dBaines Columns UI Config
Last Updated: 2006.04.25 (25th April, 2006) - Temporary Documentation Layout. Better design with next version
Modes
There are two display modes for your new columns setup. They are Albums Mode and Singles Mode.
All of your playlists are shown in Albums Mode by default. The Singles mode is activated per-playlist, by putting an "-s-" in the name of the playlist.
Albums Mode Example
Singles Mode Example
The playlist switcher titleformatting will hide the -s- in any name of a playlist, so don't freak out if you can't see a difference.
For example, if you have a "Old Songs -s-" playlist, it will display in Singles Mode, but the title of the playlist in the playlist switcher will only be "Old Songs".
The singles mode comes with an Albums column that I'm not particularly fond of. I don't use that column, and if you don't want to either you can remove it by doing the following:
- Click on the preferences button (if you are using my buttons - if not, click on File > Preferences)
- Click on 'Playlist View' under Display > Columns UI
- Click on the columns tab
- Click on 'Album (-s-)' under Columns on the left, then untick the "Show column" tickbox
Currently there are two colour schemes available, blue and brown.
I'm planning to make brown and green schemes aswell.
To change the colour scheme:
- Click on preferences button (if you are using my buttons - if not, click on File > Preferences)
- Click on 'Playlist View' under Display > Columns UI
- Click on the Globals tab
- You should see the following:
// --- CONFIGURATION BEGIN ---
//
//
// Choose colour scheme:
// 1 - dBaines Blue
// 2 - dBaines Brown
// 3 - dBaines Green (Coming Soon)
// 4 - dBaines Black (Coming Soon)
$puts(scheme,1)
Simply change the number in the $puts(scheme,1) line. The numbers and what colour schemes they relate to can be seen above that line.
so $puts(scheme,1) is the default Blue, $puts(scheme,2) is brown. The two other colour schemes haven't been made yet, but will be made in future versions.
If you are using my whole suite (playlist switcher and buttons), then these alternate colour schemes probably won't look as good.
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Playlist Switcher
Put this code in to the titleformatting box in the general tab in the Playlist Switcher config under "Display > Columns UI" in your preferences.
[ screenshot ]
// If contains >> set as header
$if(
$strchr(%title%,>>),
$replace(
// Header formatting
$upper(
$tab()
$rgb(0,0,0)
%title%
$tab(4)
)
,>>,),
// If Is Playing...
$if(%is_playing%,
? $replace(%title%,-s-,),
? $replace(%title%,-s-,)
)
// Show length
$tab()
$rgb(128,144,159)
%length%
'('%size% tracks')'
$rgb()
)
To create a header playlist (a bold, slightly offset playlist title) simply create a new playlist and name it ">>Test".
This should produce this:
Turn on "Allow playlist rearrangement by dragging" under the "general" tab, the same tab used to imput the titleformatting code above.
This will make re-arranging and categorizing your playlists much easier.
The above code also supports hiding "singles playlist modifiers".
The singles playlist modifier is "-s-", see the modes section for more information.
In preview images and the examples in the "modes" section, you'll notice that the headers have an extra large gap at the top. This is simply a blank no-name playlist above the header playlist.
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Buttons
To make sure you have the latest version of my buttons, check this post.
That post will have the original set of buttons for download, as well as links to the various updates.
If you are having trouble seeing the buttons, read this.
If that doesn't work, then it might be an issue I've run it to a few times. Sometimes if you have buttons of varying sizes, some buttons might not display. To see if this is the case, either remove the buttons that are different sizes or convert all the buttons to my set.
Included in the "buttons" folder of this package, you can find a .fcb. This can be used to quickly update your buttons to my set.
You can import them by right-clicking on your button set and clicking on customise, then at the bottom of the new window, click on the tools button and then on "load from file".
Then simply remove the buttons you don't use/need or modify the order to your preference.
I have included a button for editting tags, however context menu buttons don't seem to work.
So until this issue is fixed or if you want to use the button for something else, just ignore or remove the little tag.
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Tags
Album Artist
If your album is a Various Artists album, or a mixed album, you can add an Album Artist tag to the album.
If there is an Album Artist track present for the album, the Artist will now use that tag, and the artist will be moved along side the title of the track.
Here is an example:
Before
After
It will automatically go in to Album Artist mode if you have any music in a folder that begins with "VA - ".
So for instance, if you have "VA - Ministry of Sound - Clubbers Guide 2006", it will automatically show the Album Artist as VA.
Here is another example of Album Artist albums.
Various
I've added support for discnumber, genre and year tags. They all appear under the name of the album.
They are displayed like this; "Genre" " • Year" " • Discnumber". If there is no Genre, then the genre is displayed as "Unknown Genre".
This way, there is always a genre tag visible, so if there is a year or discnumber tag, there won't be a weird dot before nothing.
However, it will display badly if you have a blank Genre tag defined (eg. Genre="").
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More titleformatting strings
These are the formatting strings I use, which you can see in action in my example images.
Main Window Title/Notifiction area Tooltip
// If Album Artist Exists...
$if($meta(album artist),%album artist% - %album%[' CD'%disc%]
[' ('%date%')'] - %tracknumber% - %artist% - %title%,
// If Album...
$if(%album%,
%artist% - %album% ['('%date%')'] - %tracknumber% - %title%,
// No Album...
$if2(%artist%,Unknown Artist) - $if2(%title%,Unknown Track)
)
)
Status Bar
//
// --- CONFIGURATION BEGIN ---
//
$puts(xdimmed,8C8C8C)
//
// --- CONFIGURATION END ---
//
$get(xdimmed)'['
$if($stricmp($left(%_path_raw%,7),'file://'),$upper($ext(%_path%)),
$if($stricmp($left(%_path_raw%,7),'cdda://'),CD Audio,
$if($stricmp($left(%_path_raw%,7),'http://'),HTTP '('$codec()')')))
$get(xdimmed) |
$if($or(
$stricmp($codec(),FLAC),
$stricmp($codec(),Monkey''s Audio),
$stricmp($codec(),OptimFROG),
$stricmp($codec(),WavPack),
$stricmp($codec(),Windows Media Audio V9 '('Lossless Mode')'),
$stricmp($codec(),Shorten)),
$muldiv(%__bitrate%,100,1411%)'%',
$if($stricmp($codec(),True Audio),'('$right(%__compression%,2)'%',
$if($stricmp($codec(),MP3),$if(%__extrainfo%,'~'))
$if2(%__bitrate_dynamic%,%__bitrate%) kbps))
$if($stricmp($codec(),Monkey''s Audio), %__compression%)
$get(xdimmed) |
$select($min(%__channels%,3),Mono,$if(%__mp3_stereo_mode%,$caps(%__mp3_stereo_mode%),Stereo),%__channels% Channels)
$if(%__replaygain_track_gain%,$get(xdimmed) | TG: $cut(%__replaygain_track_gain%,5) dB)
$get(xdimmed) ']'
// Progress
$tab()
%_time_elapsed% / %length%
$if($stricmp($left(%_path_raw%,7),'http://'),'[' %_time_elapsed% ']',
'['$progress2(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,%_time_total_seconds%,25,|,$get(xdimmed)|) $muldiv(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,100,%_time_total_seconds%)'%]')
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Misc. Notes
- This config relies on the following plugins:
ColumnsUI,
Album Art Panel
- "Singles" view column "Album" is optional, personally I don't use it and think it looks bloaty.
- I've included a rating column also, but haven't tested its functionality. It is from the 0.83 Soap FCS, and figured I'd might as well put it in. I'm not even sure if there is a rating function/component in 0.9 as I never use it.
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