Revision as of 06:27, 11 January 2011

General

foo_playlisthistory enables playlist history in foobar2000, similar to page history in browsers.

The component watches activated playlists and provides the user back and next buttons to navigate the playlist history.

Two commands are provided under the 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.

Two commands are provided under the View/Recently activated playlists: Previous playlist and Next playlist. If you like, these two commands can bound to keyboard shortcuts 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

No configuration is necessary.

Change Log

0.1 / 2010-01-10
- Initial release

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 [[Image:menu.png|thumb|right|292px|Playlist History]]
 =General=
-'''foo_playlisthistory''' enables playlist history in foobar2000, similar to browser history. Two commands are provided under the ''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|Getting started]] section for details).
+'''foo_playlisthistory''' enables playlist history in foobar2000, similar to page history in browsers.
+The component watches activated playlists and provides the user ''back'' and ''next'' buttons to navigate the ''playlist history''.
+Two commands are provided under the ''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|Getting started]] section for details).
 The component enables easy and fast switching between recently activated playlists.
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 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:
+Two commands are provided under the ''View/Recently activated playlists'': ''Previous playlist'' and ''Next playlist''. If you like, these two commands can bound to keyboard shortcuts as follows:
 * Open foobar preferences using Ctrl+P
 * Click ''Keyboard shortcuts'' (on the left)