missing something?

EDIT: I have columns ui 0.1.3-prealpha ... i'm checking into if that's the latest one...
EDIT: Yep, fixed it. Needed latest columns ui for this to work, but now I broke my album art panel! this smells unix-ish... foobar should have its own package manager!

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Reply #1379 –
Have found a small issue: if you create an @playlists node and check autorefresh option the same option isn't checked for the @playlist<> children queries.

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Reply #1380 –
An other small issue: If you remove all tracks from a playlist the content of its @playlist<> node is removed too. That is how it should work. But if you remove the playlist itself by context menu "Remove" the content of the query node remains.

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1381 –
If I have multiple values for a field (eg. two artists), is there any way for the song to be displayed twice under each artist, instead of separatly like "artis1, artist2"?

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1382 –
since I've made some changed to my colums configuration, playlist_tree block/freeze block everytime I try to make more than 1 research, anyone has a solution to solve this problem ? (just playlist_tree doesn't work anymore, foobar remains OK)

edit : solved installing a new version... :-)

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1383 –
btw,

could someone explain me please how the browser thing works with the last version of playlist_tree for 0.8.3 ? I only get a browser tab is a album column that display actually the results as 'artist - title'

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1384 –
Quote from: Superunknown on
could someone explain me please how the browser thing works with the last version of playlist_tree for 0.8.3 ? I only get a browser tab is a album column that display actually the results as 'artist - title'


This might have information you need:

http://wiki.bowron.us/index.php/Playlist_T...7.x#The_Browser
There used to be a link to my website here.

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1385 –
I should buy new eyes sometimes, thanks for your support

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1386 –
How to add a node?
Right-clicking the root doesn't show such an option...

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1388 –
Quote from: pstrg on
How to add a node?
Right-clicking the root doesn't show such an option...


You can also access the playlist tree specific context menu by holding shift when you right click on a node, or by middle clicking a node.
There used to be a link to my website here.

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Reply #1389 –
There seems to be a problem with sorting.
Entries beginning with letters with diacritical marks always appear at the end of the list, for instance:
- ...
- Zimmermann
- Zukerman
- Época
This issue doesn't appear with columns-ui or elsewhere as fb2k is fully Unicode compliant.
Am I perhaps missing some setting of foo_playlist_tree?
PLEASE SEE POST #1393 BELOW (MORE INFO)

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1390 –
When I right-click on a blank area in a playlist_tree panel, I see a context menu that includes an entry:

Playlist Tree [panel 0]

Does this imply I could have multiple playlist tree panels? or at least multiple configurations for panels in different layouts? That would come very much in handy.

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1391 –
Quote from: luckycatfu on
When I right-click on a blank area in a playlist_tree panel, I see a context menu that includes an entry:

Playlist Tree [panel 0]

Does this imply I could have multiple playlist tree panels? or at least multiple configurations for panels in different layouts? That would come very much in handy.


I figured it out, just add another panel through the layout congiguration screen and this works fantastically

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1392 –
Quote from: pstrg on
There seems to be a problem with sorting.
Entries beginning with letters with diacritical marks (accents) appear out of order at the end of the list, for instance:
- ...
- Zimmermann
- Zukerman
- Época
This issue doesn't appear with columns-ui or elsewhere as fb2k is fully Unicode compliant.
Am I perhaps missing some setting of foo_playlist_tree?

Tried to change Population Order from @default to the following, without success:
1) to $meta(artist);
2) to $replace($meta(artist),É,E)

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1393 –
I am not sure if it is a bug or if have missunderstood something :

I tried to use the @hidden/2 functions inside of $if but it doesn't work as expected. If i make simple format like: "%artist%|@hidden(or@hidden2) %album%|%title%" the album nodes appear a little bit darker when @hidden is used and they dissappear completely when @hidden2 is used. That is the way how it is described in Tutorial.

But take f.e. this format:

"@quote<@format<$if($greater(%_itemcount%,4,@hidden2 ,)>> %album|%tracknumber% %title%" to show just albums that have no more than 4 songs following happens: The nodes that should be hidden are still visible - you just cannot browse them.    If you use @hidden everything is fine: they appear greyed out.

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Reply #1394 –
Quote from: pstrg on
Quote from: pstrg on

There seems to be a problem with sorting.
Entries beginning with letters with diacritical marks (accents) appear out of order at the end of the list, for instance:
- ...
- Zimmermann
- Zukerman
- Época
This issue doesn't appear with columns-ui or elsewhere as fb2k is fully Unicode compliant.
Am I perhaps missing some setting of foo_playlist_tree?

Tried to change Population Order from @default to the following, without success:
1) to $meta(artist);
2) to $replace($meta(artist),É,E)

I have noted another problem that may be related with the above: some characters are not rendered correctly in the Edit dialog.
The image below shows a screen capture in which we may see on the upper part a bit of Character Map window showing a 11-characters string and on the lower the same string pasted on the foo_playlist_tree Edit dialog. Note that last three characters Šš•  -- "S" with caron, "s" with caron, Bullet character [$char(149)] -- are not rendered correctly.
I used characters necessary for e.g. Czech and transliterated Russian names.

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Reply #1395 –
Would it be at all possible to add a global option to ignore the 'The' and 'A' when sorting by display name?  I can add a sort string to each query, but would find it most useful to have a global setting to do that for me when I check the 'Sort by display name' option.  Similar to what foo_dop does when transferring to an Ipod ..

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1396 –
@jasnic02

You need to type your sort string just one time in the preferences page where you can define your default format. So everytime you create a new query your sort string will be taken.
 

foo_playlist_tree

Reply #1397 –
Quote from: q-stankovic on
@jasnic02

You need to type your sort string just one time in the preferences page where you can define your default format. So everytime you create a new query your sort string will be taken.

I see the 'Default Query Format' but I don't see where to put the sort string.  I must just be missing it?

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Reply #1398 –
Quote from: jasnic02 on
I must just be missing it?


I like ironical questions! 

So you like just sorting! My idea was to cut off the "the" by string functions, to put the "The" after the rest of artists name and to sort by display name or default format. I think you need a global option.

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Reply #1399 –
Quote from: lav-chan on
In the 0.9 version? That doesn't work for me. It asks for a 'pts' file, and if i change it to 'all files' and force it to open a col file, nothing happens. It just sits there.

I have this same issue. Loading .col files adds nothing to Playlist Tree, and I've tried everything I can think of to get this working... but no luck. I am using foobar2000 v0.9.2 with the latest ColumnsUI and Playlist Tree, but perhaps it's something right under my nose that I'm forgetting here?