Feature Requests

[a1waysbeta]

First of all, thank you very much for writing such an excellent control bar script.
Left: Add a ⭐ rating to the right of the first line of text?
Will the last.fm icon in the middle be changed to two modes? One is last.fm, and the other is local favorites♥ mode.
Finally, it would be better if the color matching could add three modes: light/dark/custom.

[whistlechips]

Thank you for your comment.

1. Already doable: Right Click -> Configure... -> Properties (tab). Add the FB2K TF tag [%rating_stars%] after the [%title%]. This tag is available if your installation has the standard component Playback Statistics v3.x (foo playcount) installed. See https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components/Playback_Statistics_v3.x_(foo_playcount)
2. I'm not aware of Last.fm having two modes. Where would one find info/specs for this?
3. Will research and consider color matching. Would likely mean a major re-write :-(

[a1waysbeta]

Thank you very much for the update. I was a little unclear in my previous statement. The rating ⭐ is now displayed, and being able to rate by clicking on the ⭐ would be even better; the favorite icon is not the two modes of last.fm, but a local mode is added. The rating and favorite functions are similar to the functions included in Brett aka Falstaff's JSPlaylist, which is included in the SMP built-in script.

Video_2025-07-11_203641.mp4

[whistlechips]

I did some testing with adding a %rating% tagging element as you described but couldn't come up with a location in the panel that did not have it start looking like a ransom note. The panel elements all have a small amount of size self-adjustment built in that starts falling apart with additional element(s).

The JSPlaylist panel in my installation does not have a Favorite column. After looking through the original jsplaylist code, it appears to have usurped the %mood% tag to display its ♥.

I long ago had replaced it with the track's %lfm_loved% and %smp_loved% status which explains why I couldn't find it.

At this point I think I'll keep these under consideration for version 2.0 or 3.0.