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Questions / How to move songs from playlist and keep ratings?

« on: July 08, 2018, 13:54:34 »

Assume I have a sub directory tree full of MP3 files. The base directory for this sub directory tree is (in this example) D:\archive\mp3s\

Furthermore I have an exported playlist D:\archive\mp3s\full.aimppl4 with RELATIVE pathes to hundreds of *.mp3 files in the subdirectory tree.
When I double click on it in WinExplorer it is loaded and all songs have 1 star up to 5 star rating.

Fine so far

Now I move the whole mp3 sub directory tree to another directory lets say:

E:\music\

When I double click now on E:\music\full.aimppl4 then the playlist with all the songs is opened in AIMP
but the ratings are all lost.

How can I load the ratings into new playlist resp. how can keep them for the new location?

In former version of AIMP there was a sub menu

Utilities--->Audio Library--->Database---->Missed Files

which helped me somehow to fix this problem.

However I do not find the menu any more.

How can I achieve a migration of ratings now resp. how can I re-assign them later into new playlist?

Peter

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Questions / Questions about Skins

« on: July 08, 2018, 08:54:23 »

As far as I can see all selectable skins are stored in folder

<AIMPbase>\Profile\Skins\

But for what are the Skins in folder

<AIMPbase>\Skins\
?

Other question:

As far as I read *.acs4 Skins cannot be loaded (directly) into Skin Editor.
Do I really need for *.acs4 Skins the *.acs4proj file or is there a workaround which let me (at least partially) edit these Skins anyway?

Peter

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Вопросы / Re: How to change font+background color of currently played song?

« on: July 06, 2018, 15:37:00 »

What does that mean?

Which entry do I have to change?

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Questions / Re: How to let AIMP store/remember collapsed/expanded state of playlist folders?

« on: July 06, 2018, 10:23:33 »

So, what if original playlist or copy have been changed?

...then (and only then) a new tab should be opened.

Title is not unique thing to determine playlists

...then use last known/most recently used playlist with the same title
Leave it to users to assign unique titles

In general playlist titles will most probably change very seldom and be unique.
For the exceptions of this rule simple default action can be setup.


Other solutions are possible as well:
- Identify playlist by ID in "Summary" section
- Assign internally "directory loaded from" to playlist tab
- Identify playlist by new "Summary" section line "original directory loaded from" in *.aimppl4

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Questions / Re: How to let AIMP store/remember collapsed/expanded state of playlist folders?

« on: July 05, 2018, 12:16:42 »

Ok.
But AIMP could at least compare the new "Tab" title with alreayd existing tab titles.
When it already exists it could/should take the existing one instead of opening a new

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Questions / Re: How to let AIMP store/remember collapsed/expanded state of playlist folders?

« on: July 03, 2018, 09:54:14 »

Ok this works.

However then the playlist is ALWAYS opened in a new button.

So when I opened in the past a playlist with name "spanishpop" a tab/button at the top of the playlist window exists.
When I double click on the same playlist file in Windows Explorer a new tab/button is created instead of detecting and using the previous one.

So I miss a checkbox:

"Open playlist files in new tabs when not existing; otherwise use existing"

Can this be added in the next release?

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Questions / How to let AIMP store/remember collapsed/expanded state of playlist folders?

« on: June 29, 2018, 19:33:24 »

As you know the current playlist can be stored in *.aimppl4 files.

This play list can contain multiple folders/sections.
Echo of this playlist folder/section can be collapsed by clicking on the minus "-" the right end of the section headline.

However when I store (by export) the current playlist in a .aimppl4 file then the state collapsed/expanded is NOT saved as well.

Whenever I double click on this .aimppl4 file later ALL sections/folders are always expanded.

How can I tell AIMP to remember this state as well?

Thank you
Peter

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Вопросы / How to change font+background color of currently played song?

« on: June 26, 2018, 09:50:30 »

Assume I have started playing a song from my playlist.
The font color iof the active song is white and the background color of active line dark grey.
So it is almost the same as the default (white+black).

I would appreciate if I could change the color of the active song line to red font color and light red background.

How can I achieve this in detail with (newest) Skin Editor (under Windows)?

I loaded so far my Skin, then selected
"PlaylistFrame"---><TASELayoutitems>---->PlaylistSite---->TASELayoutContainer--->"Playlist"

Then I searched for something like

"Active Item FontColor
or
"Active Item BackgroundColor

...but didn't found them.

What are the corresponding properties?

Thank you
Peter Steiner

Peter

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Questions / How to re-use already opened playlist/top buttons if they exists?

« on: June 25, 2018, 14:11:09 »

Assume I click on a playlist file in WinExplorer.

The playlist is opened in AIMP and the songs are played.
Furthermore at the top of the playlist AIMP window a button with the playlist name is added.

Fine.

Now I double click again on the same playlist file in WinExplorer and a second playlist name button is added at the top the playlist window of AIMP.

Why?

How can I tell AIMP to use a playlist button if it already exists?

If I click a couple times on various playlists (read: switch between them) I get around 20 or more playlist buttons without need.

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Questions / How to change font+background color of currently playing song?

« on: June 25, 2018, 10:09:43 »

Assume I have started playing a song from my playlist.

The font color is white and background of active line dark grey.
So it almost the same as the default (white+black).

I would appreciate if I could change the color of the active song line to red font color and light red background.

How can I achieve this in detail?

Peter

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Questions / Avoid prompt for playlist name after double click on *.mp3?

« on: June 11, 2018, 07:45:27 »

When I double click in Windows Explorer (in Win7) on a *.mp3 file then AIMP is opened.

Unfortunately always at first a prompt appears asking the user to enter a new playlist name.

How can I suppress this prompt?

AIMP should play the audio file WITHOUT assignment to a certain playlist.

If absolutely necessary the AIMP should automatically enter a default playlist name like "default" or "none".
How can I achieve this?

Peter

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Questions / How to re-assign audio file extensions to play with AIMP?

« on: June 10, 2018, 18:52:18 »

A couple of weeks ago when I double click on a *.mp3 file on my 64bit Win7 system then the audio file was automatically opened and played with AIMP. Fine.

Then  I installed and evaluated some other video and audio editors which assigned audio file extensions to their program. Even worse: After uninstallation they didn't remove the file associations they created.

Now currently when I doubleclick on a *.mp3 file then built-in Windows Media Player is called :-(

I want AIMP for playing.

Ok I can right-click on a *.mp3 file then select "Open with...", then select AIMP from prgm list and mark/enable the check box "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"

AIMP plays now the audio file but unfortunately it seems to forget this "always" re-assignment.

When I double click the next time on another *.mp3 file the procedure is necessary again.

How can I permanently re-assign all audio file extensions to AIMP?

I miss such a button/menu inside AIMP.

Did I miss something?

Any hintds appreciated

Peter

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Questions / How to increase font size in song list?

« on: December 19, 2017, 10:15:48 »

How do I increase the font size of all entries/lines in the song list?

Is it only (!) a matter of my skin or a general option?

Peter

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Вопросы (архив) / Re: File dialog for "Save Playlist" does not remember original directory

« on: February 20, 2016, 13:44:15 »

This is rather confusing.
In the past months I forgot several times to export the modified playlist and lost a lot of changes.
I use AIMP on multiple computers but only one archive on my USB flash drive.

Could you introduce a preference "Modify original playlist" or "Modify original playlist too" or "use only playlist in original folder"?

Thank you
Peter

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Вопросы (архив) / Re: %REPLACE() with wildcards?

« on: February 20, 2016, 13:08:32 »

Great!
It works

:-)