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Reply #5550 –
Hello, long time lurker here. I usually find all my questions answered, but I finally registered to get some help with my Columns UI config.

I've recently switched from ELPlaylist to NG for its efficiency, but I'm not yet satisfied with my group configuration. I'm trying to figure out how to get a gap between a new album group and the last song from the previous album in the list. When the album is small, the size of the art creates a nice gap, but longer albums do not. (see pic)

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Reply #5551 –
I don't think its possible to create a "footer" you can see that if you've an album with a few songs, the cover+reflection is bigger than the amount of songs, thats all

test it, make the cover smaller and disable the reflection there a no gaps for the small albums too

take care
Chris-

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Reply #5552 –
I don't know if its possible to get a footer in NG Playlist since i only use ELPlaylist...

But since i'm not very familiar with NG Playlist:
How have you made the background of the group header coloured different from the track list?
It looks good and i haven't thought that such a good look is possible within NG Playlist.

To your question about the codec:
Don't use it in the group header, but create a new column, e. g. with the string:
$select(%tracknumber%,%genre%,%codec% %codec_profile% $if($stricmp($left(%codec_profile%,3),'cbr'), [%bitrate%]kbps,))

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Reply #5553 –
Quote from: tedgo on
How have you made the background of the group header coloured different from the track list?


you set the background colour on globals tab for the header. then for the playlist, use the style tab on each column. to set the colour of the blank space beneath the album art, you need to use the colours/fonts dialog in the CUI preferences.

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Reply #5554 –
Thanks, i'll try it.
Maybe i'll return to ng playlist one day

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Reply #5555 –
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How have you made the background of the group header coloured different from the track list?

What marc2003 said 

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To your question about the codec:
Don't use it in the group header, but create a new column, e. g. with the string:
$select(%tracknumber%,%genre%,%codec% %codec_profile% $if($stricmp($left(%codec_profile%,3),'cbr'), [%bitrate%]kbps,))

This would solve the immediate problem of codecs splitting the group, but it doesn't have the streamlined aesthetic that I wanted. Oh well, I'll re-encode what I want and eliminate what I could do without. Thanks anyway tedgo

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I don't think its possible to create a "footer" you can see that if you've an album with a few songs, the cover+reflection is bigger than the amount of songs, thats all

test it, make the cover smaller and disable the reflection there a no gaps for the small albums too

This is correct. If the art is smaller or without reflection, the gap is no longer there. It all depends on the length of the album and size of the art. 2 songs = huge gap. Like my screenshot shows, a 5 song album creates just the right amount of gap for my purposes.

@musicmusic - I would like to request the ability to create a "footer" item at the bottom of each group. It would be useful not only for creating a gap like I'm talking about, but total album length, comments etc. Please think about it 

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Reply #5556 –
Is there a reason autoscroll doesn't work with Playlist Viewers? At least mine is not working, does anyone else's work? I am meaning like firefox where you can hold middle button down and scroll up and down page.

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Reply #5557 –
Quote from: metalboy on
Is there a reason autoscroll doesn't work with Playlist Viewers? At least mine is not working, does anyone else's work? I am meaning like firefox where you can hold middle button down and scroll up and down page.


this is not an included feature

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Reply #5558 –
@musicmusic
Could you fix the incorrect handling of $left(%<artist>%,n) in Album list panel?
 

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Reply #5559 –
AFAIK it's not possible to use two different playlist-views next to each other ATM, right? Like one view for using with quicksearch (or ml-search in general) and another one for a certain playlist.
The idea to have sth. like party-mode is nothing new but still present - like the everlasting desire for party-modes at all

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Reply #5561 –
Maybe developer should post some reply on some of the many posts from late august?
Like should we expect some new release soon?

I personally am overwhelmed by feature requests on yuo.be and would like to see double playlist view implemented i.e.
Then away from filter suggestions, something should be done with grouping requests: everyone knows that NG artwork for groups with 1 track is annoyingly flickering for some reason, and is it possible existence of some grouping scripting, so we can disable grouping for groups with 1 track (but not like $ifgreater(%totaltracks%,1,group,))?

I hope this sound positively as I don't like CUI to look abandoned

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Reply #5562 –
Quote from: 2E7AH on
Maybe developer should post some reply on some of the many posts from late august?
Like should we expect some new release soon?

Also hoping to see some updates. Keep up the great work musicmusic!

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Reply #5563 –
musicmusic,

due to number and width of my columns in my simple Columns Playlist layout I must scroll horizontally to see all of them.

However, scrolling to the right I lose sight of my left columns which provide the essential infos (album, artist, track title and so on) to identify the tracks I am looking at.

So for a better overall view I would love to see a function in Columns UI as it is known from Microsoft Excel as "Freeze panes" (main menu 'Window'; I expect other spreadsheet programs to have this function also).

So could you please consider to implement such a function in Columns UI? It would be very helpfully!

Robertina.
This is HA. Not the Jerry Springer Show.

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Reply #5564 –
You can arrange columns by dragging it title left/right: click on column title and place it where you need

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Reply #5565 –
Yes, but in my eyes this only is a stopgap solution.

In Excel a rearrangement of columns is also possible but nevertheless the function Freeze panes is available and I think there are good reasons for it.

Robertina.
This is HA. Not the Jerry Springer Show.

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Reply #5566 –
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In Excel a rearrangement of columns is also possible but nevertheless the function Freeze panes is available and I think there are good reasons for it.


Just add the same column at the other end -- voila (;

PS. Foobar is not excel AFAIR... (;

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Reply #5567 –
Quote from: lwiczek on
PS. Foobar is not excel AFAIR... (;

Please excuse, dear lwiczek, but I can not imagine that you are really thinking it would be necessarily to bring this to my attention.

As professional musician I appreciate some Columns UI functions very much. So CUI's enhanced layout abilities enable me to examine my project files under various aspects. For this I am using different layouts and also I have several columns which are shown on certain playlists only (you may compare this functionality with Excel's "Custom views" in menu "View"  ).

A simple Columns Playlist layout is a spreadsheet layout in the end and the possibility to freeze all rows above a selected cell and all columns to the left of it ("Freeze Panes") not only would help to avoid this nasty back and forth scrolling but furthermore also lead to an expanded usefulness for all users (you would have a "splitting window" function as well for example).

Maybe in my first post I should have explained better why I do attach such value to the requested feature.
This is HA. Not the Jerry Springer Show.

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Reply #5568 –
I was only joking (:
And I was sayin' earlier -- adding another column (duplicate) would be a partial solution to the problem, and IMHO there is slim chance right now for this funcion to be implemented

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Reply #5569 –
Are musicmusic and this project alive?
Seriously.

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Reply #5570 –
Probably waiting on new foobar release

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Reply #5571 –
Quote from: ZeeJay on
Are musicmusic and this project alive?
Seriously.


You could've easily verified that musicmusic is alive by checking his post history and noticing that, as he said himself when he last posted in this thread, he's busy working on his iPod component.

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Reply #5572 –
Quote from: lwiczek on
And I was sayin' earlier -- adding another column (duplicate) would be a partial solution to the problem,

Sorry, I missed to comment your proposal in my first reply, it is a helpful hint, thank you for that, lwiczek.

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and IMHO there is slim chance right now for this funcion to be implemented

I fear you are right and that assessment was the deeper reason for my request's description in length.

Robertina.
This is HA. Not the Jerry Springer Show.

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Reply #5573 –
How do you remove the line and replace it with self-adjusting text like "MP3 VBR"?

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Reply #5574 –
Add $tab() after the left hand text.