Foobar2000 Customization Topic

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orestes

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I just reinstalled, havent messed with foo in along time. I'm using 0.9 and see that many plugins don't work with it yet. Anyway, I installed Columns_ui 0.1.3 and am trying to add custom toolbar buttons...but for the life of me cant remember how. I remember there being an 'Other' tab with a 'Use custom buttons' checkbox...which isn't there anymore. Can someone clue me in?

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spex04

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I just reinstalled, havent messed with foo in along time. I'm using 0.9 and see that many plugins don't work with it yet. Anyway, I installed Columns_ui 0.1.3 and am trying to add custom toolbar buttons...but for the life of me cant remember how. I remember there being an 'Other' tab with a 'Use custom buttons' checkbox...which isn't there anymore. Can someone clue me in?

Right-click the buttons, and click Customise... You can change them within there, but it's different to 0.8

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In the actual playlist it's %_playlist_total%.

In the playlist switcher it's %size%.

were can I find titleformatting for playlist swicher?? I mean, there is a few pages about the playlist and stuff, but for the switcher?

edit: nevermind, didn't read everything.. :p

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spex04

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^ spex04, How do you get the headings for the playlist? Like .General, .Genre ... ?

They're just blank playlists, with specially formatted titles so that the string can recognise that it's a title (not an actual playlist), and display it accordingly. I've showed people what I did a few pages back. (Y)

that looks so slick spex, can you share your fcs? :D

Sure, it might be a bit rough though, only made it last night..

http://www.sendmefile.com/00313793

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Raditz

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Updates for me. Heavily inspired by a few people (from here and HA), most notably shannon...

Still waiting on foo_playlistfind... :(

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Help me out here :cry:

how did you get the panel on the left?

lol i know i'm missing something - do you need a different plugin or what? :unsure:

sorry for being so ignorant :wacko:

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spex04

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Help me out here :cry:

how did you get the panel on the left?

lol i know i'm missing something - do you need a different plugin or what? :unsure:

sorry for being so ignorant :wacko:

It's the playlist switcher (Y)

The titles of the playlist (General, Genre, etc..) are prefixed with a '-', and so are the spaces ('- ', important, must be hyphen then a space, otherwise it won't work), so the playlist names look like this:

-General
Albums
Singles
Temporary
Playlist Queue
- 
-Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap
etc..

Here's the code you need to put in the playlist switcher title formatting thing (in preferences) (slighty updated from last time I posted it):

$if($stricmp($left(%title%,1),'-'),
$tab()0080fe|b77c1c$if($stricmp(%title%,'- '),,.) $right(%title%,$sub($len(%title%),1))  
,
$if(%is_playing%,b77c1c|b77c1c ?  , ›  )%title% $tab() $if(%is_playing%,edca8f|edca8f,bbbbbb|edca8f)'('%size%')' 
)

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spex04

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call me dumb but where i put:

-General

Albums

Singles

Temporary

Playlist Queue

-

-Genre

Hip-Hop/Rap

:laugh::

It's the name of the playlists, so the first playlist in the list is called '-General', the second one is called 'Albums', etc..

Remember, for the spacer ones, it needs to be '- ', and not just '-'.(Y))

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Thanks for the playlist config spex04, looks great on mine (Y)

post-25418-1143145403.png

Question, I'm using the Navigator_1.4.0beta3 and it has a lastplayed column, however it's supposed to us the new playcount plugin but every lastplayed has today in it regardless of when I played it.

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For instance this track was played yesterday as can be seen from the right-hand column however the Navigator columns says it's today it has been played.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Also concerning the playlist config, is it possible to somehow hide the -s-, I find it a bit annoying having to see them in the names, makes it look a bit untidy IMO.

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I have foobar 0.9 and wanted to use tango icons 128x128 png file to set custom icons

but they appear very very big. Is there a way to shrink them with the default size somewhere in foobar option?

edit: bah forget it, I found the fcb thingy which is hell lot easier and less trouble

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scowl

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Thanks for the playlist config spex04, looks great on mine (Y)

post-25418-1143145403.png

Question, I'm using the Navigator_1.4.0beta3 and it has a lastplayed column, however it's supposed to us the new playcount plugin but every lastplayed has today in it regardless of when I played it.

post-25418-1143145919.png

For instance this track was played yesterday as can be seen from the right-hand column however the Navigator columns says it's today it has been played.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Also concerning the playlist config, is it possible to somehow hide the -s-, I find it a bit annoying having to see them in the names, makes it look a bit untidy IMO.

the new foo_playcount is different from the one that is available for 0.83. the new one isn't made by the same author. i hate it.

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spex04

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Also concerning the playlist config, is it possible to somehow hide the -s-, I find it a bit annoying having to see them in the names, makes it look a bit untidy IMO.

It is yea, post the code (for the playlist switcher) you have for it now and I'll change it for you (Y)

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