[Foobar] Foo AvA by dawxxx666

[dawxxx666]

Playing around with channel spectrum panel:

;)

[xankazo]

nice! it's so much better this way!

[Potatoz]

Thanks again dawxxx666, I didn't have foo_playback_custom installed :o

And btw maybe you could make this:

so that users won't have to choose between ratings and playcount?

... And playcount still erases embed lyrics :(

Edited November 15, 2007 by Potatoz

[dawxxx666]

... And playcount still erases embed lyrics :(

I didn't notice this problem when using foo_playback_custom.dll

[xankazo]

I haven't noticed it even with foo_playcount_mod... all my tags remain intact. they only change from ID3v2.3 to ID3v2.4 and some apps and players don't recognize that format well. could that be the problem?

[Potatoz]

Well, I've dealt with the tags. Here is how it was: _____________and now:

Although there is still "Comments" problem, but it's not a major trouble.

[Vivek1984]

Alright I've almost got this configured to how I like it. I'm still getting used to foobar's intents on using playlists for everything, whereas when I used iTunes previous to this it would just play everything out of one main library window.

I've unhidden the title bar, and set it to 'unmaximized' which allows the miniplayer to display properly after a minimize. I've used the foo_notaskbar.dll to hide it from the taskbar, giving the same effect as if it were minimized. This is highly important to me since if you minimize foobar with PanelsUI at all, when the song changes the title bar and system tray tooltip don't update to reflect it. This way, the window isn't actually minimized but is still hidden from sight. I've also incorporated the supposedly "banned" components foo_fullscreen.dll and foo_snap.dll, which work a treat. foo_snap keeps the foobar window pinned to the edges of the screen more cleanly, which makes it easier to position my miniplayer in the top-left corner. With foo_fullscreen, I've set the shortcut key to Alt+Enter (keeping with most other media players), so when I want to use foobar's full view I click on the system tray icon to focus it, then hit Alt+Enter to bring up the maximized screen. Then I just use Alt+Enter to go back to miniplayer mode, but I've found that the focus needs to be in the currently active playlist to activate the shortcut key properly.

In case I need to use the min/max buttons designated in the top right corner, I've set the pseudo-maximize button to expand to my screen's width/height instead of the default 700x550 (or whatever it was). But I avoid using these buttons as they mess with the above mentioned method.

One other thing, I still haven't got Library Filter working -perfectly- but I have managed to get Artists to expand done only to the album covers. It's not completely elegant and definitely needs further tweaking, but it functions as expected. Go to your library filter panel, rightclick > settings > choose Album-Artist. You need to comment out this code as shown. The lines that are not commented shouldn't be commented.

//$if(%_expanded%,
//	$drawrect($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,87,111),4,74,74,pencolor-120-120-120 brushcolor-null)
//	$if($fileexists($getpvar(MyCoverPath)),
//		$imageabs2(72,72,,,,,$ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,88,112),5,$getpvar(MyCoverPath),NOKEEPASPECT)
//	,
//		$imageabs2(72,72,,,,,$ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,88,112),5,images\fooAVA\LF\nocover.png,NOKEEPASPECT)
//	)
//	$imageabs2(72,72,,,,,$ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,88,112),5,images\fooAVA\LF\smoke.png,NOKEEPASPECT alpha-150)
//,
	$drawrect($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,87,111),4,$eval(%_height%-8),$eval(%_height%-8),pencolor-120-120-120 brushcolor-null)
	$if($fileexists($getpvar(MyCoverPath)),
		$imageabs2($eval(%_height%-10),$eval(%_height%-10),,,,,$ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,88,112),5,$getpvar(MyCoverPath),NOKEEPASPECT)
	,
		$imageabs2($eval(%_height%-10),$eval(%_height%-10),,,,,$ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,88,112),5,images\fooAVA\LF\nocover.png,NOKEEPASPECT)
	)
	$imageabs2($eval(%_height%-10),$eval(%_height%-10),,,,,$ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,88,112),5,images\fooAVA\LF\smoke.png,NOKEEPASPECT alpha-150)
//)

Then go to File>Preferences>PanelsUI>Library Filter>Select 'Artist' from the dropdown box.

Select the line that has something to the effect of 'discnumber track number title'. Delete this line by clicking 'Delete' on the right hand side of it, then click Close. You're done.

Anyway you can play around with that. Thanks for the best layout I've ever seen dawxxx! Looking forward to the next version with the 'CD cases' graphic!!

[lord.maciek]

where can i download the 1.04 beta? i can't find it

[dawxxx666]

I'm not sharing any beta at this moment

[theinr1ch]

I was trying to organize my playlist and was messing around in the Sort/Group By menu to arrange my playlist, and I think in the Edit option I clicked or changed an option and now it changed the appearance of the player a bit

Is how it looked

Is how it is now, I want it back to the original way.. what do i do?

[Vivek1984]

I think what you've done is set to sort/group by Track, as opposed to Artist / Date / Album as what you had before. To rectify this:

Right click on your playlist > sort/group > none.

Then do the same again, but instead of 'none', select Artist / Date / Album.

^^

If you were referring to aesthetic differences, my eyes can't spot them atm. ^^;

Edited November 18, 2007 by Vivek1984

[:No-Frost:]

I had a little bit problem here:

First I can only play the music files in this mmm visual style:

And if I choose this:

I can't play anything and I see those bars at the upper part showing the way I want to see the play list...

Is there a way to remove those and just leave the playlist and a way to be able to play the songs in that configuration???

[xankazo]

do you have all required components installed? check the first post and see...

[:No-Frost:]

do you have all required components installed? check the first post and see...

Yes I did it...

I think I managed to fix my issue...

[theinr1ch]

That did not fix it :s I wish I knew what had changed cuz its annoying me now

[Saran]

First I want to thank dawxxx666 for his effort for making and generosity for sharing such a nice mod :yes:

Secondly, I'd like to ask if anyone experienced (random) playback problems on Vista (and if you could help me solve them)?

AVA 1.03+ was running perfectly on XP and, when I installed Vista, I just copied (the previously backed-up) foobar2000 folders from Program Files and Application Data to the new locations.

All was the same (settings etc.) and fine as on XP, but after some playing time problems started occurring randomly :(

Once it just breaks during moving on to next song, once while selecting some song from the playlist manually etc.

When the error comes, I get these notifications:

Any ideas what I can change to fix this?

[xankazo]

Same thing happened to me when I changed from XP to Vista. I couldn't sort it out so I ended up reconfiguring foobar all over again. I don't think it is aVa's or PanelsUI's fault, though.

[:No-Frost:]

I just wanna know how to make foobar minimized with this config...

Mmm I mean... if you look the 1.03+ screen shot at the bottom left side is a minimized version... How do you minimize to that+++

Dman my english sux xD...

[xankazo]

with the middle windows button, the one that should be "maximize" for most windows apps.

[Saran]

Same thing happened to me when I changed from XP to Vista. I couldn't sort it out so I ended up reconfiguring foobar all over again. I don't think it is aVa's or PanelsUI's fault, though.

Thanks, this helped :)

[:No-Frost:]

with the middle windows button, the one that should be "maximize" for most windows apps.

Oh thanks ^^...

[Radical Pan]

Hi there, I love your skins dawxxx666, but I listen mostly to Asian music, and I can't get to read Japanese/Chinese/Korean characters in version 1.03, instead, I only see boxes. What can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance.

[Deavy]

Hi there, I love your skins dawxxx666, but I listen mostly to Asian music, and I can't get to read Japanese/Chinese/Korean characters in version 1.03, instead, I only see boxes. What can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance.

Dude! font that used in config don't support any encoding except english :)

So if you want to see Japanese/Chinese/Korean characters just change fonts in config manually ;)

[Punio4]

dawxxx666?

Could you please include SegoeUI as a font option?

[x9248]

Dude! font that used in config don't support any encoding except english :)

So if you want to see Japanese/Chinese/Korean characters just change fonts in config manually ;)

Default settings displayed my Japanese music files just fine without having to change anything at all...