Foobar2000 - User Interface Gallery

[Anonymous]

PJPro:

The information that foobar holds for a user are things like playlists and GUI configurations. You'll find them (in Vista) at

C:UsersApp DataRoamingfoobar2000

That's the place I was looking but I couldn't find any files that looked like they were database files holding the library information. I assume Foobar has a database of what music it thinks is in the library but I didn't see anything that seemed a likely candidate. I was going to rename the database in the hope that Foobar would recreate it and load my music into it's library again. In the end I removed my music folder from Foobar, restarted, re-entered it, and restarted. That made it reflect the changes I had made in the file structure. Prior to that it was still displaying albums I had deleted.

 

[Anonymous]

Crikey, this thread is hilarious.

 

[kena]

Cronflow get its art from where its specified File > Preferences > Display Source - Can also be specified in Colums UI artwork tab and embedded / external artwork can be selected. N.B. Flac files don't support embedded artwork. You still haven't said what version of Foobar your using

In your Foobar settings directory - should be a Database file, Playback statistics file

 

[Anonymous]

Octopo:Crikey, this thread is hilarious.

Why exactly is that?

 

[kena]

You could try the following which should help in a directory-structure setup like you have , Do the following steps and substitute the sorting based on tags by a sorting based on your directory structure:

1. File -> Preferences
2. Display -> Columns UI -> Playlist View
3. Goto tab "Grouping" and change its values to:
1) Show groups = Tick box
2) Script = [%directory%]

 

[PJPro]

LeoL:I want all albums by the Beatles to appear together but I want any Beatles tracks that are part of a compilation to appear only when the compilation album appears.

To sort out Chronoflow, do the following (note this is different to before)

1) File | Preferences
2) Expand the node Display and click the Chronoflow node
3) Click the Album Source tab
4) Change the string in the Group By text box from to %album artist%|%date%|%album%
5) Change the string in the Sort By text box to %album artist%|%date%|%album%
6) Click the Display tab
7) Change the string in the only text box available to %album artist% - %date% - %album%
8) Click the Apply button.
9) Click the Album Source tab.
10) Click the Reload Sources button.
11) Click OK

Hope this helps.

 

[PJPro]

LeoL:.....
I'm sure this is because I didn't treat compilation albums differently than normal albums and I now realise this was a mistake. But I'm still not sure what I should have done or how to sort it out. Your last comment about "Various" I assume is the key. Should I set the album artist of compilation albums to various? dBpoweramp identified most of my compilation albums correctly so I just assumed it would deal with them in the way they should be dealt with, but only a small proportion of my compilation albums are filed under the directory "various artists". Most have appeared under the artists name.

The folder structure shouldn't matter a jot! The only difficulty will be telling the GUI where to find the ablum art.

I have a folder called "various" where all my compilation albums live, eg

Various
1990 A Night At The Opera
1991 Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
Super Hits of the 60s
....etc

If you look at the file tags for Super Hits of the 60s, you'll see something like

Artist Name - The Kinks
Track Title - Waterloo Sunset
Album Title - Super Hits of the 60s
Date - 1994
Genre - Pop
Album Artist - Various
....etc

So, the sort/display routines I provided above will group on Album Artist. For compliation albums the tag should be set to Various.

LeoL:
I'm also not really sure what information Foobar2000 is picking up from the directory structure and what it is picking up from the Tag information. For example, I thought Chronflow displayed the cover art from the Folder.jpg file in the directory, but when I went through the Tag info for a number of albums it actually showed different cover art for different tracks within the same album. As I used dBpoweramp to do the ripping, and it got the cover art, I don't see how this could be. But I'm also lost as to where the cover art is actually held. Is it just in the directory or is the jpg held in the Tag as well? I'm using MP3TAG to go through the albums and it is the program that is sometimes showing different cover art for different tracks within the same album. Chronflow is also not always displaying the cover art for a particular album even though there is a jpg in the directory.

Chronflow will use the information in the tags (as prescribed by the user in the config) to find cover art. I think it will also display embedded art. You can use MP3Tag to consolidate the album art for track files across albums.

 

[PJPro]

Octopo:Crikey, this thread is hilarious.

What do you use Octopo?

 

[Gerrardasnails]

PJPro:Octopo:Crikey, this thread is hilarious.

What do you use Octopo?
Forget FB2K PJ, have you seen J River Media Center?? I've just downloaded it and it looks fantastic. It also offers bit perfect playback.

 

[Anonymous]

Gerrardasnails:PJPro:Octopo:Crikey, this thread is hilarious.

What do you use Octopo?
Forget FB2K PJ, have you seen J River Media Center?? I've just downloaded it and it looks fantastic. It also offers bit perfect playback.

WOW I'm liking this media player. How do you activate bit perfect playback, use a plugin?

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Brisk:Gerrardasnails:PJPro:Octopo:Crikey, this thread is hilarious.

What do you use Octopo?
Forget FB2K PJ, have you seen J River Media Center?? I've just downloaded it and it looks fantastic. It also offers bit perfect playback.

WOW I'm liking this media player. How do you activate bit perfect playback, use a plugin?

Indeed. Apparently it's the computer audiophile's media player of choice in the States. I've had a play today and it's superb. The Theatre View is better than Windows Media Center and it plays everything audio and video!!

 

[Anonymous]

I've tried adding the ASIO4all dll to the plugin manager on the main display but it doesn't seem to get added. Have you used a different method for bit perfect playback??

 

[Anonymous]

Got it, tools>options>playback>output mode (ASIO)>device (ASIO4all)

I don't think I will ever need to close this program, super find.

 

[russ74]

The full version (J River Media Center 14) has WASAPI support built in if you use vista or 7. ASIO support for XP. Setting should be found in Tools - Options - Playback, may be slightly different as my 30 day trial has run out so I can't check.The freebee Media Jukebox 12 only has ASIO support. It's what I use combined with ASIO4All.

 

[russ74]

Beat me to it while I downloaded it again, install only for it to tell me my 30 days were up. Crafty lot know if you've tried it out before. $50 price tag puts me off the full version but it looked good. Media Jukebox is good if you only do music...EDIT - As is Foobar (don't want to get in trouble on this thread).

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Brisk:Got it, tools>options>playback>output mode (ASIO)>device (ASIO4all)

I don't think I will ever need to close this program, super find.

Glad you're pleased with it Brisk. I've bought a very small pc (Revo R3610) which will connect to my hifi and my tv and J River can be operated by a WMC remote control too.

 

[Anonymous]

Thats one neat looking PC! My PC is on the brink at the moment I might consider that little thing.

Idealy I would like to use a remote too with my present PC, you wouldn't happen to know if there is a IR reciever I can use with the logitech harmony 555 do you? I have a wireless keyboard and mouse so hoping it wont ploay tricks with that.

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Brisk:Thats one neat looking PC! My PC is on the brink at the moment I might consider that little thing.

Idealy I would like to use a remote too with my present PC, you wouldn't happen to know if there is a IR reciever I can use with the logitech harmony 555 do you? I have a wireless keyboard and mouse so hoping it wont ploay tricks with that.

I would have thought so - search for USB media center remote on Amazon.

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Gerrardasnails:Brisk:Thats one neat looking PC! My PC is on the brink at the moment I might consider that little thing.

Idealy I would like to use a remote too with my present PC, you wouldn't happen to know if there is a IR reciever I can use with the logitech harmony 555 do you? I have a wireless keyboard and mouse so hoping it wont ploay tricks with that.

I would have thought so - search for USB media center remote on Amazon.

Here is what I'm looking at now.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23064703@N05/?saved=1

 

[Anonymous]

PJPro:
The folder structure shouldn't matter a jot! The only difficulty will be telling the GUI where to find the ablum art.

I have a folder called "various" where all my compilation albums live, eg

Various
1990 A Night At The Opera
1991 Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
Super Hits of the 60s
....etc

If you look at the file tags for Super Hits of the 60s, you'll see something like

Artist Name - The Kinks
Track Title - Waterloo Sunset
Album Title - Super Hits of the 60s
Date - 1994
Genre - Pop
Album Artist - Various
....etc

So, the sort/display routines I provided above will group on Album Artist. For compliation albums the tag should be set to Various.

Chronflow will use the information in the tags (as prescribed by the user in the config) to find cover art. I think it will also display embedded art. You can use MP3Tag to consolidate the album art for track files across albums.

I've now worked out what is going wrong but I've no idea why. Although there is a tag called "ALBUMARTIST" with the correct values, "Album Artist" is blank for all albums and sorting is still happening by "artist" rather than "album artist". I've told it to sort by "album artist" so I don't know if it is defaulting to "artist" when it finds "album artist" blank.

What is the relationship between ALBUMARTIST and "album artist"? I see both when I right-click and select properties for a particular track in Foobar2000.

 

[PJPro]

The difference is a space. Repeat my instructions from earlier but try omitting the space.

 

[PJPro]

I've noticed, actually, that the new version of foobar2000 doesn't seem to update file tags when I edit them. This maybe because I have embedded the cover art into the flac files and have broken the file standard. Bummer!

 

[kena]

Refer to Formatting guide for syntax..it's %album artist% with a space...

 

[Andrew Everard]

Meanwhile I have selected a CD from the rack, dropped it into the player...

 

[kena]

Andrew Everard:Meanwhile I have selected a CD from the rack, dropped it into the player...

Nice idea but will never catch on with the youth of today