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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Library Tree Discussion
Last post by anamorphic -
^ You still have to download them to a local cache. Install Biography script to do that. Right-click in Biography to open Options > Server Settings > Download tab to set where it saves the Last FM > Photos. Then configure the same folder path in foobar Preferences > Display > Artist tab. Make the path ending in ...

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$meta(artist,0)_*.jpg

This will pick up the first image found alphabetically. (Which may not always be the best looking one, but you can always manually save/rename one to artist.jpg, and put that path first in the list to give it priority)
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Files won't scan no matter what
Last post by Case -
You probably need to explain your problem with some details or hope someone with better guessing powers joins the conversation.

Media Library used to permanently reject files it couldn't decode at the time they were first seen.
For example if your music library contained .DSF files and you didn't have a DSD decoder installed when they were first scanned, those files weren't included in the media library even if you later installed a decoder. Fixing this used to require steps like manually nuking the library's database files under foobar2000 profile. But it has long since been fixed.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: M-Tags Issue
Last post by ApacheReal -
Quote from: DaywalkerXXX on
foobar2000 v2.25 preview 2025-05-14 and M-Tags
For me
Bitrate is displayed
Codec, sample rate, encoding, and channels
are not displayed.
When played with foobar internet radio, everything is correct.

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foobar2000 v2.25 preview 2025-05-14
The problem is in the management of your skin information.

The information is returned correctly.

See video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6bpViG07iU
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Columns UI appearance
Last post by sq68 -
Quote from: anamorphic on
"I love it when a plan (theme) comes together" :))  (This one is not available for download... yet, just sharing ideas)

This theme was inspired by marc2k3 posting screenshots with just one panel in the foobar window and nothing else - I always thought it looked so clean. So I thought how about a theme that hides all library navigation on drop menus (right-click) along the top, that also double as tabs for that view (left-click), leaving as much room as possible in the window to display music.

Firstly the window is slightly transparent to see the full-size background visualization and artist wallpaper (when I download them) - thanks to Spectrum Analyzer by pqyt. This is placed in a pop-up window - thanks to Flowin by ohyeah, along with all the drop menus, which are turned on/off by a simple javascript button (thanks to SMP by theqwertiest).

A few quick notes about each layout/view ...

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Track tab has full-width Playlist View, 3 x cycling artist photos (thanks to Biography by wilb) for up to 2 primary artists (with large text / thanks to JSP3 Text Display by marc2k3), or 1 primary artist + 2 "featured" artists photos (medium text), or combination of primary artist + "featured" + "performed by" band. Then the lower section displays album info when stopped, or track info when playing (large text), with additional album/track credits underneath (small text). These panels are reused in other views...

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Genre tab I wanted to make use of the genre icons made for my previous theme (this time in two SMP Library Trees by wilb). Library Tree is not quite as accurate at assigning the correct icon as original Facets, but has other advantages like highlighting the playing genre/styles.

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Date tab on the left has a chronological discography by release type (thanks to the classic EsPlaylist by ssenna) - if I can draw your eye to the text under the blue dates. I love being able to see what the artist released on the specific dates, like a timeline of complete artist works. The possible release types (as tagged) are Album, Single, EP, Remix, Soundtrack, Compilation, Concert, Video, but also Features On and Appears On for appearances on other albums.

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Type tab, same sort of thing only grouped by release type first and in grid format. The idea was to replicate Spotify groups, though the title formatting to make it work is quite messy. Another instance of Biography showing "item properties" on the right.

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Artist tab shown with the Track drop menu. This and Album tab have full window Biography scripts. All the drop menus are Library Tree, except for ...

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Video tab shown with the Playlist drop menu. Playlist menu is a script from Eole (used with permission) that I modified a little to resemble the other menus. I save music videos and concert videos as tag files (thanks to m-TAGS by luigimercurio), or let the Find & Play script do that for me (on Find tab), and then switch to Video tab to watch the stream (thanks to Youtube Source by 3dyd).

Finally there are my own mods of JSP3 scripts for the lower status bar showing selected / playlist totals, and current playback order / skip status buttons up top (right-click also drops a menu).

Pretty fun theme. Using drop menus makes for quite diverse browsing, since you can quickly bring up anything on any view. And when multiple menus are open it works like Re/Facets filtering the next list... then drop the playlist menu to drag-n-drop anything to a playlist. This is my first go round making a Columns UI theme and a big thanks and credit to musicmusic for making the thing possible. And like all things foobar I'm not finished, still need to add a Lyrics tab...

You gotta love foobar! (thanks to Peter!)  8)

Edit: Even more drops ...
Could you please explain how you achieved the background visualization effect? A very attractive theme proposal - when can we download it? Thank you!