[Foobar] Foo AvA by dawxxx666

[armitage]

First, thanks for the new release which is really incredible.

I also do not have buttons on the mini player mode on Vista 64, and also the button allowing to hide the scrollbar, add folders... on the normal player. Those buttons works but do not display, which are pretty annoying.

[larryTM]

hi !!

I'm in love with this AVA, thanks, Mr dawxxx666.

Every thing is allright except I can't find the size of the "artist.jpg". I tried several and the result is always the same.

The top is missing..

Please, have a look and may be you know what to do. Thank you.

[dyniaq]

gently-cz

I'll help U with the code but first specify where exactly U want the ratings stars to appear. U could also post the code here

(only fragment that displays rating stars). Or U could think by Urself and write the code. So here's a little tip for U:

try to use $calcwidht() and $calcheight() functions. If U fail post reply. I'll try to write some code for U...

larryTM

RMB at Library Filter and Settings -> Display formats -> artist. Find this part of code:

$if($fileexists($getpvar(MyArtistPath)),
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,71,95),71,,,,,5,5,$getpvar(MyArtistPath),NOKEEPASPECT)
	,
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,71,95),71,,,,,5,5,images\fooAVA\LF\noartist.png,NOKEEPASPECT)
	)

and change two values 95 (width) and 71 (height, second appearence of this number in code) accordingly to Ur needs

[larryTM]

larryTM

RMB at Library Filter and Settings -> Display formats -> artist. Find this part of code:

$if($fileexists($getpvar(MyArtistPath)),
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,71,95),71,,,,,5,5,$getpvar(MyArtistPath),NOKEEPASPECT)
	,
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,71,95),71,,,,,5,5,images\fooAVA\LF\noartist.png,NOKEEPASPECT)
	)

and change two values 95 (width) and 71 (height, second appearence of this number in code) accordingly to Ur needs

Thank you dyniaq for your answer.

I tried this (I want 102x85) but nothing changed :

$if($fileexists($getpvar(MyArtistPath)),
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,85,102),71,,,,,5,5,$getpvar(MyArtistPath),NOKEEPASPECT)
	,
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,71,95),71,,,,,5,5,images\fooAVA\LF\noartist.png,NOKEEPASPECT)
	)

The "noartist.png" image you can see under mine is 71x95, as we can see in this code. Is it right ?

I scaled mine to 71x95 and it doesn't match.

Wher have I done something wrong ?

Edited January 25, 2008 by larryTM

[dyniaq]

I thought my clues was quite clear but... Here's the code:

$if($fileexists($getpvar(MyArtistPath)),
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,85,102),85,,,,,5,5,$getpvar(MyArtistPath),NOKEEPASPECT)
	,
		$imageabs2($ifequal($getpvar(ArtistScale),1,85,102),85,,,,,5,5,images\fooAVA\LF\noartist.png,NOKEEPASPECT)
	)

[larryTM]

Yes, you were clear and I thank you...

My image is 85x102, the code is now ,1,85,102),85 and nothing change...

forget it, I lost this battle with foobar

[Fraggerr]

Hey guys. Love the skin and great work as usual. I am having a couple problems though.

I cannot for the life of my figure out how to get rid of the scroll bar?

Also, The lyrics will not show up by themselves. Is it because I have more then one lyric component?

I usually have to do a online search for it then download and save it then it will work.

Anyway for it to fetch lyrics by itself?

[gently-cz]

gently-cz

I'll help U with the code but first specify where exactly U want the ratings stars to appear. U could also post the code here

(only fragment that displays rating stars). Or U could think by Urself and write the code. So here's a little tip for U:

try to use $calcwidht() and $calcheight() functions. If U fail post reply. I'll try to write some code for U...

I tried what you suggested, but got lost on the way.

I want the rating just where it is in the screenshot. now its made with abs position, so when i resize it it moves somewhere else and is not centered like the others

here is the part from config with rating. I managed these abs values, but Im really lost with the relative.

Really thanks a lot for your help Dyniaq

/Rating

$imageabs2(57,13,0,0,0,0,$sub(%_width%,280),640,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\$if(%rating%,$ifgreater(%rating%,5,5,%rating%),0)s1.png,)

$imagebutton($sub(%_width%,279),640,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\sblank.png,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\$ifgreater(%rating%,0,0s_h.png,1s_h.png),$ifequal(%rating%,1,TAG:SET:rating:0,TAG:SET:rating:1),TOOLTIP,****)

$imagebutton($sub(%_width%,268),640,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\sblank.png,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\$ifgreater(%rating%,1,0s_h.png,1s_h.png),TAG:SET:rating:2,TOOLTIP,Not bad)

$imagebutton($sub(%_width%,257),640,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\sblank.png,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\$ifgreater(%rating%,2,0s_h.png,1s_h.png),TAG:SET:rating:3,TOOLTIP,Good)

$imagebutton($sub(%_width%,246),640,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\sblank.png,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\$ifgreater(%rating%,3,0s_h.png,1s_h.png),TAG:SET:rating:4,TOOLTIP,Very good)

$imagebutton($sub(%_width%,235),640,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\sblank.png,images\fooAVA\rating_stars24\$ifgreater(%rating%,4,0s_h.png,1s_h.png),TAG:SET:rating:5,TOOLTIP,Mega hit)

)

[ubik66]

thank you dawxxx for finally trying out foobar, bets skin i've seen

Fisrt, i just started to use foo, there isn't much i like to change about fooava, it's about perfect for my needs

Question i want to ask, when i'm playing various albums, i would like to see the artists in my titleformat - playlist view (library view)

My guess is that now i have something like %tracknumber%. %title% %playcount%

How can i change that to %tracknumber% %artist% - %title% %playcount% ?

For all albums, not just various

thx

[Mr. Finch]

OK, first of all..dawxxx666...BIG THNX for this wonderful work and most complete "Finish" for Foobar.

I never used Foobar before but this day i see your work and now it is my First Player. Thanks Thanks

and big respect to you.

Other thing, my english is not the best :( and i test all what i found in Preferences but i can't see a Cover/Albumart for my Songs

and i can't found a Option for Search automatically Cover" or other?!?

Example, in CDA CD Art Display is a Button (Search Cover) and a Folder for that.

In your Config i miss this.

Is there a Trick to add Covers? Must i add Covers manuell per Hand?

Please help me.

Best thanks and have a nice Day @all.

[Amoz]

Okay I'm trying this kind of customized foobar for the first time and so far I'm liking it quite a lot. But for me there's a little problem and that is the fonts that I can use don't show korean letters. So I'm asking is there anyway for me to change to a font that does or do I need to change back to my original foobar config?

actually forget that, should have searched first..

Edited January 30, 2008 by Amoz

[synt]

in fooava 1.03 there was a visualisation choice, in the up left corner.. now it's gone and i can't look at vis when i'm stoned :( :( :| how to get them back?? :blink:

[hjf288]

This is very nice... I am converted to Foobar now lol

One question how do you get the song title displayed under album art to scroll?

[Danxter]

Hi, very good work! I love it!

For those who have the problem of no buttons in vista 64 there are some parts of the code to change :

First of all, go to the mini player mode, right-click>settings.

Then, you will be able to change some things in the wonderful work of dawxxx666

Find the part called :

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// PerTrack

$ifequal($getpvar(MiniMode),1,

$puts(bordx,48)

$puts(bordy,5)

$puts(lgcover,101)

$puts(xoffset,110)

Then, you will see some lines with links to pictures like that :

$imageabs2(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,\images\fooAVA\mini\pause+2.png,alpha-255),

you will recognize them with the term "mini" in the adress

The only thing to do is to delete the "\" in the adress.

Buttons will appear!

That's all!

PS : excuse my english cause I'm french

[Danxter]

Hum sorry but the tip works only if you never quit foobar. I tried to do the changes in "FOOAvA_1.04.pui" but if I do this, the UI doesn't want to start!

Some other options are not saved when I quit Foobar : does someone know how to do?

[r4b]

Help?

(Disregard the yellow, I did that)

[armitage]

Thanks for your tip Danxter, it worked great, I did that every single time I saw /images, since I had no buttons on mini mode but also I had not the buttons like the one allowing to reduce the scroll bar.

For my part, the settings remain correct even if I close foobar.

So once again, thanks, now it is really perfect.

[brat81]

First would like to say awesome skin been using it for quite some time now.

But there is one problem i don't like about the new skin is the way the play list is sorted for some reason all my mixed cds like Ministry of Sound cds are all over the place like so in the picture below.

Click here for image

How can i get it back to how it use to be or even get all my mixed artist cds to work with this new playlist view.

any help would be awesome.

[Danxter]

Message to Dawx : please release a version without "/images" but "images". It would be so great! Thanks!

[hjf288]

The cut off text makes me a sad panda.. It would be cool if next version you could have text scroll if it exceeds the boundary

Edit: Posted wrong picture

[Danxter]

So, it's good I had just to launch the soft in "admin mode". All is good now :)

Except one point : when I launch Foobar2000 into miniplayer mode, the button is the pause one and when I click it, it doesn't launch play. In the same idea, when it's playing the displayed button is the play one and when it's paused, the pause one is displayed.

It would me more logical that when it's playing, we click the pause button to pause.

[Amoz]

But there is one problem i don't like about the new skin is the way the play list is sorted for some reason all my mixed cds like Ministry of Sound cds are all over the place like so in the picture below.

You need to add Album Artist to tags. For example for the ministry of sound albums, Album Artist could be "Ministry of Sound".

[BKT]

The cut off text makes me a sad panda.. It would be cool if next version you could have text scroll if it exceeds the boundary

Edit: Posted wrong picture

That's not really a good idea, cause it will have to check & update & draw title,album,etc every second. and it may not possible to code it to make it act as button like now (click at album will search the same album,ETC) with scroll text.

My suggest is, to reduce text size to fit the line depend on how long the text is. and if it too long, cut it too made it shorter and add a ... or something else behind it and add a padding to not make the text go hit the border. (this apply to button like the artist name) Which I have modded my FooAVA 1.03 (yes.. the old version) to do this and added ability to have my album&artist name act as a button like in 1.04 with scaleable text size depend on how long it is too. (and another thing like ability to show back cover,track number color change depend on play count, ETC and tweak to made it faster & suit my need.)

Notice the smaller title text size?

But with a very long name and use a small text size, it may look a bit unbalanced and a bit ugly. But i like it better than to have it cut too short. but of course you can choose minimum text size and how long it will cut.

Edited February 3, 2008 by BKT

[bzhSlap]

What do U mean? It works fine with me, when i.e. song at first position in playlist is playing and I sroll down to the last one

and then click Show Now Playing fb2k highlight the first one and sroll all playlist to show highlighted song. If this feature doesn't work with Ur fb2k

the reason could be wrong version on some component, probably panelsUI as some ver. could've some bugs with Show Now Playing feature.

iAVA was only a project, maybe abandoned already, need to ask Dawid, which meant to be a light and low resources consuming version.

fooAVA 1.04 is completely different in assumption - it's a little "show off" version which doesn't give a crap about resources. It meant to be nice

and highly functional and user friendly. So... fooAVA 1.04 is NOT compatible with iAVA

It took me some time to answer 'cauz I tried to solve my problem by following the dawxxx666 instructions: same components and so forth. But still, everything works ok except the automatic scrolling when switching from one song to another one in the playlist (typicaly in the shuffle mode when you go from the top to the lower part of the playlist for example). So basically, I have to look at the playlist by myself by using the "show now playing" button. Does someone has an idea?

A pity that fooAva1.04 is not compatible with iAva which was a really nice, original and promising skin.

[Beyond Aphelion]

I have a quick question. I installed fooava and all the necessary components successfully and foobar looks great. However, once I apply the fooava settings I want (from the bottom right settings button):

Such as:

- blue theme

- transparent buttons in titlebar

- album list

- album art panel

- lyric show (autoscroll)

- channel spectrum analyser

- no bottom bar

- w/background mode

- playlist extra info (non)

- sort order (artist / date / album)

It works perfectly at first. But if I close foobar and reopen it, all my changes are lost. I would much prefer if I didn't have to change all these settings every time I open foobar as it is quite annoying. Does anybody know what is going on here? I attempted to change some settings from within the preferences panel, but the changes do not stick, and, honestly, I do not think I know enough about what I am doing.

And my final question is... Do my mp3s have to have an album specified in their tags to be listed under an album art list within my playlist? I have all my artists separted into folders with a Folder.jpg for each (there is no particular album for each artist), but I would like artists to show up as an album would in my playlist. Would I simply need to add a generic album tag to my mp3 files?