Foobar2000 Customization Topic

[Jexxster]

Yeah, I can imagine that would be difficult. I only rip full CDs, not single tracks, so everything in album mode works for me.

[mitchmalibu]

Am i yet to find an effective config though, to handle both single\various artists\soundtracks AND albums in one playlist.

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i'm using all these in one playlist with navigator suite, "all music" in database view doesn't look like a mess now =)

[Ran Sagy]

Jexxster: I have alot of songs i liked off a certain album, where i didnt like the rest, lots of anime opening\ending songs etc, which are not albums, but i dislike having them in a different playlist since i often set foobar to random playing and let it loose ;)

mitchmalibu: yeah, have seen navigator's popularity. Care to post a screenshot of how albums and singles look in it ?

[acedriver]

Navigator suite does handle those mix collection really well. It uses trackgain info or "singletrack=1" tag to differentiate single from full album.

here's my config, all singles at the top followed by albums.

[mitchmalibu]

all in one screenshot

simple album, single track and various artists album

(i use trackgain / albumgain to diferenciate single and album, and "ALBUM ARTIST" tag for various artists album)

[Ran Sagy]

acedriver, yours looks mostly how id like it ;)

How does it handle soundtrack\various artist albums though ?

mitchmalibu: can i decide which tags differnciate those ? i currently have %singletrack% for singles, and %various% for VA albums.

[ember]

still on navigator, just changed its theme and fonts :)

[mitchmalibu]

mitchmalibu: can i decide which tags differnciate those ? i currently have %singletrack% for singles, and %various% for VA albums.

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singletrack tag will do for single tracks, but i don't know if the various tag is recognized.

(lyx proposed to standardize tag formats and proposed the album artist tag as a base for various artists album detection)

i guess you can also use the tag detection included in navigator suite (used when you put your "var art" albums in a separate folder with the name including the string "various" or "v-a")

[Ran Sagy]

Im trying to avoid changing the dir structure. I could use the ALBUM ARTIST tag style instead of the %various% i have now, thats not a problem.

[Spidy`]

Navigator with album / single (%singletrack%) / various (%various%)

[acedriver]

acedriver, yours looks mostly how id like it ;)

How does it handle soundtrack\various artist albums though ?

mitchmalibu: can i decide which tags differnciate those ? i currently have %singletrack% for singles, and %various% for VA albums.

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I use "ALBUM ARTIST" tag for various artist album.. it will come out like this:

[Ran Sagy]

Cerebrus: Could you post your FCS ? ill load it for the column settings and strings, and rearrange the panels like i use them ;)

acedriver: what does the ALBUM ARTIST tag contain ?

[mitchmalibu]

by default i put "various artists" but you can also put the name of the album maker and it'll appear in the album mode column (like in my previous screenshot)

[Ran Sagy]

Oh, i see, it simply uses whatever inside that tag as the name for it. That could also do :)

[acedriver]

yes.. you can put anything there..

[Ran Sagy]

Yeah, now using Navigator Suite v1.2.2 myself. Simply removed all useless tags from all my files, added singletrack=yes to relevent files, added ALBUM ARTIST=Various Artists to soundtracks\other various artist albums, and sorted by display name - perfect. Great work on lyx's part.. ^^

Now i only need to make a nice custom color scheme for it, and ill publish the screeny here for anyone to see ;)

EDIT: here we go. Modded it a bit (bigger column sizes, no dynamic now playing symbols instead of tracknumber) and added my custom color scheme.

Edited May 14, 2005 by ChaosBlade

[Jexxster]

Someone requested my most recent config, so I am upping it for them.

foobar2000.zip

[Phrozty]

Somantic-Itunes Foobar :)

[Dom]

That OST PWNZ! :p

[casanova]

nice.....

really really nice

[greatestfall]

my foobie.. thanks to cerber for the hook up on the config!

:D

[Jexxster]

I really like what you did with yours greatestfall. Hope you don't mind, but I took the idea and played around with it. Nice work.

[miscellanea]

I stripped out Navigator Suite a lot and got what I wanted, besides scrolling became much more smooth. There is little original code left, only a part of colour generation in Globals. :p

After that, I added some colour scheme others posted here and Hydrogenaudio, which are not included in "official" one. Mine is very different from original but colour code is compatible, so it works the same. And thanks to those who posted custom colour code. :)

In this screenshot (so large!) playlist 1 to 13 are "album", and 14 to 21 are "single". It shows as single if at least one of following is met :

1) file has SINGLE or SINGLETRACK tag

2) file doesn't have ALBUM tag

3) file doesn't have TRACKNUMBER tag

4) file has TRACKNUMBER tag but the number is zero

5) file has ALBUM but not TRACKNUMBER tag

6) file has TRACKNUMBER but not ALBUM tag

It also shows as Various Artists if file has VARIOUS or ALBUM ARTIST tag.

I add the config. Any feedback will be accepted.

[Phrozty]

My Minimal Foobar :)

[frease]

Phrozty:

Can you pls share the config with me? Thanks :)