About suggestions and feature requests

Discuss suggestions and feature requests in the foo_ui_columns thread before posting them here. Include as much information as you can, post new suggestions in the unscreened section.

Note: These are only feature requests that may be implemented. The suggestions section is NOT a to-do list.

• Different colours for frames of selection
• Tab stack: Multi-line mode
• Filter search toolbar
• Media library search toolbar
• Make size of separators configurable
• Duplicate layout preset button
• More flexibility regarding im/exporting layout presets
• Various panels: Autocomplete for in-line metafield editing
• Alternating line colours in more standard panels

• Globals support in group scripts
• Some implementation of a rating columns
• Collapsible groups
• Support for group index / count accessibility in display scripts
• Grouping presets, with possibility to select a preset on a per-playlist basis
• Artwork on right side of playlist
• Lock from double clicking/pressing enter to play tracks

• Multiple columns per panel
• Info columns: Total size, total length, number of tracks, average rating, codec, folder path, date.
• Option to ignore leading 'The' when sorting for display
• Option to exclude tracks without the selected field from the 'All' item
• Option to hide 'All' item
• Option to hide column titles
• Use sources other than media library (playlists, …)
• Make it easier to re-autosend an entry when reactivating a Filter Panel

• Option to display all metadata
• Display some other tech info fields
• Option to hide the column titles

• Sortable columns
• Sorting via shortcut menu
• Multiple selections
• Possibility to create separate playlists when dropping multiple playlists or folders.
• Grouping

• Possibility to specify sources of “Artist picture” type

• Ability to zoom an image to: the source image size, …
• Option to display placeholder image when no tracks are active
• Fading between image changes

• $swapprefix etc. functions for branched fields
• Album List Panel: remember scroll position across foobar2000 instances
• 'collapse children' action in item shortcut menu

• Tab character support

• Group multiple commands into drop-down button
• State indications for some standard foobar2000 commands
• Vertical and wrapping options

• Incompleteness of live editing
• Filter Panel does not save field list to FCL file
• Issues scrolling system focus rectangle in Columns Playlist and NG Playlist
• Auto-hiding splitters don't mix with drag and drop
• Album list panel: hiding filter box doesn't reset the active filter query

Have the ability to define different colours for the bars in the default vis for columns UI.

Meaning being able to split the bars into either two or three sections (both options would be nice) and assign different colors to those sections, i.e., one color for the bottom section and one for the top section. Bars should be divided according to window height.

Ability to use gradients for the bars could be really neat as well.

• Select playlist in playlist switcher panel when dropping on that playlist in the panel
• Show deny icon when dropping in/on locked playlists

E.g. for play/pause button

   eg. columns playlist a| column playlist b instead of what happens now when u add another playlist columns playlist a| column playlist a

eg. %userprofil%\ or %windir%\ …..

To avoid panel sizes from being changed accidentally (different from the current lock, which just keep the size when foobar is resized)

Make the background of Album List Panel invisible so background artwork can show through.

Make the Option hide and show titlebar.

A playlist automatically renamed to the name of the node (with a simple left click) to have different playlist's columns/groups views script by node name. (Sort of mix between “send to new playlist” and “send to automatic playlist”)

In order that the automatic selection could prefers the current selection in album art viewer, items properties and items details (and maybe other panels) (It's implemented in DUI: preferences > display, maybe it's possible to reuse this one)

or at least the possibility to select/order the sub-items of “information sections”

allow to use title formatting with multiple meta data (actual “Genre” “Artist” meta tags doesn't)

These features will never be implemented:

serves no purpose, toolbar menu works fine

This occurs because common controls version 6 will use the font specified in the current theme instead (if one is specified).

( useful in not displayig redundant information in albums…)

I dont think this will work in any nice way. — musicmusic 2005/04/01 14:13

Check boxes in playlist beside each track to select certain tracks in a long playlist and perform actions on them (like in itunes).

reason: no different to using selections, etc.

You're motherf***er idiots who wrote this ”> reason: no different to using selections, etc.”.
Checkbox column (marker column) is one of the most needed feature UI_columns lacks.
There is nothing in common between selection and checkbox. Try for example select several lines(songs) in playlist and then choose different song to play (your selection will be gone and you with you selection will f*** with all your songs to remember what was selected)

Mind your language if you actually want to be taken seriously. At some point foo_utils had (and hopefully still does) a 'Collect tracks' feature which may be useful to you. — musicmusic 2009/04/10 19:12

Well done for editing your swearing, but it broke the wiki formatting. Fixed. Anyway this is not changing anytime soon in the built-in playlist views. Assigning middle click to add to playback queue may be useful to you also. — musicmusic 2009/04/11 13:50

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