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Feature Request: Global forward and back

Sometimes I use Foobar to playlists, but mostly I find the audio file of the moment some other way and launch Foobar.  So, inevitably, there is a disconnect.

How about something like Alt+Right and Alt+Left to to move among the various things Foobar has played lately?

Feature Request: Global forward and back

Reply #2 –
Enabling libraries is irrelevant and too complicated.

I don't care what Foobar is doing.  I just want to send files (in various formats) to Foobar.  At some later date, I'll use Alt+left/right to peruse the files Foobar has received.

Feature Request: Global forward and back

Reply #3 –
Under Preferences > Shell Integration, you can tick Enqueue as default action. You basically get a playlist that is your "history". You can enable Always Send to Playlist [__], so that externally opened files always appear in a special list. Does that help?

Feature Request: Global forward and back

Reply #4 –
Quote from: dhromed on
Under Preferences > Shell Integration, you can tick Enqueue as default action. You basically get a playlist that is your "history". You can enable Always Send to Playlist [__], so that externally opened files always appear in a special list. Does that help?

That sounds about right, but am not sure how it works.

Suppose these files are sent to Foobar via shellexec, or opened with File->Open:

file1.mp3
playlist.m3u8
file2.mp3
playlist2.pls

How do you use "enqueue" to switch back and forth between those files?
 

Feature Request: Global forward and back

Reply #5 –
Well, all that doesn't work if you use File > Open (which, I might add, is possibly the most cumbersome way to open anything). So I guess it's either play immediately and lose the playlist you had, or enqueue but not play. In any case, enqueueing opened files in a playlist will effectively be a history, even if it's a sub-optimal solution.

Do you actually play a lot of music, or just have the occasional file you want to listen to?