Powerful Foobar skin

Hamster · 1 Oct 2012 at 17:02

Hi Nate,
I'm trying out this skin, thanks. Looks good so far

I like to browse my music by folder structure (lots of folders on different drives)
I can't seem to find a way to show the list of folders on the left. Ideally I would like to be able to expand and collapse folders in this list by clicking on a '+' or '-' and when a folder is expanded, I'd like to see all the files within, including the file extension.
Is there a way?!

Nate Silvers · 2 Oct 2012 at 20:30

Yo Hamster you can do this by adding the library tree panel to the Artist pane instead of the Columns UI filter that way you can browse by folder as you wanted.

Hamster · 2 Oct 2012 at 20:34

Nate Silvers said:
Yo Hamster you can do this by adding the library tree panel to the Artist pane instead of the Columns UI filter that way you can browse by folder as you wanted.

Thanks Nate but I have no idea whatsoever how to achieve that. Any chance of some simple instructions please?!

Nate Silvers · 4 Oct 2012 at 01:04

Yeah man sure

Click the Artist tab
Right click the very left edge of the filter column (works on top and bottom edges too) and close panel
This leave a blank space so right click add panel > Library Tree

This can be done in preferences > columns UI layout too.

Hamster · 4 Oct 2012 at 01:07

Nate Silvers said:
Yeah man sure

Click the Artist tab
Right click the very left edge of the filter column (works on top and bottom edges too) and close panel
This leave a blank space so right click add panel > Library Tree

This can be done in preferences > columns UI layout too.

Thanks Nate

Will give it a go soon and let you know how I get on.

TwsT · 4 Oct 2012 at 16:52

like the look of foobar is it better than media monkey?

Hamster · 4 Oct 2012 at 18:28

Nate Silvers said:
Yeah man sure

Click the Artist tab
Right click the very left edge of the filter column (works on top and bottom edges too) and close panel
This leave a blank space so right click add panel > Library Tree

This can be done in preferences > columns UI layout too.

Got there, thanks

With the last skin I was using, any folder with files or subfolders within it would have a '+' symbol by the left of it and '-' by the files within. Any way to do that with this skin?

Nate Silvers · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:06

TwsT said:
like the look of foobar is it better than media monkey?

I've tried them all and I prefer foobar2000 no comparison.

Hamster said:
Got there, thanks

With the last skin I was using, any folder with files or subfolders within it would have a '+' symbol by the left of it and '-' by the files within. Any way to do that with this skin?

Ah I think I know what you mean, do you want it like this?

http://imageshack.us/a/img717/3428/92286813.png

Hamster · 6 Oct 2012 at 19:29

Nate Silvers said:
Ah I think I know what you mean, do you want it like this?

http://imageshack.us/a/img717/3428/92286813.png

That's getting closer to what I wanted, thanks. This is the sort of thing I mean:

I've now gone back to my previous skin (DarkOne). Although it's not as feature rich and nice looking as your skin, I'm just used to it. Thanks for all of your help

Nate Silvers · 6 Oct 2012 at 23:40

Ah yeah I get what you mean now, it's just a different way of using the syntax's. I go by tags myself

Hamster · 6 Oct 2012 at 23:43

Nate Silvers said:
Ah yeah I get what you mean now, it's just a different way of using the syntax's. I go by tags myself

I'm far too lazy to tag my collection properly. I would be doing it from now to eternity if I started trying to!!

Nate Silvers · 7 Oct 2012 at 00:12

Check out tag and rename, great program for mass tagging.

Nate Silvers · 19 May 2013 at 22:50

New version out.

marc2003 · 20 May 2013 at 02:12

hello bratman.

there is nothing new in your zip. the components are old and the .fcl files are dated 2011/2012....

Nate Silvers · 20 May 2013 at 02:20

marc!

Damn, everytime you help me out lol, I swear I uploaded it. I owe you again then

being the foobar nerd i am, i know this isn't true. some of the stuff here is well over 2 years out of date. you've also bundled core components which will most likely break foobar unless everyone is running the same version as you. you're also breaking the terms the foobar2000 license agreement by including them. and you should be able to handle window sizes dynamically and not have separate .fcl files.

and i haven't even tried it yet. expect more critique soon.

Ah I remember this, if I only I knew how much of a foobar nerd you really are, you're almost sad... jk

You never did give me any critique, please assault it so I can make it better and don't say use DUI.

marc2003 · 20 May 2013 at 02:46

Nate Silvers said:
please assault it so I can make it better

i will do when you sort out your DA page. there is no download link at all now.

i think you should post it as a new deviation so it gets bumped to the front page of new foobar themes.

Nate Silvers · 20 May 2013 at 03:00

Looks like I can't include your script folder as it contains a .exe and a rar file. OK I'll submit a new deviation, I was thinking of keeping the old one alongside.

marc2003 · 20 May 2013 at 03:21

i just thought a new deviation might attract more people. people aren't likely to browse the DA pages to find something that old. i suppose it can work if you post direct links on forums like this though.

i don't use DA myself so i can't say how it handles files. if it won't accept the .exe in the folder, the now playing script won't download artist art from last.fm.

Nate Silvers · 20 May 2013 at 03:59

Yeah I guess Br3tt might put it in the right place this time, not as a pre v1 skin.

Updated the link, DA is annoying. I've included your rar as your dropbox link, it's better that way for updates.

marc2003 · 20 May 2013 at 04:09

do not include your whole configuration folder like that. for people who don't know, it willl wipe out all their own personal settings to be replaced with yours. that's very, very bad.

the general rule of thumb is this: any panel specific settings will be saved in foo_ui_columns.dll.cfg. if you share this, you don't need to tell people to install the .fcl file as it's irrelevant. it's only since foobar v1 that components have their own .cfg files. columns UI is not aware of this because it's much older.

if there are global settings saved in the main preferences dialog, you might need to share a few of those but only if they are appearance related. never share the core/audio related ones.