Foobar2000 Customization Topic

[miscellanea]

I have an album which is made up of various artists, I used to have the artist tag as various artists and the title tag had the artist of the track and the title of the song, how would I go about using masstagger to reformat the title tags which read like this

David Bowie - Speed Of Life

to make David Bowie the artist tag and remove everything before the S in Speed Of Life in the title tag??

you can select "Guess values from other fields" then,

Source format:

%title%

Guessing pattern:

%artist% - %title%

Also I would like to get my tracks sorted right, just now I have them sorted by directory structure which works to a certain degree, however I would like every artists albums to be in chronological order i.e an album released in 1980 would be above one released in 1990.

My old sort string was

%artist%%date%%album%$tracknumber()

which woks but now since I'm using the album artist tag for compilation disks it mixes up albums because it sorts by album first. What would I need to change to fix this???

if a file has ALBUM ARTIST tag, then uses it, else uses ARTIST tag.

$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber()

Edited February 5, 2006 by miscellanea

[Phixion]

Can anyone help me? I can't get the selection background to goto the colour I want it too, I can't find the option to change the colour - I've looked all through foobar2000 > Preferences > Columns UI > Display area :(

Please help

[Jase]

^ i have the same trouble there too i was going to post this earlier but i didn't thanks for reminding me.

does anyone know?... i am also new to Foobar2000

[miscellanea]

Can anyone help me? I can't get the selection background to goto the colour I want it too, I can't find the option to change the colour - I've looked all through foobar2000 > Preferences > Columns UI > Display area :(

Please help

you can define colour like this in Globals tab - Colour, or Columns tab - Colour.

text|selected text|

background|selected background|[selected background non-focus]|...

example:

$if(%_isplaying%,0072dd|0072dd|,ff9900|ff9900|)
381000|190000||

[Ambience]

Can anyone help me? I can't get the selection background to goto the colour I want it too, I can't find the option to change the colour - I've looked all through foobar2000 > Preferences > Columns UI > Display area sad.gif

Please help

What you want to do is find the colour value. Go to Preferences -> Display -> Columns UI. Select the tab Globals. Then look around for values like:

design= ,info= ,selected= , etc. There are hexidecimal values next to those, so you use the colour picker down the bottom to choose your colour which it will display in hexidecimals for you to replace the old values with.

Here's a screenshot of the things you should be replacing.

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

you can select "Guess values from other fields" then,

Source format:

%title%

Guessing pattern:

%artist% - %title%

if a file has ALBUM ARTIST tag, then uses it, else uses ARTIST tag.

$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber()

Cool, thanks

[Googintosh]

I don't think I've changed my foobar setup for over a year

same old crap.

[moglenstar]

updated :cool:

[urge]

can I skin that? :huh:

[YBG]

Well you can change the progress icon thing if you modify the VS. I have no idea what attribute that is though.

[urge]

myfoooooobar! :cool:

[nXqd]

updated mine again

How I get this toaster, mine is very small :no: . It appears short time ;)

And I can't install custom play pack button :wacko:

[Von_Beard]

I don't think I've changed my foobar setup for over a year

same old crap.

i want it :(

[lordtinuviel]

how do i change the look of the playlist switcher???

also can i add a tab with the extended playlist generator???? how do i dd a database tab?

thanks

[Googintosh]

how do i change the look of the playlist switcher???

also can i add a tab with the extended playlist generator???? how do i dd a database tab?

thanks

I don't think there is a uie plugin for the extended playlist generator. i used the uie album list plugin and just renamed its tab to 'database.'

[lordtinuviel]

ok thanks, and how about my other question: how do i change the look of the playlist switcher???

[lordtinuviel]

nevermind i figure out

[nXqd]

Nobody can help ME :(

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

A couple of days ago I asked about a sorting string and miscellanea replied with this piece of code

$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber()

This works almost exactly how I would like it to, however it places all the artists like "The Beatles" & "The Who" with the rest of the bands beginning with T. How would I go about modifying this so that it places "The Beatles" under B etc???

One final question, I'm using the album list panel which I have sorted by directory structure, it looks like this:

If I use the sorting string above it looks like this:

Is there anyway of sorting the album list panel so that it looks like the first pick but with the albums sorted the in chronological order etc???

[miscellanea]

A couple of days ago I asked about a sorting string and miscellanea replied with this piece of code

$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber()

This works almost exactly how I would like it to, however it places all the artists like "The Beatles" & "The Who" with the rest of the bands beginning with T. How would I go about modifying this so that it places "The Beatles" under B etc???

One final question, I'm using the album list panel which I have sorted by directory structure, it looks like this:

If I use the sorting string above it looks like this:

Is there anyway of sorting the album list panel so that it looks like the first pick but with the albums sorted the in chronological order etc???

I'm not completely for sure, but I'll go:

$puts(album_artist,$if2($meta(album artist),$meta(artist)))
$puts(album_artist,
$if($strcmp($left($get(album_artist),4),'The '),
$replace($get(album_artist),$left($get(album_artist),4),,),
$get(album_artist)))

$get(album_artist)|%date%|%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2)' - '%title%

This code shows like this. It displays "The Cardigans" as "Cardigans". Also tested with "The Bangles", and it worked.

Edited February 7, 2006 by miscellanea

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

Cool, thanks.

I'll give it a try when I get back in from college.

The above code will only work for the album list panel and not for the playlist window too????

[miscellanea]

The above code will only work for the album list panel and not for the playlist window too????

It works with both. for the playlist window, Columns UI -> Columns -> Sort tab

[moglenstar]

How I get this toaster, mine is very small :no: . It appears short time ;)

And I can't install custom play pack button :wacko:

well im using toaster for foobar2000 - here

and for the toolbars you might need libpng*.dll and zlib1.dll .. both of which should go into the root of your foobar2000 folder

e.g.

c:\program files\foobar2000\

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

I'm not completely for sure, but I'll go:

$puts(album_artist,$if2($meta(album artist),$meta(artist)))
$puts(album_artist,
$if($strcmp($left($get(album_artist),4),'The '),
$replace($get(album_artist),$left($get(album_artist),4),,),
$get(album_artist)))

$get(album_artist)|%date%|%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2)' - '%title%

This code shows like this. It displays "The Cardigans" as "Cardigans". Also tested with "The Bangles", and it worked.

I really appriciate your work but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I would prefer it just to show the albums without having the year folders showing. Is that possible??

It works with both. for the playlist window, Columns UI -> Columns -> Sort tab

I can't really use the code here as I'm using Navigator fcs and there is already code in there which I can't change. I would ideally prefer a code similar to

$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber()

which I can use in the autoplaylist sort section and would just remove the "the" from artists.

[nXqd]

well im using toaster for foobar2000 - here

and for the toolbars you might need libpng*.dll and zlib1.dll .. both of which should go into the root of your foobar2000 folder

e.g.

c:\program files\foobar2000\

Thanks for your reply :yes: :blush:

Aaaaahhhhhh :sleep:

0 a.m I must go to bed and sleep now :shiftyninja: