miscellanea Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 (edited) I have an album which is made up of various artists, I used to have the artist tag as various artists and the title tag had the artist of the track and the title of the song, how would I go about using masstagger to reformat the title tags which read like this David Bowie - Speed Of Life to make David Bowie the artist tag and remove everything before the S in Speed Of Life in the title tag?? you can select "Guess values from other fields" then, Source format: %title% Guessing pattern: %artist% - %title% Also I would like to get my tracks sorted right, just now I have them sorted by directory structure which works to a certain degree, however I would like every artists albums to be in chronological order i.e an album released in 1980 would be above one released in 1990. My old sort string was %artist%%date%%album%$tracknumber() which woks but now since I'm using the album artist tag for compilation disks it mixes up albums because it sorts by album first. What would I need to change to fix this??? if a file has ALBUM ARTIST tag, then uses it, else uses ARTIST tag. $if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber() Edited February 5, 2006 by miscellanea Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587155415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phixion Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Can anyone help me? I can't get the selection background to goto the colour I want it too, I can't find the option to change the colour - I've looked all through foobar2000 > Preferences > Columns UI > Display area :( Please help Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587156038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 ^ i have the same trouble there too i was going to post this earlier but i didn't thanks for reminding me. does anyone know?... i am also new to Foobar2000 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587156083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miscellanea Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Can anyone help me? I can't get the selection background to goto the colour I want it too, I can't find the option to change the colour - I've looked all through foobar2000 > Preferences > Columns UI > Display area :( Please help you can define colour like this in Globals tab - Colour, or Columns tab - Colour. text|selected text| background|selected background|[selected background non-focus]|... example: $if(%_isplaying%,0072dd|0072dd|,ff9900|ff9900|) 381000|190000|| Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587156287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambience Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Can anyone help me? I can't get the selection background to goto the colour I want it too, I can't find the option to change the colour - I've looked all through foobar2000 > Preferences > Columns UI > Display area sad.gifPlease help What you want to do is find the colour value. Go to Preferences -> Display -> Columns UI. Select the tab Globals. Then look around for values like: design= ,info= ,selected= , etc. There are hexidecimal values next to those, so you use the colour picker down the bottom to choose your colour which it will display in hexidecimals for you to replace the old values with. Here's a screenshot of the things you should be replacing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587156321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹ Posted February 5, 2006 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 5, 2006 you can select "Guess values from other fields" then, Source format: %title% Guessing pattern: %artist% - %title% if a file has ALBUM ARTIST tag, then uses it, else uses ARTIST tag. $if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber() Cool, thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587157231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Googintosh Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 I don't think I've changed my foobar setup for over a year same old crap. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587157267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moglenstar Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 updated :cool: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587157408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
urge Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 can I skin that? :huh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587157528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
YBG Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Well you can change the progress icon thing if you modify the VS. I have no idea what attribute that is though. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587157942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
urge Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 myfoooooobar! :cool: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587159355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nXqd Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 updated mine again How I get this toaster, mine is very small :no: . It appears short time ;) And I can't install custom play pack button :wacko: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587161378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Von_Beard Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 I don't think I've changed my foobar setup for over a year same old crap. i want it :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587161415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordtinuviel Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 how do i change the look of the playlist switcher??? also can i add a tab with the extended playlist generator???? how do i dd a database tab? thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587162424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Googintosh Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 how do i change the look of the playlist switcher??? also can i add a tab with the extended playlist generator???? how do i dd a database tab? thanks I don't think there is a uie plugin for the extended playlist generator. i used the uie album list plugin and just renamed its tab to 'database.' Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587162593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordtinuviel Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 ok thanks, and how about my other question: how do i change the look of the playlist switcher??? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587162674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordtinuviel Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 nevermind i figure out Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587164236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nXqd Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 Nobody can help ME :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587164258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹ Posted February 7, 2006 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 7, 2006 A couple of days ago I asked about a sorting string and miscellanea replied with this piece of code $if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber() This works almost exactly how I would like it to, however it places all the artists like "The Beatles" & "The Who" with the rest of the bands beginning with T. How would I go about modifying this so that it places "The Beatles" under B etc??? One final question, I'm using the album list panel which I have sorted by directory structure, it looks like this: If I use the sorting string above it looks like this: Is there anyway of sorting the album list panel so that it looks like the first pick but with the albums sorted the in chronological order etc??? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587164264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miscellanea Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 (edited) A couple of days ago I asked about a sorting string and miscellanea replied with this piece of code $if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber() This works almost exactly how I would like it to, however it places all the artists like "The Beatles" & "The Who" with the rest of the bands beginning with T. How would I go about modifying this so that it places "The Beatles" under B etc??? One final question, I'm using the album list panel which I have sorted by directory structure, it looks like this: If I use the sorting string above it looks like this: Is there anyway of sorting the album list panel so that it looks like the first pick but with the albums sorted the in chronological order etc??? I'm not completely for sure, but I'll go: $puts(album_artist,$if2($meta(album artist),$meta(artist))) $puts(album_artist, $if($strcmp($left($get(album_artist),4),'The '), $replace($get(album_artist),$left($get(album_artist),4),,), $get(album_artist))) $get(album_artist)|%date%|%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2)' - '%title% This code shows like this. It displays "The Cardigans" as "Cardigans". Also tested with "The Bangles", and it worked. Edited February 7, 2006 by miscellanea Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587165084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹ Posted February 7, 2006 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 7, 2006 Cool, thanks. I'll give it a try when I get back in from college. The above code will only work for the album list panel and not for the playlist window too???? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587165285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miscellanea Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 The above code will only work for the album list panel and not for the playlist window too???? It works with both. for the playlist window, Columns UI -> Columns -> Sort tab Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587165401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moglenstar Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 How I get this toaster, mine is very small :no: . It appears short time ;) And I can't install custom play pack button :wacko: well im using toaster for foobar2000 - here and for the toolbars you might need libpng*.dll and zlib1.dll .. both of which should go into the root of your foobar2000 folder e.g. c:\program files\foobar2000\ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587165442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹ Posted February 7, 2006 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 7, 2006 I'm not completely for sure, but I'll go: $puts(album_artist,$if2($meta(album artist),$meta(artist))) $puts(album_artist, $if($strcmp($left($get(album_artist),4),'The '), $replace($get(album_artist),$left($get(album_artist),4),,), $get(album_artist))) $get(album_artist)|%date%|%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2)' - '%title% This code shows like this. It displays "The Cardigans" as "Cardigans". Also tested with "The Bangles", and it worked. I really appriciate your work but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I would prefer it just to show the albums without having the year folders showing. Is that possible?? It works with both. for the playlist window, Columns UI -> Columns -> Sort tab I can't really use the code here as I'm using Navigator fcs and there is already code in there which I can't change. I would ideally prefer a code similar to $if2(%album artist%,%artist%)%date%%album%$tracknumber() which I can use in the autoplaylist sort section and would just remove the "the" from artists. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587165917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nXqd Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 well im using toaster for foobar2000 - here and for the toolbars you might need libpng*.dll and zlib1.dll .. both of which should go into the root of your foobar2000 folder e.g. c:\program files\foobar2000\ Thanks for your reply :yes: :blush: Aaaaahhhhhh :sleep: 0 a.m I must go to bed and sleep now :shiftyninja: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/175690-foobar2000-customization-topic/page/143/#findComment-587166055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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