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how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Hey everybody, new user signing up. I hope you can help with a really, utterly, totally n00b-question that hurts to ask (but my google -fu has not been strong today):

How do you open and modify the .cfg-file in foobar?   

how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #1 –
You don't.

how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #3 –
Delete it. That's the same as foobar2000 will do when you tamper with the .cfg file.

how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #4 –
Aha. Then maybe I got something wrong. I thought that the cfg-file was the main configuration file of foobar and that I could modify it at will. It that the .fcs-file I am thinking of?

Maybe I should give you more info. I have seen a very nice setup on this page (post #4) that I would like to use elements from. The guy (tool++) attached his .cfg-file so that everybody would be able to mimic his setup. I, however, would like to use only parts of it (the nifty pink highlighted album names), so I would like to peek into his cfg-file and nick the pieces I want. Apperantly I am not able to do that?

how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #5 –
You cannot use only parts of a cfg-file. Just either everything or nothing.

However, an fcs-file (configuration for columns UI) can contain only parts of the columns UI setup. But there as well you will most probably not be able to modify the file itself and therefore rely on what the creator provides.

Currently, foobar has no import/export system to only import/export parts of the config. So the short story is: you currently cannot do that with config-files.
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how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #6 –
grab the Single Column Playlist plugin.  Here is the wiki tutorial.  You can change the background color for the group display names (aka "the nifty pink highlighted album names") in the configuration window.

so i guess the long story is that you can do what you want to do, but it does not involve modifying the cfg file...

how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #7 –
Quote from: TotalClueslessNoob on
Hey everybody, new user signing up. I hope you can help with a really, utterly, totally n00b-question that hurts to ask (but my google -fu has not been strong today):

How do you open and modify the .cfg-file in foobar?   
Officially there's no possibility and if foobar were using an .ini text file, everybody would be glad and use/edit it. Same like with a gap killer dsp component (killing gaps of non gapless, non perfect audio files): There are religous wars around the issue, but if it's there, it's welcome.

I don't understand the argumentation "you idiots will nuke your configs and ask for support" anyway. What's the target audience of fb2k?

how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #8 –
Why are the devs so closed about this sorta thing?

Its really really annoying and very against the whole extensibility and interestingness of foobar.

There's even a damn checksum check which is ridiculous!

If people want to mess with their cfg and break their foo install then surely that should be their choice.
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how do I manipulate .cfg-files?

Reply #9 –
Quote from: Squeller on
I don't understand the argumentation "you idiots will nuke your configs and ask for support" anyway. What's the target audience of fb2k?
Do you understand the argument: "making it humanly editable will make it slower" then?