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Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #675 –
When I use stop after focused track, it only enables "Stop After Current, and stops after whichever song is playing and not the one that was focused when I clicked the command (and indeed has the icon from that column script). It's probably user error, but I don't understand what's going on.

**EDIT**
It seems to enable "Stop After Current" the moment I click on any other track. Why would it do that? I need to be able to change focus after marking the track where it should stop.

**EDIT**
Never mind. In the options for Playlist Attributes, it changed Stop After Current to on instead of Global for some reason. I changed it back and now it seems to be working properly. I still have no idea what most of the things in this component do, but thanks for the info!
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Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #676 –
Quote from: Cannonaire on
**EDIT**
Never mind. In the options for Playlist Attributes, it changed Stop After Current to on instead of Global for some reason. I changed it back and now it seems to be working properly. I still have no idea what most of the things in this component do, but thanks for the info!


I don't know if it will help you but..it helped me when I got clear in my mind that in the fb2k main menu, Under "Edit", Playlist attributes is listed there and THOSE Playlist attributes settings under Edit are for the currently active playlist.

In the fb2k main menu under "Plaback", Playlist attributes is also listed there and those Playlist attributes settings under "Plaback" are for Global settings.

The above knowledge helped me with the component because it made clear that certain things done within the component cause global changes and certain things cause playlist specific changes. It became a learning process.


I also have a custom button to set "stop after focused track" and it is set by selecting the track in the playlist I desire to stop after, clicking the button, the indicator I have set up (an asterisk) appears next to the desired stop after track. Done

And yes setting "stop after focused track" does activate "Stop after current" when the stop after focused track is reached.

If I want to unselect the chosen stop after track I click the button again.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #677 –
Show Active DSPs on the console

I suggest reporting active DSPs to the console when an item starts playing.
(not the name of DSP chain presets)
Option to enable/disable this in the DSP Manager settings window.
A similar feature was requested in 2016: Reply #37

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #678 –
I have a suggestion for you. Could you add a loop function to Foobar2000 please. I would like to have it like the volume slider. It would take 2 sliders, one for the beginning of the loop and the other for the end. That would be so awesome fore when I practice my guitar with my favorite songs and when I learn to sing difficult passages. Thak you for your consideration.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #680 –
What is needed most of all for Foobar is for Refacets to be updated to the full set of functions Facets had, especially to have album art view possible

Should take priority over everything else foobar 2.0 already works so brilliantly well for everything other then this
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Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #681 –
Hi.

I really miss the possibility to reload all playlists from the selected directory for the "Container -> Playlist Tabs" (if the name of the playlist matches the name of the .pls / .m3u8 file).

There is, of course, the option to save all playlists - to files in a specific folder... but... there is no reloading or loading them into Foobar2K (into "Playlist Tabs").

Thanks.


Quote from: Albicocche on
Quote from: anamorphic on
^ That field is added by Playlist Attributes. Unfortunately the documentation is no longer online, but the component download includes a help folder with the HTML help file. (The component download is just a renamed ZIP so you can open it in an archive reader like 7-zip, or once installed find it in the foobar profile \ 'user-components' folder)

Are you talking about an external component? So nothing of interest to anyone using FB2k on Mac, right?

Exactly so.

You have to download and add this component foo_playlist_attributes to Foobar2K: https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_playlist_attributes

This component then adds the %pla_stop_focused_track_active% variable available.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #682 –
Using the search inside foobar [ctrl+F]; be able to remove the searched tracks from playlists.

To achieve what?
* Filter/curate your massive playlists by using known unwanted words.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #683 –
(UI) Tabs Customization
Tabs are an important aspect of fb2k, and it would be nice if they received more attention.

Fit Center


Auto Fit


Borderless


Coloured


Custom Shape

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #684 –
I'm struggling with updating myself to V2+ with the differences between Facets and ReFacets seeming to be the final thing I just can't work around. To be honest, I've been burning out trying to grasp where the basic behaviors of the program are being driven over this, so I'll try to stick to describing my user experience.

Facets: I use this as the primary way I browse my library. Single-click sends the selection to my primary playlist viewer. From there I either play music directly (enjoying the default behavior that the rest of the selection will continue autoplaying while I continue to browse, with further interactions with Facets NOT disrupting this directly). Or I use my playlist viewer to create manual playlists with drag&drop from a Playlist Viewer panel, into a Playlist List panel. Additionally, I use EsPlaylist (I realize this is an old/unsupported component; it is the primary thing keeping me on 32bit builds as it works fine and I have yet to find anything else to replicate this functionality), so that I can have a secondary Playlist Viewer panel, which keeps the Currently Playing selection on the screen so I can just have it for viewing, or interact with it directly, while continuing to otherwise browse via Facets/<Primary Playlist viewer panel>.

I've moved on somewhat but my desired functionality is pretty succinctly designed around in the Theme Strigui 2.0, which is documented here (even without loading it, perhaps a picture is worth a thousand words): https://theqwertiest.github.io/foo_spider_monkey_panel/docs/script_showcase/full_themes/

ReFacets: Two things are disrupted compared to my facets usage: One, it does not have the same single-click behavior, which frankly I do not really understand what it is doing under the hood, but whereas Facets automatically maintains both a "Library Viewer Selection" and "Library Viewer Selection (now playing)" playlist, as a product of its default settings, ReFacets seems to simply lack this functionality. EsPlaylist functionality is thus broken. Additionally, if I have music playing, continuing to browse my library via ReFacets hijacks the active queue (oh god I'm having flashbacks to trying and failing to understand exactly what the "queue" is in fb2k so I apologize if I'm incorrectly invoking a specific meaning here). E.g. I select an album by Artist A in Refacets. I start playing Track 1 (by double clicking from my playlist viewer panel). It automatically goes on to Track 2, then Track 3 etc. While Track 3 is playing, I click on Artist B in ReFacets. When Artist A Track 3 ends, Track 1 by artist B will automatically play, whereas I wanted it to continue on to Track 4 by A.

I'll just add that I have noted the settings under Media Library for "Library viewer selection playlist" and, these have only ever brought me confusion, as they seem like they would drive the things I am attributing to Facets, and would like to see implemented in Refacets, but toggling them only seems to change the names of the relevant playlists a bit, or frankly I get burned out trying to find the right permutation of all these things.

In conclusion I'd really like it if ReFacets could simply duplicate the behavior I'm very accustomed to in Facets (ReFacets certainly looks prettier in my attempts to theme v2+ to my liking), although if it's possible for someone to explain to me that my usage is overwrought and there's other ways to use all of this and be less confused, that might be nice too.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #685 –
^ @JoeSyr - To explain a bit, in Preferences > Media Library > Library Viewer Selection Playlist > Enabled - this is the single-click option for both ReFacets and Album List. It creates / updates a "Library" playlist when you click on something. (Also enable 'Activate When Changed' to switch to this playlist automatically)

Facets (and all other third-party components) do not use this option, they use their own - the equivalent in Facets is the 'Selection action: Send to selection playlist' (where 'Selection action' = single-click, sending to a "Library" playlist)

The option you have noted is missing in both ReFacets and Album List, is 'Selection action: Send to selection playlist, keep playing playlist'. It keeps a "Library (playing)" playlist. Without that, what ends up happening is that you are over-writing the "Library" playlist with new tracks, and if it was playing at the time, you just replaced the tracks you wanted to play.

If you want to keep using ReFacets, you have to send what you want to play to a new playlist, set 'Double-click action: Send to new playlist'. Then unfortunately you have to manually start playback, because the 'Start playback when sending...' option does not work here (clearly a bug, the identical options work for Album List). Theoretically - EsPlaylist should display the "Now Playing" tracks, and you can single-click in ReFacets to continue browsing (switching to "Library" playlist) and drag tracks over. This unfortunately also means you have to manually delete the accumulated playlists afterwards.

(None of this is ideal, and the issue has been mentioned since v2 came out)

You might consider using Library Tree instead, which already does "Facets" better - though it has tons of view options that take some time to experiment with. (It also has a 'Keep playing playlist' mode)

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #686 –
Quote from: Air KEN on
foobar2000 v2.0 Playlist View: Could you please add Subgroup feature?
(It seems that there are many requests)

https://i.imgur.com/QGFOenh.png

I definitely second this request! Subgroups are the only way to organize the physical components of an album (such as its individual physical disks) in the playlist view, which allows me to clearly see where a new disk begins. I would therefore appreciate it if a solution like the one SimPlaylist provides could be incorporated into foobar2000 itself. (Currently not having that in foobar2000 2.x due to that plugin not being updated is my number one reason for not upgrading.)

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #687 –
Hi, I'm new to this forum, and i very much like Foobar2000.
What i would like to submit as a new idea to a future update is a new Playback Order.

What i would consider as a really nice feature is to play music at a given amount of time, so it can be used as a countdown timer.
For example. it can set the total amount of playime to 60 min. and it will play my music for that given time.
For me it could be a very nice way to be used as an alarm function, but the silence is the signal.
I think i would not want to set it as "Randomly" playing through all my playlist, but maybe there could be an option to choose from.

I dont know if this feature is already submitted by anyone but i hope it will be read.

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Reply #688 –
50 Hz limit for the Spectrum and for the built in equalizer simply doesn't cut it in 2023. Almost every song I listen plays low-frequency tones which are below 50Hz. Very often it goes under 30Hz. Not sure what was the reason for the decision to limit "low" frequencies at 50Hz. Seams like a step back, not forward.
In general I really like foobar2000 player and I'm really thankful to the developers for providing such a great player for free, while actively supporting it. It's just sad to see strange decisions that may lead to decreased popularity of the player.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #689 –
Dear Colleagues, please support my suggestion described below (keyboard shortcuts to equalizer presets and next/previous album).
I am an audiophile, but many years ago my vision about this hobby changed seriously.
I realised that instead of chasing the perfect sound, a "pleasant sound at high volume" system is my way. Then I built an A/B loudspeaker/amplifier switch, and was shocked to find that there was no difference between the sound of amplifiers and DACs. But the sound of the speakers is very different: I currently use 6 pairs of speakers with a LUB-27 type loudspeaker/amplifier switch. They all sound different depending on placement, volume, track, and it's meaningless to say "best". I have also found that the foobar equalizer does not degrade the sound image like an analogue tone control. So I now use the equalizer with confidence, and the only extra I wish for is the keyboard shortcut option to change between preset settings.
Also,would be nice to be able to switch between albums with a keyboard shortcut: even a cheap car stereo can do that, but not foobar?

shuffle and random: no restart when skipping

Reply #690 –
Make the random/shuffle modes take a skipped song as "played" so it doesn't restart the shuffle/random playlist again playing already played songs.

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #691 –
Quote from: Erik76 on
Hi, I'm new to this forum, and i very much like Foobar2000.
What i would like to submit as a new idea to a future update is a new Playback Order.

What i would consider as a really nice feature is to play music at a given amount of time, so it can be used as a countdown timer.
For example. it can set the total amount of playime to 60 min. and it will play my music for that given time.
For me it could be a very nice way to be used as an alarm function, but the silence is the signal.
I think i would not want to set it as "Randomly" playing through all my playlist, but maybe there could be an option to choose from.

I dont know if this feature is already submitted by anyone but i hope it will be read.


I use this https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_scheduler
It lets you program foobar with many options, time based and event based.  I for example, use it to play ambient sounds at different times of day, like birds singing, wind through leaves and rain at night. Yeah, a weirdo, but I´m happy with it.

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Reply #692 –
[DUI / Playlist view]

With the new column types like "album cover", one can finally implement different playlist view types. Given that the application even allows to "Remember layout for this playlist", a way to

  • save/re-apply (e.g. named presets, similar to foo_masstag) or
  • copy/paste (similar to layout editing's cut/paste experience)

between playlists would be very helpful. So far, I have the need for two layouts:

  • "album view" (with album art, no "artist / album" column) and a
  • "single track" (no album art, "artist / album" column present).

Or does anybody have a clever workflow to quickly create a new playlist (auto or manual) with a desired column layout?

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Reply #693 –
I'm wishing to have the option "send/add to playlist xyz" in context menu for 64bit like in 32bit version. Nice with button and shortcut.
thanks

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Reply #694 –
The ability to visualize DSD signals without having to do DoP nor converting to PCM first would be cool, since DSD signals are 1-bit (essentially an array of false/true boolean values, at least for 1-bit DSD) with much higher sampling rate unless otherwise stated, which mean I can do a 1D Walsh-Hadamard transform (which is basically a Fourier transform on array of booleans) on DSD audio data to visualize spectrum without having to convert it to PCM first

Disclaimer: I don't have experience with DSD audio nor SACD-related thing (and WASAPI doesn't support DSD anyway at least without having to convert to PCM, but that's fine for most if not all parts), just an idea for fun addition to see for extending visualization support for non-PCM audio especially DSD, and therefore idk the one-dimensional Hadamard transform of DSD (or 1-bit delta-sigma/pulse-density modulation thing) data is the same as FFT of PCM data or it is completely different from eachother
 

Re: [Suggestions / Wishlists] for future updates

Reply #695 –
It sure would be great if foo_vis_vumeter was internalized or updated, anybody please?

yes, i'm beggin ...
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  ;~)

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Reply #696 –
Quote from: 2tec on
It sure would be great if foo_vis_vumeter was internalized or updated, anybody please?

yes, i'm beggin ...

Yes! I love the VU's :-)

And the original Peakmeter en Channel Spectrum.

Cannot move to x64 before conversion of these and spidermonkey.

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Reply #697 –
Hi. I'm on the latest preview version, x64. I keep streaming radio stations in a playlist and I'm on a hinky connection.

Whenever there's a network hiccup, Foobar jumps to the next playlist entry, even if it's for less than the "keep reconnecting" value in Networking. Any chance for an option to stay on the same playlist entry/audio stream?

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Reply #698 –
Would be nice to have the default UI seekbar slider adapt to the Windows 11 accent color or, alternatively, the highlight color selected in Preferences. Mine stays blue no matter what.

And actually the same is true when using the >>text<< highlighting syntax in the status bar, it always seems to use blue as the highlight color, regardless of the selected highlight color or Windows accent color, whereas the playlist view uses the highlight color from Preferences if set.

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Reply #699 –
Please make sorting options for autoplaylists less confusing. The "Sort pattern" box seems redundant since the sort pattern can also be specified in the "Query pattern" box, so personally I don't see the point in providing two places to specify a sort pattern right next to each other on the same window. It's actually a source of confusion for new users, especially in combination with the force-sorted checkbox (see my next point).

Another problem is that specifying a sort pattern in either the "Query pattern" or the "Sort pattern" boxes doesn't do absolutely anything unless the "Force-sorted" box is checked. This is very confusing. Most users would expect that, as long as a sort pattern is specified, the list will be sorted accordingly, with the possibility of altering the sort manually after invoking the autoplaylist by clicking column headers. To restore the original sort, users can simply re-invoke the same auto-playlist. Most users would expect the Force-checked option to prevent manual sorting. That, however, is not the case. If Force-checked is not checked, no sort is applied at all, and if it is checked the sort is applied but it cannot be changed manually. As you can see, there is a gap in the UX. It's all or nothing, no in-between.

Here's how I think it should work:

Force-sorted checked: If a sort pattern is specified, apply it and don't allow the list to be manually sorted by clicking column headers.
Force-sorted not checked: If a sort pattern is specified, apply it and allow the list to be manually sorted by clicking column headers.

Here's something I posted a while back, when I was starting with foobar2000.

Quote from: Scoox on
I would like to create a playlist that sorts when first activated (e.g. by clicking it in the playlist manager) but also allows me to change the sort manually by clicking the headers. I'm not sure what the various options do:

Query pattern: The sort pattern can be specified here e.g. rating IS 5 SORT DESCENDING BY %play_count%
Sort pattern: What is the difference between specifying sort order in Query pattern and here?
Force-sorted: If I uncheck this box, the sort pattern specified in either of Query pattern or Sort pattern doesn't work.

Is there a way to do what I want to do? What is the correct way to specify sort order?