* the new drag & drop feels a bit too sensitive--ending up with a lot of accidently-copied songs at the bottom of my playlist; dunno, maybe it's just me

* right-aligned columns have no padding on the right, unlike left-aligned columns, which looks like 1 space (intentional?).

* the amount of space the volume gets in the status bar has always seemed a bit too much (same in default UI). Even the longest it can be--"-z10.00 dB" barely takes up half of that space (the same cannot be said for the 'Total time of selected tracks'). This matters most for those of us who use a long status bar formatting (i.e. %_path%). Could you shorten it a bit?

Thanks for reading, and keep up the good work, musicx2 :]

Thanks for reading, and keep up the good work, musicx2 :]

suicide: use 4 colour codes, with | in between them. the order is text, selected text, background, selected background.

1) When set to minimize to taskbar instead of system tray, Foobar will not be focused on currently playing track when minimized and restored.  It will instead be focused on the top of the playlist.

2) If Foobar is in fullscreen mode when the program is closed, it will not restore to fullscreen mode when restarted, but a window with the same dimensions as fullscreen mode.  The beta 1 release seems to have partially addressed this, as the window mode is identical to fullscreen mode after a close and launch.  Still, might be nice if this could be cleaned up that little extra bit.

There are some additional options I'd really love to see implemented in ui_columns.  Most of them are straight from the default UI.  They include:

1) Ability to select "Do/don't show "now playing" submenu in rightclick menu".  I like my menus to stay thin.

2) Along similar lines, ability to select "Do/don't show keyboard shortcuts in menus".  That thin menu thing again.

3) Ability to select "Do/don't show volume in status bar".

4) Ability to select from the other default system tray icons included in the foobar2000.exe.  I know you can get them out of the exe and select them as a custom icon, but it would be mighty nice if there were an easier option built right into the config menu.

Since these are all options in the default UI config, I wonder if it would make sense to allow ui_columns to use all default UI config settings that are not overridden by options in the ui_columns settings.  If this were possible, it could free up some of the space on the second configuration page.  There would be no need, for example, to duplicate the system tray settings.

Thanks for all the time and work!

PS:  Your link for alpha 8 is not quite correct.  It points to foo_ui_column_07.dll.  It needs to point to foo_ui_columns_07.dll.

Now that it's reached beta status

* would be great if menu toolbar behaved the same as the default UI--buttons actually sink in when clicked, and you can click-and-release the mouse to make a selection (rather than 1 click to drop down menu and a 2nd to select)

* there's an extra separator at the top of the context menu; doesn't appear in the default UI so I doubt it's my conext menu config

* Home/End keys should highlight the first and last items (respectively) in the playlist, rather than just scrolling up or down (unless this was intentional?); now that I mention it, the Pg Up/Down keys as well

* probably related to above, Shift+(Home/End/Pg Down/Pg Up) doesn't work; you added those keys for navigation in alpha 2, think you could do the same for playlist item selection? :]

* don't know if it's the UI which does it

(and this sounds like it might be a bit harder to implement), but think you could change the current behavior of making multiple selections? the current way, for example, is if you select a track, hold shift and move the selection frame up and back down, everything that it touched remains highlighted (this is the normal behavior in the default UI as well and it has always bugged me). I think it'd be better if it would remain highlighting only the items from the point where you first held shift to the current position of the selection frame. The only point of current way (that I can see, anyway; correct me if I'm wrong) is if you wish to highlight tracks above, and then in the same selection, highlight some below; I can't picture many people using this 'wiping' fashion normally (?). The whole reason I point this out is because it's annoying when you accidently highlight too many items, you try to move back, and those items remain highlighted (though I guess you can manually deselect them with Spacebar, but still).

On a related note, Shift+Click selections seem a bit unintuitive. For instance, select a track, hold Shift, click above that track, and then click another track above that last one-- instead of highlighting all tracks from the initial track to the last one, it deselects all below the 2nd-clicked track and highlights from that point to where you clicked. Also, if you did the opposite, (select track > hold shift > click above > click below initial track) it will select everything instead of deselecting all above the 2nd track, etc.--the two seem switched around. (Err.. I'm probably explaining too much--everyone probably already knows the behavior that I'm talking about, and if not, mess around w/ the Windows gui ;p).

* would be nice if CTRL+Click could deselect tracks (what Spacebar already does)

* any chance on configuring the width of the Playlist list?

* right-aligned columns have no padding on the right, unlike left-aligned columns, which looks like 1 space (intentional?).

* the amount of space the volume gets in the status bar has always seemed a bit too much (same in default UI). Even the longest it can be--"-z10.00 dB" barely takes up half of that space (the same cannot be said for the 'Total time of selected tracks'). This matters most for those of us who use a long status bar formatting (i.e. %_path%). Could you shorten it a bit?

Edit: deselecting all when clicking in empty background would be nice too :] (same as default UI)

Hello thread,

- Balloon tooltips aren't closed when a new tooltip opens. Each time I skip two or more tracks, the first tooltip stays open and I have to close all others by clicking on them. Of course, this only happens when I don't want the tooltips to stay open, the timeout works correctly.

- Trying to drag'n'drop files crashes fb2k.

- Don't know if this bug is the fault of fb2k itself, but when I let the UI sort by descending length using a custom spec of $num(%_length_seconds%,10) I get some slightly distorted sorting. Something like 8:02, 8:03, 8:01, 7:59, 7:58, 8:01, 7:57, etc. What's funny is, that it works flawlessly in ascending order...

- I'd like to see the above length column custom spec to be a default setting (fixes hour-long mixes being grouped with one-minute clips when sorting by length)

- I'd like to see $if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%) as standard setting for the track column (fixes songs with no tags showing up as blank lines)

- I, too, would like to have a standard (non-toolbar) menu. Or at least something that has the same look-and-feel to it.

- I'd like to have a visually "sunken" playlist list. Maybe with an option to open it on the right instead on the left, to give fb2k an IRC-client-ish look.

Thanks for reading, and keep up the good work, musicx2 :]

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2) If Foobar is in fullscreen mode when the program is closed, it will not restore to fullscreen mode when restarted, but a window with the same dimensions as fullscreen mode.  The beta 1 release seems to have partially addressed this, as the window mode is identical to fullscreen mode after a close and launch.  Still, might be nice if this could be cleaned up that little extra bit.

I hope it was addressed in current version as mentioned above.

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- Don't know if this bug is the fault of fb2k itself, but when I let the UI sort by descending length using a custom spec of $num(%_length_seconds%,10) I get some slightly distorted sorting. Something like 8:02, 8:03, 8:01, 7:59, 7:58, 8:01, 7:57, etc. What's funny is, that it works flawlessly in ascending order...

And none of the people requesting descending sorting noticed that  Fixed for next version.

- Post crash log somewhere

- What type of files are you trying to drop?

- When exactly does it crash (when you let go of the left mouse button)?

Impressive!
Two suggestions:
1. Middleclick on last playlist tab should hide playlist-tab-bar (only if deleting playlist on middleclick activated).
2. I don't know if it is possible, but clicking on "Playlist->Create new playlist" in menu should make either playlist tabs or playlist listbox visible (if not activated already).

Thanks for this great UI!

Drop-down menus has zero length (w2k issue AFAIK).

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Drop-down menus has zero length (w2k issue AFAIK).

There's a workaround isnt there? I dont know how to fix it, apparently you can use up/down keys anyway.

I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Right-aligned text in status bar no longer works properly in beta 2 or beta 3.
This is my status bar dislay using the default UI:

i've notice a strange bug though. not sure why i didn't notice this in earlier versions, but i occasionally change foobar2000's volume with shift+ctrl+up/down to change the main playback volume.

with the columns plugin though, this doesn't work 

also, i've noticed ctrl+page-up/down to cycle through playlist tabs isn't working either ..

bug? or my fault?

I couldn't shorten the hight of my foobar more than picture attached scince I installed foo ui columns beta 1 and above.
( Only when I used foo ui interface, in case of default user interface, fully resizable.)

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I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Can you redownload and tell me if its fixed ?

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I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Can you redownload and tell me if its fixed ?