Foobar Filter

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Foobar Filter

2017-08-23 14:49:15

Hello all,

I have a column/filter displaying band's albums url.

I want to be able to open a browser and visit that specific address when i click on the url listed in that column/filter.

Thanks in advanced,

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #1 – 2017-08-23 15:06:11

Just opening a browser and linking to the address by left click selecting is not going to work in colums ui filter since that function is reserved for....well....filtering.
However, you can achieve this functionality wit right clicking.
First get foo_run. In foobar preferences under tools - run services add new service. Give it a recognizable name under label and under path place the name of the tag which contains your links. If your tag is www, set %www% under path.

Now go to your filter selection and right click your track, select run services, select your created label name.
I know it's a bit more involved but this is the closest I could think of working within columns ui filter.

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #2 – 2017-08-23 15:35:16

First of all thank you very much for your kind reply.

I followed your instructions upto running foo_run.

Could you please tell me how to modify the green rectangled area so that when i right click on that album url it should bring the info specific to that album ?

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #3 – 2017-08-23 16:09:11

Under path put %METAL ARCHIVES ALBUM URL% (note the percentage signs) if that is the link you want opened.

Note, if you want to have %METAL ARCHIVES BAND URL% to be opened you should create a new label in run services (for example WWW band) and select that label if you want your browser to open that link.

FYI: %% indicates a tag name.

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #4 – 2017-08-23 18:27:39

Thank you very much sir

You just made my day !

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #5 – 2017-08-23 18:28:39

No problem, glad I could help.

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #6 – 2017-08-23 19:56:10

I somehow managed to edit a "search script" for metal archives. The script just works fine when the artist / album title is a word with no spaces.

The search returns odd when an artist or album name is more than word with spaces in between the words.

Could you help me to modify it

Thanks for your time

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #7 – 2017-08-23 20:26:23

I checked an album page on metal archives. It seems in the link spaces are replaced with underscores. If an artist has spaces change %artist% to $replace(%artist%,$char(32),_). You'll probably will need to do the same for %album% so change that too to $replace(%artist%,$char(32),_).
You're actually doing something similar that I use only I do it for rateyourmusic.com. This for example gets the artist page:

Code: [Select]

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/$lower($replace(%artist%,!,_,.,_,$char(32),_,&,and,é,e,à,a,è,e,á,a,$char(40),_,$char(41),_,-,_))

the $replace function replaces a certain character within a tag value with the next character described in the function.
Looking at this

Code: [Select]

$replace(%artist%,$char(32),_).

$char(32) is the ascii code for the space character which gets replaced with _.
Note in my example I have way more characters to replace because weblinks don't use said characters (& becomes and, é becomes e,à becomes a,.....). Chances are you will need to do the same for metalarchives to get all exceptions right. You can adapt my rateyourmusic link and see if that catches all exceptions.

Re: Foobar Filter

Reply #8 – 2017-08-23 20:42:06

Thank you very much again ! Some trial and error and it works

Metal Archives Band

Code: [Select]

https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=$replace(%artist%,$char(32),_).&type=band_name

Metal Archives Album

Code: [Select]

https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=$replace(%album%,$char(32),_).&type=album_title

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