Comments on: foo_w7shell 0.2.8.1

By: Coren

Coren — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:23:17 +0000

With foobar 1.0 support was added for custom artwork paths. I’ve set up this feature to work with my own collection (in my case, the artwork filename is always ‘(‘%date%’)’ %album%.jpg) and it works fine in foobar. However, the artwork still doesn’t show up in the Win7 shell with this plugin.
Could you perhaps update it to take advantage of this new feature in foobar 1.0?

By: Kejml

Kejml — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:25:59 +0000

How can I turn-off thumbnail? I want only progress indicator in taskbar for Windows 7.

By: Zeljko

Zeljko — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:52:24 +0000

Could you please add volume control?

By: bakaneko

bakaneko — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:25:40 +0000

Hi. I have serious problems with plugin. With w7shell foobar takes around 2 minutes to start (1-2 sec without it). If I remove all playlist (~30 of them) start time becomes reasonable. Adding/removing playlist takes 1-2 seconds (instant without w7shell).
Win7x64, foobar2000 0.9.6.9 (though it is same for the latest beta).

PS Sorry for my English.

By: Sunyi Nyufi

Sunyi Nyufi — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:45:33 +0000

Understandable, it’s you’re work after all, do it the way you like it (I still might switch to foobar2000 anyway XD)

By: pieceofsummer

pieceofsummer — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:59:01 +0000

I’m not going to write artist, title or other things on a preview thumbnail. It’s not a competition with win7shell and I have no desire for supporting everything. I have my own vision on how it should look and work, and switching users from other players to foobar2000 is not by goal

By: Sunyi Nyufi

Sunyi Nyufi — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:46:21 +0000

As maddox said, it would be nice, if the artist and title of the currently played track was written on the preview thumbnails, like Win7shell does for Winamp. If it did, I would switch from Winamp to foobar2000

By: Sparanoid

Sparanoid — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:04:19 +0000

I tried a fresh portable installation, added this componet, then created a new blank playlist, it’s lagged about 1 sec, and added about 6000 tracks, quit foobar and restarted, it’s slow

By: pieceofsummer

pieceofsummer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:41:38 +0000

skitchbeatz, the glitch with artwork centering is actually a Windows bug.
Try turning on the foobar’s window transparency (it may stay fully opaque, only the fact of transparency matters), it should almost completely remove that strange glitch.

And what’s with the ability to display artwork? Are there some messages in console?

By: pieceofsummer

pieceofsummer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:37:21 +0000

Sparanoid, thanks for feedback.
Are you sure the plugin is an issue? Actually I didn’t tested it on a large amount of songs, but I don’t see any reason for it running so slow.
I’ll try to repro this behavior when I have a chance. And could you please also try this on an empty foobar configuration just with the only foo_w7shell installed?