[Foobar] Foo AvA by dawxxx666

[furyshinobi]

Hi dawxxx nice beta foobar config :) Just got a quick suggestion, for your foobar 1.04 why don't you just add some of the features from iAVA to fooAVA? I really like the white skin from iAVA so could you please add this skin to your new version of fooAVA?

[calo]

Good, Day,

i?m back, recently i?m updated panels ui for 0.14.9, and font show very well, but have another problem.

i?m attach image to see that.

thanks in advance

[calo]

hello,

another experiment, is i?m reinstall from zero all foobar, and FooAva 1.04 B3, with Panels Ui. 0.14.12 B (this fooAVA dont work with PUI 0.14.9),

and i?m upload screenshot, with same cleartype proble:D:D. but font not render bad, it?s more sharp,

I?M KEEP with this last beta configuration, is awesome!.

Greetings for all

Edited November 9, 2007 by calo

[Gambit61]

Keep up the great work dawxxx666, I love the update. :cool:

[jataman]

1. How you'll set ratings then?

Anyways, thanks for suggestions ;)

or add playcount info after the song title, like in Br3tt config ;)

ot

swietna robota, najlepszy config jaki aktualnie mozna wyszukac w necie. jestem pelen podziwu do wlozonej pracy i dziekuje ;)

[dawxxx666]

or add playcount info after the song title, like in Br3tt config

Hmm, why not, it can be done easily :) I'll add this feature in 1.04.

ot

to ja dziekuje, nie uwierzylbys jednak jak malo czasu na to poswiecilem ;)

[xankazo]

About v1.04 beta c. This is what I've found so far... good and bad points (just my experience in my rig).

+no restart need after background change (except when dark background mode selected)

+faster startup/shutdown

+cute settings menu.

+more options to change on settings menu.

+beautiful layout (CD for album art, nice buttons, and progress bar, etc.)

+excellent mini-player mode!

-bug when "dark background selected":

this happens even after restarting the application.

-when playlist menu is clicked and you move the mouse away, the submenu splits and only half of it is shown. (disregard this, it only happened once and never again.)

-no more "next song" (it was a nice feature).

Overall it's a very nice update and very much worthed the wait. Keep it up! :)

[cynric]

where did you guys all get the beta versions? i couldnt find any dl links in this or the other topics (and neither on daxxxx666s homepage)...

should i recheck my eyesight or is it a 'closed beta' only?

i really love this config and seeing all the progress, i cant wait to get the new version :D

great work, dawxxx666!

regarding the 'next track': it only ever worked correctly in normal playback mode; and if you needed to know what song's next you could just look at the playlist. but you could make a button to hide or display it in the config window.

[SMELTN]

same I went back through the entire thread trying to find a link to the 1.04+ beta..

[Potatoz]

-no more "next song" (it was a nice feature).

I disagree. You can always see in the playlist panel what the next song will be. And as for me, I always listen to music with shuffle option on, so "next song" was just irritating. :)

Am I the only who has this error? The cover in Album Art mode is too big

[dawxxx666]

bug when "dark background selected":

Am I the only who has this error? The cover in Album Art mode is too big

It's all fixed now. Thanks. (it was 'closed beta' so it would be great if you will use PM, not this thread)

[xankazo]

where the heck is the edit button for my posts?! I don't see it.

[Dom]

I would love to betatest the other miniplayer you posted up there... sadly, its for vista... and im on xp :(

[SMELTN]

I have a question. Is there a plugin for foobar that shows a ballon tip in the toolbar with song/album change? Like winamp or CAD does?

[Potatoz]

dawxxx666 could you please add the playcount via foo_custominfo.dll ?

The original one changes tags of the files :(

[Deavy]

Where did you got FooAvA 1.04 beta? Give me lilnk too, please :)

[Myssynen]

I have seen that many person has real rating stars before track time. Can someone give code to real rating stars? I've been using 1.03 version for a while, but only thing what i like, but i don't know how to customize is the stars. Here's how it looks today.

[Vivek1984]

Hi dawxxx666. First of all, fantastic work on your version of foobar! I'm completely new to foobar, and as soon as someone linked me to your skin I jumped right on it. The default foobar interface is ugly as anything and probably would've turned me off foobar altogether, as I would never have been able to create foobars like the ones I've seen around the net.

I've spent about 4 straight days finding my way around foobar, making it work how I would like it to and also manually adding albums into my library. I previously used iTunes 7, I have ~5000 songs but most of them are horrible quality (<192kbps) so I'm adding the ones that are good quality into foobar, complete with proper foldername, tagging and album art. It's arduous bit it'll be much worth it in the long run!

I thought I'd just post a few small customization hints for other users:

Enable system tray notification; I know this is already in there but it took me a while to find it

File>Preferences>PanelsUI>Edit Layout

Scroll right to the bottom and uncomment the line beginning with $settray

Ignore leading "the" in artist sorting;

This is a biggie. I get massively annoyed when I just end up with a clump of "The" artists 3/4 of the way down my library. Alright, to do this in the Library Filter, go to

File>Preferences>PanelsUI-Library Filter

Select artist from the dropdown box, click on the second line which reads

$replace(%artist%,', ',|)

and add a function at the end, so it now reads

$replace(%artist%,', ',|%artist%,'The ',)

This will cause the filter to blank all occurences of 'The ' when sorting, yet still have the full artist name appear in the display. I haven't done this in Album List, but I assume the process is pretty much the same.

Now for the main track list window! (I'm pretty proud that I figured this one out, being 4 days new to foobar :D)

File>Preferences>PanelsUI-Sort/Group

Select Artist, choose modify. Now you should see this code at the top

$if($get(%album artist%),

Or something to that effect (I forgot if it was album artist or just artist or whatever, doesn't matter anyway)

Now add some code above that to make it look like this:

$put(sortartist,$replace(%album artist%,'The ',))

$if($get(sortartist),

The takes the album artist variable, blanks the 'The ' if there is one, then stores it in the variable sortartist, which is then used to sort the aritsts. The rest of the code in that box should remain untouched btw.

That's it, just save it and restart foobar if needed :D Of course if you wanted to, you could nullify other phrases like 'A ' (so 'A Perfect Circle' would sort as if it were 'Perfect Circle') etc and you could also use this same method to sort albums the same way.

Alright, and just a quick question if someone else could help me out here:

Is there any way to maximize the foobar window? Like, in every other application you click the middle button of the top-right corner three and it either makes the window smaller, or maximizes it to the entire screen. With foobar, it makes it a miniplayer or makes it about a half-sized window compared to my screen, why is that? Surely there is some code I could change to make it restore to the full size of my screen (1024x768) apart from the toolbar.

Also, I'm working on how to make library view default to the expanded Artists view, and also how to stop that view expanding the tree all the way down to tracks (because that's just pointless IMO)

Thanks and keep up the great work! :woot:

[stripedphantom]

Alright, and just a quick question if someone else could help me out here:

Is there any way to maximize the foobar window? Like, in every other application you click the middle button of the top-right corner three and it either makes the window smaller, or maximizes it to the entire screen. With foobar, it makes it a miniplayer or makes it about a half-sized window compared to my screen, why is that? Surely there is some code I could change to make it restore to the full size of my screen (1024x768) apart from the toolbar.

3 options:

You can edit the values of window size of those existing buttons, (look for "WINDOWSIZE" in the main prefs somewhere under //Mini player.)

Somehow, add an additional button. (I would look at the code of the existing buttons, copy it, move it around, and edit the function of the button.)

Or you can just unhide your titlebar and maximize the window.

[totriz]

dawxxx666 could you please add the playcount via foo_custominfo.dll ?

The original one changes tags of the files :(

you can use the original foo_playcount if you replace all the instances of %playcounter% with %playcount%

[stripedphantom]

There's a time limit for editing posts at his forum, I forgot the exact times.

Hey dawxxx666 or anyone else who can fix this, I have a problem with this part of my Foo config and I'm sure you guys ran across this problem too.

I was trying to fix it, but I failed : [

I don't like how that activelist overlaps my buttons. It sometimes makes my foo crash when I click on the wrong place to try to meximize again. I tried to truncate the activelist name, but couldn't make the "next" and "previous" playlist buttons to follow correctly.

Please help!

[Potatoz]

you can use the original foo_playcount if you replace all the instances of %playcounter% with %playcount%

It still erases some tags, ie lyrics :(

[dawxxx666]

There's a time limit for editing posts at his forum, I forgot the exact times.

Hey dawxxx666 or anyone else who can fix this, I have a problem with this part of my Foo config and I'm sure you guys ran across this problem too.

I was trying to fix it, but I failed : [

I don't like how that activelist overlaps my buttons. It sometimes makes my foo crash when I click on the wrong place to try to meximize again. I tried to truncate the activelist name, but couldn't make the "next" and "previous" playlist buttons to follow correctly.

Please help!

Good news: it's already fixed in 1.04, even fonts are displayed correctly ;)

dawxxx666 could you please add the playcount via foo_custominfo.dll ?

The original one changes tags of the files :(

In new version I'm using foo_playback_custom.dll - no problems with tags any more :)

[xankazo]

is it the same as playcount_mod? or if not, how does it work, by tags or database?

[dawxxx666]

You can choose between tags and database: