Issue: How can I display the rating of songs in the search results of foobar2000?
The popular music player foobar2000 (or foobar, as I like to call it) offers a great solution to work through a collection of songs. Foobar also offers the option to rate songs with 1 to 5 stars. However the program does not include the possibility to display the given rating inside of the search box. With a short expression this evidently useful feature can be easily implemented.
Preparing Foobar
Open up foobar2000 and click on Library > Configure to bring up the preferences. Make your way to Playlist View within the nested tree. Add a new Custom column and paste in this pattern:
$pad($repeat(★,$meta(rating)), 5,✩)
Type in a name to recognize your column later on. If your Playlist View resembles something like this, hit Ok:
Now open your search dialogue and click on a blank space next to the header with column names. A context menu will appear where you may choose the column you just created:
As the column appears you are now able to move it by drag & dropping it around. Congratulations, you just enabled the display of the track rating in foobar2000:
One question though: how do we go by rating songs? I mean, which field name should I create/call up in the “track properties” dialogue box in order to rate them?
Scott, I found the directions here using the Quick Tagger component: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,59187.0.html
Scott, I found the directions here using the Quick Tagger component: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,59187.0.html
(very) Belated thanks!
Everything looks good, except foobar can’t actually change the proprieties of the file. If you open JRiver for example and rate a file with 4 stars, that file will have 4 stars in foobar, but you can’t modify the rating using foobar.
Yes you can i’ve been doing since 2008 with playback statistics component.
Will you please share how for those of use that have not figured this out? Thx.