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post #31 of 255
6/11/06 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by hembergler
Where do most of you guys get your album art?
Someone turned me on to this sweet little Albumart Downloader program over at epizenter.net:

http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/

This is much faster than saving the folder.jpg files in your folders manually. It actually makes a folder.jpg file in each albums folder + it embeds the image into the id3 tags.
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post #32 of 255
6/11/06 at 11:44pm
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Originally Posted by mojo
Is there any way to have a sort of "on-the-fly" playlist? I want to just go around the music library, adding stuff to this playlist and have it played easily (like one click, or right mouse button and one click)
You can do this using any of the library things. Check their respective preferences.

Playlist Tree: file->preferences->media library->playlist tree panel->mouse & keyboard
Explorer Tree: file->preferences->media library->explorer tree panel->actions tab

I think foo_browser works the way you want by default.
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post #33 of 255
6/12/06 at 12:44am
wow my foobar looks nice now ..thanks HiFiRe
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post #34 of 255
6/12/06 at 8:22am
Yeah, get albumart automatically, I used 'albumartaggregator'. It found the majority of my album covers and stored the jpegs in my album folders.

For things it didn't find I used this:
http://www.slothradio.com/covers

^It uses amazon jpgs.
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post #35 of 255
6/12/06 at 3:35pm
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Originally Posted by Chri5peed
Yes, if I understand you correctly? Thats what I use.
Sorry, I don't think what I wrote was very clear reading it back. I currently use foobar as you describe, but I was wondering if there is a way to have a WinAMP/iPod style playlist where you can just quickly add individual tracks to it. In WinAMP, you can add tracks by dragging from the media library, or with a right click, or from the Explorer shell. The playlist isn't erased every time you click on a different artist in the media library, so it's easy to build up custom "mix tapes".

In the iPod, you can do something similar with the "on-the-go" playlist.

It's useful when you want to just line up a few random tracks you have had in your head to play, or when trying to create a mix of songs by different artists but from the same TV show etc.

There does not seem to be anything like that, but there is an SDK for foobar so I might have a look.
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post #36 of 255
6/12/06 at 3:48pm
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Originally Posted by HiFiRE
You can do this using any of the library things. Check their respective preferences.
I did take a look, but I'm still a bit confused.

I noticed that you can right click items in the Columns Playlist and drag them to another playlist. You don't seem to be able to disable the little menu that pops up and asks you what to do (I always want to add to the dropped-on list) but that's a minor niggle I guess.

The album view panel, which is really the only one I use, can only add to one default playlist. It would be nice if you could use middle mouse button to add to a specific playlist, but the best you can have is a new one based on the artist name.

What is needed is a context menu item or keyboard shortcut that can move from the "library view" playlist that the album view panel uses by default to a specific playlist ("on-the-fly"). An Explorer context menu item would be handy too.

I'm going to seriously take a look at the SDK and see if it's feasable. A better album list panel would be handy too.
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post #37 of 255
6/12/06 at 3:52pm
Sorry, one more:

Does anyone else have trouble with the album art panel? When I have multiple art files in one directory (front.jpg, back.jpg, sleve.jpg etc) it only displays the first one (typically the back) and using the "next source"/"previous source" does not do anything.
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post #38 of 255
6/12/06 at 6:41pm

Eureka!

I finally figured out how to do the "right click in the layout" thing and my Foobar now looks exactly like HiFire's.

No wonder this is so difficult; the method of changing things in the layout is almost impossible to describe, you just have to mess with it until you get it.

I got it, and I'm eternally grateful. Thanks again!!
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post #39 of 255
6/12/06 at 8:03pm
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Originally Posted by ComfyCan
No wonder this is so difficult; the method of changing things in the layout is almost impossible to describe, you just have to mess with it until you get it.

I got it, and I'm eternally grateful. Thanks again!!
Thats how to properly use foobar. Muck about with things.

If you change something, you can do a 'cold restart' to avoid saving settings and reverting back foobar.
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post #40 of 255
6/12/06 at 9:41pm
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Originally Posted by mojo
The album view panel, which is really the only one I use, can only add to one default playlist. It would be nice if you could use middle mouse button to add to a specific playlist, but the best you can have is a new one based on the artist name.
You can configure a middle click (among others) to send (add or replace) songs to the active playlist. Why not use that setting? That way if you want to send tracks to a specific playlist, make it active, and middle click in the Playlist Tree panel.

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What is needed is a context menu item or keyboard shortcut that can move from the "library view" playlist that the album view panel uses by default to a specific playlist ("on-the-fly"). An Explorer context menu item would be handy too.
Think of the playlists that the Playlist Tree panel creates as the on-the-fly playlist. If you want to keep the playlist is creates, just rename it. There's no explorer context menu because the tree is an abstraction.
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post #41 of 255
6/13/06 at 1:56am
I hearby nominate HiFire as Headfi'er of the Month, with all rights and privileges attendant thereto.
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post #42 of 255
6/13/06 at 2:56pm
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Originally Posted by HiFiRE
You can configure a middle click (among others) to send (add or replace) songs to the active playlist. Why not use that setting? That way if you want to send tracks to a specific playlist, make it active, and middle click in the Playlist Tree panel.
I see what you are saying, and it does indeed work. The issue I have is that, to add individual songs you have to expand out the artists name in the album list panel. It's already hard to scroll properly with lots of artists (but that's the fault of Windows, not foobar).

But as you say, it works, thanks.
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post #43 of 255
6/13/06 at 3:34pm
Wow... I didn't know that Foobar could get that pretty.

As for the technical/sonic setup, I hear there are some changes from 0.83... no kernal streaming or is it ASIO? Anyone know of a good guide for that side of the setup? [for 9.0]
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post #44 of 255
6/13/06 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by mojo
The issue I have is that, to add individual songs you have to expand out the artists name in the album list panel. It's already hard to scroll properly with lots of artists (but that's the fault of Windows, not foobar).
Or the size of your monitor!
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post #45 of 255
6/13/06 at 3:39pm
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Originally Posted by mojo
The issue I have is that, to add individual songs you have to expand out the artists name in the album list panel. It's already hard to scroll properly with lots of artists (but that's the fault of Windows, not foobar).
Or the size of your monitor!
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