Add new Buttons or tune existing ones.
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This add-on adds a button to your status bar to show & hide player controls.
It adds a button to the titlebar to switch to miniplayer and back.
This also supports the Medium Players "More Gonzo" and "Pure Player".
It adds a button to show/hide the Equalizer window, too.
Also it enables the "hide right service pane"-button in library-view. (By default it is available only in browser-view.)
But most important, it adds toolbar-buttons for media-views. Supported are:
* Album View * BirdQuizz * Divided Tag Cloud * Duplicated Tracks * Filter Pane (default) * Ghost Tracks * Griddy * List (default) * List-less Filters * MediaFlow * ♪Photo * Spotbird Artist Browser * Vertical Filter Pane * Grid View * Album List *... Something is missing here? Leave a note!
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Release Notes
Big update, some bugs might be on board!
Also some feathers might need an update, to skin the (new) buttons properly.
* 80% rewritten the code, to make it more efficient, especially for MiniPlayer/MediumPlayer/Pure Player
* Fixed some Errors.
* Changed the Layout of options.
* Added new Option: Show Equalizer-Button.
* Added Feature: The states of Service-Pane and Player-Controls should now be stable between restarts, feather-switches and tab-changes.
* Added danish Translation. (Thanks, Joergen!)
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... and the left bottom pane?
I just usually don't change left-bottom-pane (album-art, for me) and I guessed other people don't want to, too :-)
You could use a button for that one, too? I implement that, if you want.
@atreiu
Very usefull ! Good work !
Yes!!! Thank you!!! I requested this feature some time ago, finally I have it :D
Nice!
that was needed =)
that was needed =)
Thanks you!
The lack of this feature was a complaint I made recently in the uninstall survey.
Thanks for your feedback, and I thought I was the only one complaining :-D
I hope my add-on is only needed for a short time, this feature is surely something that has to be build in the main application.
@atreiu,
You are simply on the ball. Am I to assume that you will be incorporating buttons for the various media views? Stevo just launched two NICE ones.
@deomega, yeah, stevos new views rock! But do you think buttons for mediaviews would be helpful? Switching through the button in the nav-bar is quite easy & fast, yet.
Much needed - Icing on the cake. Great Add-On!!!
@atreiu
hmm, maybe not needed.. Maybe I need to get accustomed to the drop-down list for views... though the list has gotten longer now that he has added 2 more great ones. Thanks for considering though.
@deomega: yeah, the list is getting longer :-D And I'm not quite accustomed to the drop-down list, too. (In fact i discovered the existence of this button yesterday :-x ) I'll wait some days, and if I don't get used to it, this would be my next step:
There's lots of space in nav-bar (next to the dropdown-button), I could create buttons for every media-view and put them there. Of course the user should be able to select the buttons to show in an option-pane, otherwise clarity would not be granted.
The thing with the media view button is if you go onto the web with songbird, the browser address area takes up that space, but I am sure you would know how to work around it :) Either case, I am one of those that certainly welcome a few more buttons.
@deomega: media-views are completely disabled when you are in browser mode, so you won't miss the buttons, then. I have to check out, how hard it is to implement the options. Never done this before.
Ah... true. My mistake.
Awesome! Thank you!
Gah, damn not being able to edit comments :)
Would it be possible to define where the controls appear?
For instance, the pane toggle buttons can kind of get lost in between other items (last.fm, stylish, etc)
It would also be logical if the toggle buttons were over on the left hand side, along with the service pane toggle button.
Just (another) idea!
Thanks! But an autohide-function like you suggested would be much better. But that's too difficult for me to implement... :-/
@atreiu
Ok, i'll go back to being patient :)
Really appreciate the update though!
yeah, no ability to edit comments sucks :-D
the position of the buttons is just because it's the easiest way to put them there. I would put more effort in this add-on, but i'm focused on YABS. And i REALLY think my addon should be just provisionally! Switching these panes HAS to be possible without an extension. And an autohide-extension HAS to be created! :-D
The F11-function implemented in the nightlies is a good start...
So, well, sorry, if don't put much more work into this add-on. I hope you understand... ;-)
Again, i was too late :-p Thanks! I think i go to bugzilla and demand an edit-comments-function ;-)
Awesome work atreiu! Didn't even think I needed this until you make this extension!
@stevo, yeah, its funny! I didn't either! But if the controls are hidden, you suddenly see, that you can lots of things without them, and use the space for other things :-)
btw, I'm a very great fan of your add-ons! I wish I had your coding-skills O.O
This should be default in the Songbird UI. lol. Thanks for the nifty add-on.
i have a problem. whether i'm in the library mode or browser mode, the buttons to select which pane view doesn't appear, and it's the latest version. help? :)
@awkwardsmile: which feather do you use? anything suspicious in the error-log? could you provide a screenshot? (if i can see your status-bar layout/icons, perhaps that would help, too)
@awkwardsmile: 2 more questions: Does the button to hide servicepane-left(!) work in library/playlist mode? You should see this button at least. And: which songbird version do you use? No nightly, no 0.6, right?
nope! i'm using songbird 0.7 the latest version.
@awkwardsmile: Sorry, I need more info, or I won't be able to solve this problem:
1. Please try to create a new, blank profile with profile-manager. Install only Pane Buttons. Do they show up, then?
2. Does the button to hide servicepane-left(!) work in library/playlist mode? You see this button by default, but it only works in library-mode with Pane Buttons installed.
3. Anything suspicious in the error-log?
4. Which Feather do you use?
i'm currently using the default gonzo feather with the personas for songbird add on. does it affect it?
Not in my songbird:
Again: I might be able to solve this, if you answer my questions. Otherwise I probably can't.
1. Please try to create a new, blank profile with profile-manager. Install only Pane Buttons. Do they show up, then? yep
2. Does the button to hide servicepane-left(!) work in library/playlist mode? You see this button by default, but it only works in library-mode with Pane Buttons installed.
3. Anything suspicious in the error-log?
4. Which Feather do you use?
personas
1. Please try to create a new, blank profile with profile-manager. Install only Pane Buttons. Do they show up, then? yep
2. Does the button to hide servicepane-left(!) work in library/playlist mode? You see this button by default, but it only works in library-mode with Pane Buttons installed.
3. Anything suspicious in the error-log?
4. Which Feather do you use?
personas
@awkwardsmile: thanks a lot! I wonder, why do you have two close-buttons in the window-bar in the screenshot with personas? In the new profile you haven't. Might be a sign for a corrupted profile.
Error log seems to be clear (for pane-button problem).
I posted something about this in the dev-group ( http://groups.google.com/group/songbird-dev/browse_thread/thread/434aa82c23349a26 ) and now wait for an answer.
If you would like to do some more testing, you could install all your addons used in the old profile in the new profile, one by one, and watch out, if the pane-buttons stop working at any point. If the buttons keep on working, it is a corrupt profile.
oh there is an extra close button cos that's the "minimize/close to task bar" add on :) ok sure i will try that and get back to you!
OMG YOU'RE RIGHT IT'S THAT EXTRA CLOSE BUTTON THAT CAUSES THE THING TO BE MISSING!!! Why :(
you mean this add-on: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1 ?
I don't get an extra close-button, when i install this, even in a new profile.
mh, i just figured out that you are using this one: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1
This add-on is not compatible with 0.7, like gmail notifier, you are using too. You can't expect to override compatibility without causing problems.
(I do this by myself, sometimes. But if I get an error, the first thing I try is to disable ALL incompatible add-ons. This solves the problems like every time.)
Anyway, i see what i can do...
wrong link above. This is the incompatible addon you are using: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/152
I'm sorry, I found no solution. "System Tray Support" was build for Rubberducky, 5 month ago, not for Gonzo. A lot of things have changed since this. Source-code for some dll and xpt of the add-on is using is missing, too. Track the error down would just take too much effort and time, and I don't know if it is possible at all. SO... you will have to decide, which add-on to use, or get the system tray support - developer to update it to Gonzo. :-/
@atreiu
Your extension idea is integrate since today songbird 0.8.0pre nightly build !
@GeekShadow: Great news! Thanks for letting me know!
Very handy man, thanx a lot, great add-on!!
Some of what you had are still missing from the integration.. plus, i hope they consider the buttons across the top.
atreiu,
Can't hear from you :). Could you please make this compatible to Songbird 1.0? I read above about it being incorporated, but many of the features were left out.
Regards
@deomega: Done! (finally ;)
Thank u once more, and congrats for being incorporated to the core :-)
GREAT update !
Lol, i thought this add-on was dead when Songbird integrated it into their player. Looks i was wrong. Nice one ;).
Lol, the condemned live longer. ;-) Thanks for your comments.
deOmega sheds tears of joy!! :)
Really nice update indeed...Thank you!
Very nice work, thank you.
A few things though:
- Add an option to disable the switch media view button. Since all the views have a button of their own (which I prefer), the switch button is only taking additional space.
- I have my player controls at the top and it looks really weird to have the button ti hide/show them in the bottom of the window. I can't really think of way to make this better, maybe add an option to disable the remove the button from there?
- Add a menu option to the "View" menu to hide/show the service pane just like the others on that menu.
That's it :)
Sweet. I really like the MediaFlow icon :)
@Nazgulled: Thanks for your suggestions!
1.) I'm working on an option-pane, where you can set all the buttons and behaviours of PaneButtons, I will add an option to hide the default media-view button there.
2.) Yeah, that does feel strange... but I guess there is no better place for it. How ever, like in 1.) said, you will be able to remove this button from the Statusbar.
3.) Good idea! I will give try to do that :-)
@JohnM: :-) it's even shown, if they don't have MediaFlow, at the moment :-p I thought about change its functionality to open your download-page, in that case, hihi... But an option pane will be the more clean solution, i guess.
hmm, the additional media view buttons are not showing for me, and actually removed the list view one.
man, where is the edit post option.. lol.
Ignore my haste.. it is awesome.. i saw the 'known issue' you posted and misunderstood.. Especially not being able to access the option in the regular addon window.
Everything is great.. Thank you.
Man, this is fantastic!!!!!
Hmm, I see some striking resemblance between your preferences pane and mine for Configfilters ;)
@deomega: Lol, i don't understand, what you problem was, but I'm glad if it's gone. If you have the trouble again, tell me :-)
@stevo: *looking-in-the-air,-whistling*
I hope you don't mind, it saved me some time. I've stolen the complete groupbox xul and parts of the framework of the corresponding .js
This just updated and I lost the icon for the media view – only have list view and pane view there now. You mention buttons for Ghost Tracks, Tag Cloud, etc. have been added, but they’re not showing up for me. Thanks for your work on this.
@Mark: By default only List & Filters are shown. That is a change to the last version. Another change is, that you can decide, what buttons show up :-) Go to the options, select "Pane Buttons" on the left side, here you can add MediaFlow and all the other buttons again :-)
PS: Look at the 3rd screenshot, if you have difficulties in finding the options.
Nevermind. I just realized the options dialogue has moved to a tab in the Options window. Very nice!
@atreiu:
That is the problem i was trying to explain.. I guess Mark did a better job explaining. hehe.. MY stuff disappeared after the upgrade....then i went into tools/addons, and saw no option to modify the pane buttons, so thought.. darn. And that s when i posted my dismay.. :)
But after going to tools/options/pane buttons, I saw the options there and realized what happened, so i was able to get them back.
Any way of enabling the options in tools/addons? Some modifiable addons have it there while some don't. Never understood why some has their options accessible one way but not the other.
Hi, this is a great addon but I have a small problem with it: It makes the Tools->Options window really wide! About 1050px, which is too wide for my screen on my current setup. Thanks!
Hi Steve, i have this problem by myself, even before i installed PaneButtons. I did some testings right now, and I'm sure it is a songbird-bug, not a PaneButtons-Bug. You can find the details of my testings on bugzilla, you can vote for this bug, too:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14274
Atreiu,
Is it possible to implement separators? Would be nice to be able to put a separator between things that are essentially tasks (eg. Duplicates), and those that are truly views (eg. mediaflow)
Whoever rated this down should be kicked in the balls (you shouldn't hurt girls). This deserves a exact 5 star. Seriously, i added a new profile for some more testing on a feather I'm making, and Songbird just seems so lacking without this add-on. One suggestion though, could you do autohide for the service pane and player controls? That would be pretty neat, and maybe even be a separate add-on on it's own.
@Lib53: actually, i rated it 3 stars, because I'm not yet satisfied with it (*putting-on-my- jockstrap,-now* ;-)
Auto-hide is a good idea and easy to do, the problem is the auto-show, that should be added then, too. But I see what I can do!
Is it possible to have a MINI player button? If possible, up by the min, max, close buttons? We know we could doubleclick on the mini player to get to main app, but would be nice to have a click area for the mini player.
Man, could we get any lazier? :)
@deOmega: Yeah, that's a god idea, especially switching TO miniplayer takes two more mouse-actions than needed (no, i guess more lazier would cause death :)
I thought about that some times before, but i read somewhere this button would be re-added in 1.1. or something. But I now think they won't do it.
About the separators for the buttons: I think I don't spend time on this, because customizable tool-bars will come in one of the next Songbirds, and this might change a lot anyway.
Atreiu,
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback very much.
Try rating it 5 to see if everyone else rated it 5, because i think you're bringing down this add-on's reputation. :P
I remember when you first did this addon, the buttons on the bottom right... they had a blue highlight to indicate which pane each button is related to. I see it is basically generic now and still, every time i try closing the bottom pane etc, I always have to stop and try to figure out which really apples to it. (Yeah, I am old and need new glasses.. heard that before :))
I think it would make sense to highlight, even in white, the side that is affected.. I may not be exactly clear, but I am pretty sure you will know what I mean. :)
We need an edit option in this forum!!!!!!!!!!!! Applies, not Apples etc etc etc. lol
Please add listless filters.
Never mind previous post.
But would it be possible to make the service pane stop popping back up when going back to the library? It's kind of irritating...
Or maybe I should make a LOL Cat and stick it in the little pane... "HAi! i'M BAK!" xD
Oh and mouse over service pane button produces notice, other ones don't... Inconsistency is killing me...
Muchas gracias, muy util
No media bottons here for some reason :/
@all: Thanks for all the suggestions. I have added some of them to the last update, some others might take longer.
@photon_man62: Can you please be more specific? Which Buttons did you select in the options? What's your OS and your Songbird Version?
Being able to switch between Miniplayer and Fullplayer in an easy manner is pure awesomeness, I've been missing this feature for so long now!
Good job atreiu :-)
If you add me on Babelzilla, I can help for french translation ;)
@GeekShadow: Thanks for the hint! I just added all original translators for their languages. I was very confused, that after I updated the Add-on on Babelzilla, all translator-names were reset. And now I don't know how to un-subscribe myself from languages, so others can't subscribe themselves. :-/ But it should work now.
Great Add-On... Unfortunately the Mini-Player Button in the title bar isnt working in Mac OSX... At least for me this is the most wanted button of all provided. Maybe you could fix that one for OS X Users an place it somewhere else ;-) Thanks!
@Angryman, on MAC, Songbird uses native titlebars, right? Yeah, I can't place it there. On Windows you get the same problem, if you use one of the "Native" feathers.
Do you have a suggestion, where else I could place this button? It doesn't feel right the toolbar or statusbar...
If someone got an idea, i would try to make an option for an alternative location for this button.
Wow!!! Awesome! The button to switch to miniplayer and back is a great idea! Should default in Songbird! You're the man!
Right. Options. That was the problem.
I just upgraded to 1.1.1 and realized the skin I’m using doesn’t have the new button to switch between Miniplayer and Fullplayer. I’m using More Native in Windows. Any tips on how to enable this button for a particular skin? (I’m comfortable digging around in the extensions and messing with the HTML.)
@mark32: Please read my last comment.
Where do you want to have that button? (In native titlebar or menubar is impossible is impossible in your case)
Any ideas, where I could place it?
How can I make the bottom panel show MediaFlow?
is there anyway to make the button to go to the mini player go to the medium player instead? I have that installed to use with the YABS and I prefer it over the mini player.
@photon_man62: MediaFlow is currently implemented as a Media-View, not as a Display-Pane, so there is no way to show it in the bottom Panel. Only thing you can do is, ask John, the developer of MediaFlow to implement that. But John is quite busy, and I think there are other issues with higher priority, so i guess your chances are not very good :-/
@billbrasky81: Hmm, good idea, should be possible. I look into it :-)
Your extension removes the toolbar button from the extension More of the Same.
@toe_head2001: Oh, you're right. I'm sorry, there seems to be a major incompatibility. I can't bring the toolbar button back, even with uninstalling both Add-ons and reinstalling More of the same O.o
Have you find a way to bring the button back?
I added a warning to the description, because right now I can't find and fix the problem. No idea what's happening there... :-\
@toe_head2001: I took a look into it, and installed a complete new songbird with fresh profil. I install ONLY the "More of the same"-addon plus one Feather, and the button still disappears and can't get back. So I guess this is a "More of the same" problem, and I passed it over to Nick: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons/1395#comment_7129
Thanks, atreiu. Having an option to put the button to switch to mini mode down in the media player does the trick for me. Looks good! Thanks for continuing to work on this extension.
You're welcome, mark32. :)
just got the new version, switch to medium mode works brilliantly thanks for implementing that so quick. Great job!
Don't sweat it, I don't NEED it or anything :)
THANKS!!!!!!!!!
Super! Now it's compatible with Pure Player! :)
Thanks man!
I installed this primarily for the mini-mode and back button. Fantastic job! Very useful, and I'm sure I will use it more as time goes on. Keep up the great work!
@atreiu: With the new update came a bug, as well. If I close Songbird when it's in allied mode with Pure Player and I restart it or if I switch to Pure Player mode when Songbird is in allied mode with Pure Player and I switch to back to Main Player the little feather button is disappears. So the button is disappears if Songbird start with allied mode. The button is come back if I start Songbird alone or I go to the Pane Buttons preferences and click OK.
@Hiromacu: Yeah, but not only the SwitchToMiniplayer button is broken, none of "Pane Buttons"-Buttons come up in that case. :-(
@atreiu: Eh you're right, all buttons disappear!
I tested the previous version (1.2.0) but same problem. So I tested Pure Player too, and looks like Pure Player (allied) state remembering cause this problem.
I am a new user of Songbird and this and a few other addons stopped me from going back to winamp.
I have been needing a button for quick switching to the mini player and back.
AWESOME!
Great job atreiu!
Hi
Thanks for this excellent add on.
By the way, could the recently unearthed "Album List" be added to it as well?
Thanks
Olivier
@klint: I think "Album List" is totally unusable at the moment. So I'm not releasing an update for just this change, but when I have to work on the addon for other changes, I will add this button, too :) I'm currently focused on other add-ons, so it's not gonna happen soon.
Thanks for putting me on to this extension - it's great to clear some screen space by closing the service panel.
However, I have the same feedback/problem as "Bitsbite" - it is unfortunate that the Service Pane pops back open if you return to the Media view from a browser tab. It would be better if it remembered your preference for keeping the Service Pane hidden.
Aside from that, I am a happy user. Thanks!
Have to second what mattp is saying here, that's the only thing that comes to mind with the plugin at this juncture!
@mattp, KotW: You are right, that should be changed! Not sure, how fast I can do it. But thanks for the suggestion!
@atreiu: Hi! Media View Buttons should go to disabled status when a radio (fe. SHOUTcast) is playing. Cheers! :P
@Hiromacu: You mean, if a radio-playlist/pane is selected. (Media-views do depend on what you are looking at, but not on what you are listening.) Yeah, good idea!
Please add Grid View at your convenience :)
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1574
Thank you. Probably equalizer pane button?
When you go from a disabled pane, such as a radio or the downloads pane, and then switch back to your library, it still shows them as disabled. Any ideas on how to remedy this?
@NK4551: For me, the buttons are enabled again. Can you please tell me exactly what you've done? And can you tell me, what happens to your default media-view button (the one to drop-down all media views)? Because I just listen to this button and copy it's disabled/enabled state to my media-view buttons.
@deOmega: Good idea. I'm currently working on a new feather, that has a build-in equalizer-button, but it didn't come to my mind to make this an Pane-Button function. I'll do that later...
@atrieu: all of a sudden, all pure player und the pane button addon don't work any more! I don't know why! In addition, there's no pure player allied in the list!
...this problem is caused by more gonzo ;-)!!!
I wanted to cheep in and say I'm a big fan of this addon! I regularly use it just to hide the service pane. I'd also like to second the request to look into keeping it hidden when restarting the player, and clicking back to my music from the browser. I really appreciate your hard work, You're doing a lot to make Songbird a better player for everyone.
Scratch part of that, I hadn't used songbird in a while. The service pane is hidden between restarts, the clicking back from the browser is the only issue I'm having.
I just installed this, but now my Resume Last Track addon has stopped working. Are these two addons incompatible?
@DancemasterGlenn: Yeah, that behavior should be improved. But it's not as simple as it looks... pretty hard, actually. :-/
@marcus1704: Not that I know. I just tested it, and it works fine for me. The Track is resumed correctly. Please deactivate _all_ add-ons other than Pane Buttons & Last Track, and see if it then works. If it does, re-enable your other add-ons, one by one, and see when it breaks.
@atreiu: you were right, it was the 'Now Playing List' addon causing the problem - thanks.
The new update has fixed what you apparently thought was quite a difficult problem, so I wanted to say thank you very very much for working on it. The service pane is officially gone for me, and I couldn't be happier (I don't use many extensions from the service pane, and I don't save playlists). The addition of an equalizer button is also incredibly welcome. Great work, Atreiu!
@atreiu: Great update! I like the equalizer button!
But I have a problem with the new behavior of the show/hide service pane. In the previous version default setting was like Songbird works normally: service pane was on in media-tab and was off (automatically) in browser-tab. I used to like that because I need bigger screen when I browsing on the net, so I no need service pane at all (I turned it on just sometimes) but I need it all the time when I browsing in my library, listen to radio, edit playlist etc.. Now I have to click on the show/hide button all the time when I switch between media-tab and browser-tab.
Could you put an option into the preferences to switch between the previous behavior and the new one. Or an option to auto-hide the service pane in browser-tab would be great. Thank you! :P
Great work atreiu! The equalizer button is a welcome addition!
@Hiromacu: If you need Service-Pane in the Library all the time, you can just disable the option "Enable button to show/hide service-pane in library". Then you should have the default songbird behavior. (Maybe I should set this as the "default" value after add-on installation...)
But if people want to hide Service-Pane in the Library, than the current behavior is the only consistent way, I think.
@atreiu: Oh man sorry! I'm so mindless! Sorry again! :P
Hi atreiu, i was testing this add-on with Focus (coming along great. Almost done with the layout! i might need some help with getting the album art in though.) and i believe i spotted some typos found in this screenshot: http://i44.tinypic.com/10h7hj6.png. Those are supposed to be "of" right? I know it's not a serious bug or anything, but i thought i might as well bring it your attention. :P