Foobar2000 Customization Topic

[moglenstar]

Ok, you have to adjust the album list panel (edit colors, see previous post - deactivate horizontal scrollbar - activate vista theming)

And for the buttons; you can edit them by right clicking --> customise... on their position. Look at my screenshot to see where they are ;)

^Normally, there's a button to access the preferences, but CTRL+P is good as well ;)

Oh, and you should activate grouping in the playlist: Right click on playlist --> Sort / Group by...

edit: And just figured that out myself... everything looks horrible with the standard aero colour scheme! Better use graphite or blue... :)

also, if you're having a problem getting the seekbar, or volume bar to show - make sure you have foo_ui_columns installed :rofl:

[MrFuji]

^Wooops! :blush:

[ViperAFK]

Ok got everything working, but the grouping is really messed up, I grouped by Artist/Date/Album and almost everything just says singles tracks and alot of the albums are grouped correctly and alot are not but either way instead of the artist/album name it says "single tracks" and it shows duplicates that I don't actually have duplicates of.

Edited June 26, 2007 by ViperAFK

[MrFuji]

^ The grouping relies on %totaltracks% in the id3-tag in my config :)

You can easily change that by replacing %totaltracks% with %tracknumber% in the playlist config..

check //CD Cover and Reflection section in Item Display

and // Text section in Group Display.

I will release a new version soon with an integrated playlist switcher and better buttons :)

I'm nearly finished already ^^

Oh yeah, don't know about the duplicate items, but I cannot imagine that my config does that so it's probably an issue with your foobar (Double media library entries, perhaps)?

[2III7]

my foo. don't know if I should release the conf yet.

[Danrarbc]

Thank you MrFuji. I was struggling with getting a glass config that looked right.

[MrFuji]

I present, the perfect Vista config :)

Features:

• A glass window
  
• Cool Reflections :shifty:
  
• A sidebar with playlist or library view
  
• Option to disable sidebar
  
• Not many plugins needed
  
• Memory Footprint around 10 MB
  

Plugins needed:

• Panels UI
  
• Album List Panel (for Library View)
  
• Columns UI (Volume bar and Playlist Switcher)
  
• Quick search toolbar (You can mod it with Reshacker to use SegoeUI)
  
• Playback Statistics (for play count)
  

Procedure:

• Extract zip folder to \foobar2000\PanelsUI\
  
• Select 2Glassy\2glassy.pui in PanelsUI configuration
  
• Adjust Playlist Switcher Colours (Text white, BG black, selection blue) and set window frame style to none
  
• Invert (black BG, white text) Album list panel colours, apply Vista Theming and set window frame style to none
  
• Invert (black BG, white text) colours of Quick search toolbar, select searchtangoblack.bmp as custom bitmap and set window frame style to none
  

Limitations / Bugs:

• Grouping relies on the %totaltracks% tag. In order to create this tag automatically, select all your albums, click on properties, right click on Total tracks and select auto track number.
  
• Window title doesn't update when minimized
  
• Looks best with Aero Graphite colour scheme
  

Credits to the Tango! Project (Playback Buttons), Mark James (Silk Icons), em3 (Arrow and now playing images) and someone (forgot his name and haven't found the post yet) who posted his SCPL config in this thread (inspiration).

If I'm in the mood, I'll port the config to XP :laugh:

2Glassy.zip

[.stan]

Nice! But the volume slider looks weird! :p

how do I do the settings?

Looks like that atm:

Edited June 28, 2007 by .stan

[MrFuji]

^ You can adjust the size of the volume by right clicking on the bottom part of the window, select settings and modify this line:

$panel(Vol,Volume,$eval(%_width%-58),$eval(%_height%-34),48,36,) <-- the last two values define the size.

The other settings can be accessed via the preferences (Button or CTRL+P).

There you can find the respective settings. (See Display --> Columns UI --> Playlist Switcher ; Media Library --> Album List Panel; Media Library --> Quick search toolbar)

And I really don't know why you have a scrollbar in your album list panel... normally, the playlist should be drawn above it...

[srn]

Mr Fuji, the Buttons at the bottom don't show up in my installation.

I can only use the default Buttons no custom ones.

What might cause it?

I have libpng and zlib in my components (allthough I'm not sure if they are needed).

Is there anything else I'm missing?

[MrFuji]

Mr Fuji, the Buttons at the bottom don't show up in my installation.

I can only use the default Buttons no custom ones.

Hmm, so you mean you get the default buttons provided by columns ui? If so, you're probably using my old version? :unsure:

If you did use the new version then perhaps you have still enabled user profile support? As the button images use relative paths this can lead to problems.

I guess that libpng and zlib are still needed, haven't tried the config without them ;)

[golemnist]

my foo. don't know if I should release the conf yet.

I think you should, its nice and minimal.

Or, if you don't want to release it, you could maybe send it my way?

[dreamz Veteran]

I think you should, its nice and minimal.

Or, if you don't want to release it, you could maybe send it my way?

i agree. it looks nice.

does anyone have or know of any ultra-minimal skin (small window, no album art, few panels, mini-mode, etc.)?

[Exon]

Been working on the cover display of this for the last hour or so, going with the whole "cd cases for albums newer than 1981" thing that i've seen around..

a mod of a mod, grabbed black luna element config from the luna element discussion thread, and have just been tweaking it myself :)

no plans to distribute it or anything, not yet anyway..

It's because of all the grouping checks, you can just strip out all of the code that checks how the playlist is grouped, and it will work fine.

edit, replace all of your group code with the following

this will make the group headers always %album%

$alignabs(10,5,$sub(%_width%,10),100,left,top)
$font($getpvar(userFont),20,bold,240-240-240)

%album%

$alignabs(15,22,$sub(%_width%,5),25,left,top)
$font($getpvar(userFont),$add($getpvar(userFontSize),1),bold,255-128-0)

%album%
	$alignabs($sub(%_width%,$calcwidth(%date%),40),21,$calcwidth(%date%),25,right,top)
	$font($getpvar(userFont),$getpvar(userFontSize),,)[%date%]

	$alignabs($sub(%_width%,$calcwidth(%genre%),40),4,$calcwidth(%genre%),25,right,top)
	[%genre%]

	$if($fileexists($get(coverPath)),
		$imageabs2(27,27,0,0,0,0,$sub(%_width%,33),7,$get(coverPath),NOKEEPASPECT)
		$imageabs2(31,30,0,0,0,0,$sub(%_width%,35),5,$getpvar(Image.Path)border.png,)
	,
		$imageabs2(27,27,0,0,0,0,$sub(%_width%,33),7,$getpvar(Image.Path)nocover.png,)
	)

// If it's the fist line then don't show top line, else show.
$ifequal(%list_index%,1,,
	$drawrect(0,1,%_width%,1,pencolor-0-0-0 brushcolor-null ALPHA-25)
)

// Bottom line.
$drawrect(0,38,%_width%,1,pencolor-0-0-0 brushcolor-null ALPHA-25)

oh, also.. you will have to change the orange (255-128-0) to the blue that the normal LE foobar uses..

I'm such a tosser when it comes to this. Exactly where do i put that code?

I'm at the same spot as the guy that asked the first time was. :pinch:

[Narlzac85]

Took me a couple days to finalize this and I think I'll stick with it for a while.

[ViZioN]

Very nice foobar narl :)

[moglenstar]

I'm such a tosser when it comes to this. Exactly where do i put that code?

I'm at the same spot as the guy that asked the first time was. :pinch:

right click on the playlist, go to settings and highlight all of the text in the "group" box, and then paste my code over it :)

[Exon]

right click on the playlist, go to settings and highlight all of the text in the "group" box, and then paste my code over it :)

I end up in Dropdown Playlist when i do this. Is that the "group" box?

[MrFuji]

^No, he means the settings of the Single Columns Playlist.

Right-click on a track in the playlist and select Settings :) Then just highlight the text you see and paste the code...

[SebNET]

Hi guys! Im looking for good plugins to smoothness switch song, when first song going to end they are get silnce and another get louder. You know what im talking about?

Something like this but working -> foo_dsp_continuator

Sorry for my poor english!

[MrFuji]

^What you could try is to change the fade values in foobar's preferences... (Preferences --> Advanced --> Playback -> Fading).

And if that does not fit your needs then perhaps try this plugin! :)

[virgo89]

Can someone tell me how to show artist-album titles,

I also cant access panel_ui settings,

Edited June 30, 2007 by pS-

[Exon]

Can someone tell me how to show artist-album titles,

I also cant access panel_ui settings,

Right click on Playlist window and choose Sort/Group by Artist - Date - Album

[Exon]

How'd you make Foobar display the name on the taskbar instead of the generic "PanelUI" message?

[MAdbUSU]

500pages to many to read ...ther is a way to make ...right click on directory and play it to foobar ...?