Topic: foobar experts > help with playback view

[Gordon]

so I've been using foobar for playback and tagging for a while now.  I've noticed that the playback view differs on both my computers.  never really thought as to why.  figured it was a simple setting or something.  anyway today I tried to see exactly what is going on.  using the same version on both computers.

as I'm looking at the settings I notice there are more options under preferences on the laptop, again same version of foobar.  no matter what I do with the settings on the desktop the playback view is different and not how I like it.  I reinstalled on the desktop with the exact exe from the laptop.  tried full, custom etc and on the desktop there are not as many options under preferences.  I'm guessing what I need to change the playback view is not there.  I changed the settings etc and nothing.  cleared out the registry settings etc and it still doesn't install the same on the desktop.   I thought it may be that the tags are different but it's not.  played the same files on both and they look different.


here are some screen caps

laptop (how I like it)



desktop

notice there are less options




there are also more options under file on the laptop.

[boojum]

Do you have the option for columns in one and not the other???  When you re-installed after using uninstall (right?!) did you also delete the directory??  If you had the columns option it might not have been deleted on the uninstall.  That is all I can think of off the top of my head.  Also, I do not use the columns option.

[Gordon]

Do you have the option for columns in one and not the other???  When you re-installed after using uninstall (right?!) did you also delete the directory??  If you had the columns option it might not have been deleted on the uninstall.  That is all I can think of off the top of my head.  Also, I do not use the columns option.

yes columns on one and not the other.  not even sure if that's what I need but yes it's one one and not the other and was that way before the uninstall.  like I said there are also more options under file on one than the other.  gonna compare the dll files and see if they are all the same.

[boojum]

My guess is that there is something in one directory that is not in the other.  That is the only way I can explain it.  Keep us posted; I am curious.

Cheers

[firebaugh]

I think this is what's missing from the desktop system.

http://yuo.be/columns.php

[Gordon]

My guess is that there is something in one directory that is not in the other.  That is the only way I can explain it.  Keep us posted; I am curious.

Cheers

so I compared component folders.  there were 10-12 more dll's in one than the other.  I've never tweaked it out so they had to have been left from a previous version.  anyway I copied it and replaced the folder on the desktop version and it worked!  it seems it is the columns ui.  after I copied the folder and played a song it first asked to use the columns or general playback or something like that.

[terrapinj]

I think this is what's missing from the desktop system.

http://yuo.be/columns.php

awesome thanks for this! columned look is MUCH better!

+T

[boojum]

My guess is that there is something in one directory that is not in the other.  That is the only way I can explain it.  Keep us posted; I am curious.

Cheers

so I compared component folders.  there were 10-12 more dll's in one than the other.  I've never tweaked it out so they had to have been left from a previous version.  anyway I copied it and replaced the folder on the desktop version and it worked!  it seems it is the columns ui.  after I copied the folder and played a song it first asked to use the columns or general playback or something like that.

Glad you got it straightened out.  Foobar is pretty steady so I hoped it was something like what you discovered it to be.  Thanks for letting us know.  And happy listening.

Cheers

[jerryfreak]

those using foobar+digi out of a soundcard, dont forget to use kernel streaming to avoid windows double-resampling all your data

My guess is that there is something in one directory that is not in the other.  That is the only way I can explain it.  Keep us posted; I am curious.

Cheers

so I compared component folders.  there were 10-12 more dll's in one than the other.  I've never tweaked it out so they had to have been left from a previous version.  anyway I copied it and replaced the folder on the desktop version and it worked!  it seems it is the columns ui.  after I copied the folder and played a song it first asked to use the columns or general playback or something like that.

Glad you got it straightened out.  Foobar is pretty steady so I hoped it was something like what you discovered it to be.  Thanks for letting us know.  And happy listening.

Cheers