Foobar2000:Components/Playlist History (foo playlisthistory)

Playlist History

General

foo_playlisthistory enables playlist history in foobar2000, similar to browser history. Two commands are provided under Menu/View/Recently activated playlists: Previous playlist and Next playlist. These two commands can bound to keyboard shortcuts using Keyboard Settings in Preferences (see Getting started section for details).

The component enables easy and fast switching between (recently activated) playlists.

Download link

The component is available from [notYet here]. Install the .zip package in "Preferences > Components" (the preferable method), or manually by unziping foo_playlisthistory.dll to foobar2000 components directory.

Source code for the component is available at [1]. The component is distributed under very permissive BSD license.

Discussion

Please use [insert link this thread] to provide feedback, or to report any bugs you might have found.

Requirements

foobar2000 1.x. The component will not work with previous versions of foobar.

Getting started

The component is usable immediately, no configuration is necessary.

However, I recommend binding Previous playlist and Next playlist to keyboard shortcuts. This can be done as follows:

• Open foobar preferences using Ctrl+P
• Click Keyboard shortcuts (on the left)
• Press Add new Button (on the right)
• Type recently to Filter list by text box to filter commands
• Choose Previous playlist under View/Recently activated playlists
• Click Key textbox and press Alt+Left using keyboard
• Click Apply

Now Previous playlist functionality is mapped to Alt+Left key combination (similar to most browsers and Windows Explorer).

The same procedure can be repeated for Next playlist<->Alt+Right binding.

Configuration

There is no configuration necessary (nor it is possible).

Change Log

• 1.0 / 2010-01-10
  • Initial release