RE: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

[garym]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Cheers Gary.

Have just tried it out.

So it displays the real-time duration-count as per screenshot, please?:

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Paul

I can never see your screenshot postings. They always say "attachments pending approval" and don't work for me. But it seems like oggy can see them.

But you've tried it correct. If so, you should be seeing real time duration count down next to track no and name. Are you not seeing it. Try posting a link to your images via dropbox or something.

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

try this. should work.

Cheers Gary.

Have just tried it out.

So it displays the real-time duration-count as per screenshot, please?:



Paul

[garym]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Cheers,

I tried it again substituting the rogue characters, but I still don't be able to seem to get it going I am afraid?:

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Because of the slight issue with the typos created by this forums text formatting, perhaps you might be so kind as to PM me the 'string' at:


I can post a screenshot for everyone once it's working!

Thanks a lot.

try this. should work.

%track number% '- '%title% %playback_time%/%length% '['%artist% - %album%']' %codec% %bitrate%kbs |%__bitspersample% bits|, '['RG Album %__replaygain_album_gain%/ RG Track %__replaygain_track_gain%']' $if(%hdcd%,HDCD = YES)

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Also, I noticed the forum changed my * to *. Use this::

for some odd reason the forum changes 'poundsign symbol' (but use the crosshatch symbol not the word poundsign) to '*' in the string above. Just manually fix after you copy it in.

Cheers,

I tried it again substituting the rogue characters, but I still don't be able to seem to get it going I am afraid?:





Because of the slight issue with the typos created by this forums text formatting, perhaps you might be so kind as to PM me the 'string' at:

paulseaman1 <at> hotmail.com

I can post a screenshot for everyone once it's working!

Thanks a lot.

[garym]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Many thanks Gary,

Do you mean, please, that it only shows you how long each track lasts for?

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Or, like in 'Windows Media Player', it will show the duration as it ticks away on the timeline:

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Much appreciated.

it will show the time decending as the track plays. So, for example if you have a track that is 5:56 long, you would start playing it and the display at top and bottom of foobar screen will show

5:56/5:56, 5:55/5:56, 5:54/5:56.....0.19/5:56, 0.18/5:56 and so on. (it's not showing all these at once, it's counting down as it plays).

Also, I noticed the forum changed my * to *. Use this::

'*'%track number% '- '%title% %playback_time%/%length% '['%artist% - %album%']' %codec% %bitrate%kbs |%__bitspersample% bits|, '['RG Album %__replaygain_album_gain%/ RG Track %__replaygain_track_gain%']' $if(%hdcd%,HDCD = YES)

for some odd reason the forum changes 'poundsign symbol' (but use the crosshatch symbol not the word poundsign) to '*' in the string above. Just manually fix after you copy it in.

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

EDIT: re button size, there probably is a way to change, but I have no idea. I can see if you right click on the control bar at top (stop, pause, play, etc.), the popup menu has "customize button" at bottom of list. If you click on this, I see you can highlight a control and click on "change icon". But you'd need to have a replacement icon from somewhere. And it may or may not be bigger. Probably all sorts of ways to customize, but I've never looked into it.

EDIT2: I found this when I googled for "change foobar2000 button size"
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,86099.0.html

Cheers,

I checked out the forum LINK.

Seems it was back in 2011 this mater was discussed. Not sure if there has been an update since?

It's quite small (I find) but I can live with it for the time being. It's probably something I will put more effort into solving once I have a 100 x CDs ripped later down the line.

Paul

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

regarding timeline of player (duration, etc.), I've made a change to my setup that will allow this. Do this (and you can even do this in your current setup without doing my other steps).

FILE > PREFERENCES, click on Default User Interface

on the right under "Playback state display formatting" copy the following string into the "Window title" and the "Status bar" boxes (replacing what's there)

Then at bottom and top of foobar window, right after the track no and name it will show current time played in the track over the total time in the track.

Many thanks Gary,

Do you mean, please, that it only shows you how long each track lasts for?





Or, like in 'Windows Media Player', it will show the duration as it ticks away on the timeline:



Much appreciated.

[garym]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

lot of info, but doing all the steps will take only 5 minutes in total!

regarding timeline of player (duration, etc.), I've made a change to my setup that will allow this. Do this (and you can even do this in your current setup without doing my other steps).

FILE > PREFERENCES, click on Default User Interface

on the right under "Playback state display formatting" copy the following string into the "Window title" and the "Status bar" boxes (replacing what's there)

'*'%track number% '- '%title% %playback_time%/%length% '['%artist% - %album%']' %codec% %bitrate%kbs |%__bitspersample% bits|, '['RG Album %__replaygain_album_gain%/ RG Track %__replaygain_track_gain%']' $if(%hdcd%,HDCD = YES)

Then at bottom and top of foobar window, right after the track no and name it will show current time played in the track over the total time in the track.

EDIT: re button size, there probably is a way to change, but I have no idea. I can see if you right click on the control bar at top (stop, pause, play, etc.), the popup menu has "customize button" at bottom of list. If you click on this, I see you can highlight a control and click on "change icon". But you'd need to have a replacement icon from somewhere. And it may or may not be bigger. Probably all sorts of ways to customize, but I've never looked into it.

EDIT2: I found this when I googled for "change foobar2000 button size"

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,86099.0.html

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Wow, thanks Gary!

Gee, that's a shed load of info.

I am using 'Foobar' now instead of that damn awful 'WMP'!

I have quickly skimmed through your kind email. But I wanted to ask, please:

I find the 'playbar' (ie. Play/RR/FF/Stop) buttons quite small. I am not sure how others feel about it? And so do you know if there is a way to make this region bigger, as a whole?

And secondly, on the 'timeline' of the player, is it possible for it to display the duration of how long the track has been playing for, and how long is left?



Many thanks.

[garym]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

As promised, here's some Foobar2000 stuff I use. Keep in mind there are thousands of ways to setup the way foobar2000 works and displays. It is that flexible. Also keep in mind that I'm no foobar guru, and my setup is just designed to work for the simple things I use foobar for (playing files on my computer). Foobar is not even my main library/player. I use it on my office computer and to check a few things on my home computer. My main music library is using a headless server running linux OS, and feeding files to Logitech Media Server (LMS) which I then control with laptop, iphone, or ipad to play music through various squeezebox networked music players around my house. I also have a setup I'm playing with using these files and a Roon Labs library to feed music to some local "roon ready" networked music players.

Anyhow back to foobar:

1. Install foobar2000 (you already have I believe). From here:

http://www.foobar2000.org/getfile/274b3a9b69bb8f3cb8f17f126621a389/foobar2000_v1.3.16.exe

2. after foobar is installed and it works, exit the foobar program and install the following components in the foobar component folder (get components from:

http://www.foobar2000.org/components

Facets 1.0
File Integrity Verifier 1.1.2

when you download these components, you'll end up unzipping I recall and the main thing is that the two component files above (after unzipping) end up in this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar2000\components

3. Download this file to your desktop (I'll leave it there a few days)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27403489/foobartheme_garym.fth

4. Then restart foobar2000.

5. In foobar2000, go to menu at top, FILE > PREFERENCES > click on "Default User Interface". To the right you see "Theme Management" Click on "import theme".
This will open a box for you to browse to and selected the file "foobartheme_garym.fth" you saved above. Select this file and then click "open". This should import my theme into foobar2000.

6. Exit foobar2000 then reopen the program.

7. in foobar2000 menu, click on LIBRARY, then CONFIGURE. Under "music folders" click "add", then browse to the top level directory (folder) of the directory on your computer holding all your music files (e.g., C:\music). Then click "Apply" then OK. It may take a while to read all your music files into the library. (well, it does for my ~100,000 tracks anyhow.)

At this point you have foobar2000 setup the way I personally use it. On the upper left box, click on "playlists" tab. (note the other tabs too there you can click on...try these too). After clicking on Playlist tab, double click on "Library Selection". You should now see the boxes to the right populate with artist, tracks, albums names, genre, etc. When You select a track to play, you should see the album art in lower left. Also, at the bottom and top of the screen, any now playing song shows you track, album, artist, type of file, Replay Gain values, etc. At the top of each column you can click on the title to sort by name, etc. Click once and you see A...Z. Click again you see Z....A, etc. I often click on the "last modified" column to see things I recently added/edited.

p.s. Look at the "radiostreaming" under playlists and you'll see some internet radio stations you may like. Well, you'll like the first few as they are all jazz! EDIT: Actually, I'm not sure that internet radio playlist carries over with the theme import....so you may not see this after all.

Also note that foobar is very powerful and can do file conversions, ripping, tag editing, etc. I don't use it for any of those purposes. I just use it for playing. I use dbpa for ripping/converting and sometimes mp3tag for some tag editing.

Have fun!

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Thanks JH,

Yes, I am on Win_10.

I have found and set it accordingly now!

Cheers.

[Jailhouse]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

If my remembery is still working, you're using Windows 10. So do this:

- Click on the Start button and type in control panel.

- When it pops up, click on Hardware and Sound

- In the Autoplay section, click on Play CDs or other medial automatically.

- Choose your default actions for the various devices. CDs is the fifth section down.

Alternatively, you can cancel AutoPlay altogether by ticking the box at the top of the window.

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Hi,

I disassociated 'Windoze_Media_Player' from opening any music files (ie. when I double-click on an mp3/FLAC). However, when I insert a hard-copy CD (ie. to be ripped by 'dBpa'), 'WMP' automatically opens and starts to play the entire album.

Is there a way to permanently prevent this action, please? It's a shame I just can't completely uninstall the awful thing!

Cheers,

Paul

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

... solved the above now, thanks!

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: Windows Media Player vs. Foobar/dBpa/VLC/Groove-Music

Hi,

I fully admit I have not had much free time to play with my newly installed s/w 'Foobar'. Though I am using it each day now instead of that awful dinosaur equivalent from Windows.

Perhaps - should anyone be interested - I might open up a discussion on listening/ear-training techniques in the future (not a tutorial, but rather just a mash-up for everyone to throw their own personal experiences/methods into the mix.

Anyway, I do have a quick question and if anyone could kindly answer I would be very grateful:

In 'Foobar', is it possible to LOOP a single track, please? So, I click on a single track (from a digital album on my hard-drive) and it plays this same track (only) round and round?

Not sure what you would call such a mode. 'Repeat Play'?

Cheers,

Paul