Guybrush

^Agreed, that looks good

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the latest iteration:

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You're awesome tore, sure enough it was a picture file that was the culprit. Muchas gracias, senor.

And noise, that does look awesome.

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^You're welcome gotjuice

Also, looking good, noise! Only change I'd do is put the quicksearch next to the menu toolbar, probably aligned to the right, but that might not look as good (looks like you have it hidden in a tab). I might experiment with a light theme using the old columns/NG playlists in an effort to bring down cpu requirement for a theme for the laptop.

A couple of questions to you, noise. What's that scroll bar? It looks neat .. I guess this is controlled by a windows theme? And how often does your foobar crash? Mine does on occasion and supposedly, mod track info panel is supposed to cause crashed and I suspect the last.fm biography/artist pictures component I have also causes these. A solution might be to script some of this (what you have in the mod track panel) in a wsh panel, but that sounds like it might be quite an undertaking.

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hey tore,

i actually changed this a lot since i posted it. well, just the colours. the gray was too much, i went back to plain white. i do like the brighter themes, even though they're a bit tougher on the eyes.

the scrollbar is indeed part of my windows visual style. it's called Nude for Windows 7, and you can find it at deviantart.

as for your other question - i can't recall foobar ever crashing, and i use it several hours every day. track info mod is supposedly problematic, but i've never had problems with it. i also use the biography panel frequently, and it never causes problems either.

i would prefer to use wsh panel, it is so much more flexible. but it's really touch to script, especially for an average guy like me

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Guybrush

Thanks for the answer!

I have something which causes my foobar to crash, but I'm not sure what it is. Your post has helped me narrow down the list of possible culprits.

I agree that WSH panel looks quite intimidating

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hey tore!

i came here looking for inspiration, but you've taken down all your screenshots

can you post a screenie of your latest config? specifically, i'm interested in seeing your Library Tree. i'm getting fed up with the limitations of Filters. it's nice having the ability to make pretty colors, but Library Tree offers so many more possibilities...

cheers

by the way, there's a new Playlist Organizer out that lets you sort playlists into a tree. check it out if you have not seen it yet - it's very cool!

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Sorry for the late reply of the year

I bought a new drive and since, I've been trying out different foobar themes, some I downloaded. The basic idea is that I've now got my whole music library on my new drive and also a range of portable foobar installs with different themes and components. Some of the themes are quite demanding, some of them are very lightweight. If I have my new drive connected to my main computer, I may use the more demanding theme(s) and if I have it connected to my few years old laptop, I run the portable foobar installs with the less demanding themes and fewer components.

So, I'm operating with a few different foobars these days. However, when I uninstalled my old foobar, I lost my library tree scripts which is why I haven't replied to you earlier. I've yet to rewrite them all to be honest because I've basically stopped using the tree altogether although I still like the functionality it gives. Instead, I use quicksearch and autoplaylists with certain search queries to find the music I wanna listen to.

The foobar themes I use the most now are these :

My own super-lite theme :



This foobar is the regular install on my home computer and handles the file associations. It plays files whenever I double click files. I don't use it for much else, f.ex I don't browse the library with it. Basically, if I download some music and wanna sample it quickly, that's when this is used and so it's not the "main player". As you can see, it's pretty basic and took about two minutes to create.


DarkOne v2.0 screenshot - this is not my theme, but I like it quite a lot and have used it for a little while I've tweaked it to fit my needs somewhat, like replacing filters with library tree and modifying some of the information it shows and order scripts, etc. It's basically the most demanding theme I make use of and has all the typical bells and whistles like lyrics, visualizations, biography stuff and so on.


This is a lite theme which is my own. It's just a 5 minutes strip down of my old theme and honestly, it doesn't look too nice and possibly, I'll just make a lite theme from scratch instead. I haven't used this much yet, but basically the idea was to have a foobar theme which lets me listen to the library without demanding much resources, so .. as few components as possible! It has a columns playlist and a quicksearch bar and a library tree.


I've got a lot more actually, some I've created and some of others and I still haven't tried out everything or gotten it exactly the way I want it, but I'm pretty happy with this way of doing stuff.

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hey no worries about the late reply. sorry to hear you lost all your scripts!

i actually gave up on the tree and went back to filters, it just works better for me. plus, since i started using the new playlist tree component, i have been making lots of autoplaylists which fulfills the same function.

i've been thinking of making a mini config too, but one that i can switch to after i decide what to listen to and set up a playlist.

for quick previews from my file manager i use Billy which is absolutely brilliant. it can be set to queue up all audio files in the directory it starts from, so opening a single song can pull up a whole album. it's great for listening to stuff before i have added it to my foobar library.
Billy - Sheep Friends

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Guybrush

Hey, Billy seems like just the thing, especially for the laptop Gonna try it out!

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