stevo

Hey if you wanted to add in my code for http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons/1364 I would be more than willing to hand it over :). I can also give you a hand with any problems you encounter.

For the first todo you can override the filtersPage.xul and filtersPage.js content under
 override chrome://songbird/content/mediapages/filtersPage.xul chrome://[your/new/xul]
 override chrome://songbird/content/mediapages/filtersPage.js chrome://[your/new/js]

You have to override each on separately since the override is not recursive.

boosh

If you could combine 'Customize Filter Pane', 'List-less Filters', and stevo's 'ChangeFilters' into one AWESOME Filter add-on.... that would swell :)

Simon

Thanks for this - it is great component, and it will be great to have all filter list options into one place!

lektuvas

try hiding the Genre filter component and click on the song title at the bottom while the song is playing. The Genre filter component mystically appears again.

good extension. needs a little polishing

Bitsbite

Very good, this has a lot of potential.
Bugs:
One can not reorder the play list headers when filters are active.
Toolbar button is in browser tabs.
Ideas:
Allow saving of custom filter schemes and integrate with pane buttons.

Keep up the excellent work guys. Those add-ons where destined to be together. xD
I thought I'd just throw together a couple icons:
Use and abuse however you like...

klint

Hello

there is an JS error with this addon and the latest nightlies of SB 1.1b1, for the French locale:
undefined entity file customize-filter-pane/content/toolbar-overlay.xul line 12 col 9 source : toolbarbutton id="customize-filter-pane-toolbarbutton"

Thanks

marcoz

As Klint, i got the same bug. But i choose the option "disable frenche"... and now, i am unable to recover french... i uninstalled the add-on, restaure french... nothing appens. Help, please !

nickm

Awesome, I just realised this addon lets me change Artist to Album Artist in the filter pane, which gets rid of about 1500 useless entries in my list, thanks!

Just a suggestion though, can you make the toolbar button a menu option instead? The toolbar button is freezing the address bar at the moment, you could fix it with an update to the developer tools addon but even then it doesn't work properly with multiple profiles.

tdmurphy

Is there a way that you could make it so we could move the filters around in even more ways? For example, I wanted to make a full column for artists, and then have the column to the right of it split with albums and then songs. I thought it might be useful because a lot of vertical space makes it easier to browse through all of your artists, but you don't need as much vertical space for albums and songs. However, this addon only seems to move the Artist and Album filters together, so I can't separate them in this way. Hopefully, Songbird will eventually just let you drag filters around like things on iGoogle so you can get them exactly how you want.

Schwadegan

Hi, your add-on seems to cause an error reported to Getsatisfaction.com
You might want to read this topic to see what its all about.

Chlorophyll

Great add-on!
for me it replaces 'ChangeFilters' and 'VerticalFilters'.
But there is one bug:
If you change the 'Layout' part of the options and press 'Apply now', nothing happens. At least for me the changes in the layout get only visible if I quit the options and switch to another view and then back to the filter view or if I restart Songbird.

knyazeff

Great addon!
But I like to hear albums by year, something like this:

tdmurphy

I encountered a problem with this add-on, possibly the same one Bitsbite described. When the filter media view is selected in Songbird, you cannot rearrange the columns of the song list. In addition, I have the problem Schwadegan posted about, where the address does not show in URL the bar.

Chlorophyll

tdmurphy wrote:
     "I encountered a problem with this add-on, possibly the same one Bitsbite described. When the filter media view is selected in Songbird, you cannot rearrange the columns of the song list."

Ah, I see!
I have this bug too, but didn't notice it had to do with this add-on!

DancemasterGlenn

Hi there! This is my first post on the Songbird add-on page. I really enjoy your plugin, and have been using it in conjunction with a few others to make the Songbird layout more comfortable for the way I use it: I'm using Pane Buttons to hide the left service pane, this plugin to have a single Artist list on the left while hiding the playlist, and Now Playing List to... have a Now Playing list. As such, Songbird is setup similarly to classic Amarok (of which I am a fan). The one function I'm currently missing is... for lack of a better term... an expandable filter? I'd like to potentially have this Artist filter be a general Library filter, where next to each artist's name one could click a button to expand said artist to show their albums, and perhaps even again within that to show that album's songs. Unless I'm totally mistaken, this has not been made into an add-on. For all I know, it may be impossible (and for all I know, this may not be the proper place to bring such a thing up). I posted here first because... well, it just seemed like a good idea.

Essentially, is it in any way possible to implement this functionality into this/any Songbird add-on?

Thanks in advance for putting up with me, I'm just very curious about exactly how tweakable Songbird is.

thevan

Hmm, I seem to be unable to rearrange the sorting categories (album, artist, year, title, etc) in filter view. I have to go back to list view to reorder them.

Bug?

Chlorophyll

Oh kattla, that's too bad that you won't maintain this add-on anymore!

Who will do the version bumps?
Who will fix the bug with not being able to rearrange the columns in the playlist?

Just 3 weeks ago I posted comments on nearly all the other filter related add-ons, that your add-on would replace them all.
And now?
Will I have to abdicate to have the possibility to have only 2 filters on the left side of the playlist?

I really do not have any clue on how to program stuff like this otherwise I would do it.

Anyone around who could fix the bug with rearranging the columns in the playlist and do the version bumps?

DancemasterGlenn

Oh dear. This is distressing. I'm sorry you will not be continuing to update this addon, it and the Now Playing addon are two things that make Songbird appealing to me. I too am hoping that you might provide a version bump to get this working for 1.2, at least. I wish I was more code savvy, as I would certainly take over development in that case. I hope someone can step up to the plate on this one.

Kattla, thank you no matter what for your work on this addon. It has made my time using Songbird much more enjoyable.

BR-Charles

Kattla, I have a problem! 'Customize folder pane' doesn't work with Portuguese (BR) Language, mine language. Every time I try to install SB crashes and order to restart, but that time with English Language Pack.

stevo

@kattla - Hello, so I see you are no longer maintaining this :(. I would gladly take this add on over and possibly merge my ChangeFilters add on in it. Let me know, if I don't hear from you in a couple of weeks I will look at "stealing" the add on :).

Thanks,
 Stevo.

haggard

please work on an update for the new version im lost without this addon I like my filter pane's to be vertical and I cant have that without this addon please release an update!

DancemasterGlenn

What a relief! Thank you stevo, it will be great to see this updated again. Will updates still happen on this page, or on the changefilters page?

haggard

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh please fix this for the update im goin' nuts!!! this was my fav add on and now alas, it is gone.......

zoopzoop

@stevo When do you think there will be a 1.2 compatible version of this plugin? Are you actively working on that right now? I for one will use the old Songbird version until this plugin is compatible.

haggard

we really need this to be given a version bump PLEASE FIX! this is argueably my fav add-on.

haggard

I've resorted to annoying and i don't care. i look for this add on to be updated for the new version EVERY DAY!!!! if i knew how to fix the problem myself i would do so. Alas i do not.... please make a version bump i might abandon songbird soon until that has been done....i dont want to do that but im becoming a little discouraged. please please please with whip cream and a chreey on top PLLLLLEEEEEAAAASSSEEE give this addon a version bump my very life hangs in the balance......ok not really but id really like it!

DancemasterGlenn

*shakes head* I appreciate the version bump, but I hope you didn't just do it for him. Haggard, that was a really rude of you to demand an update like that. I'm sure stevo is going to work on updating this addon soon, but if you bother to check the blog, you'll realize he just moved to the US like 2 weeks ago. I'm sure he has a lot more things on his plate than just updating addons left and right. You need to learn to be more patient in the future.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, everyone. And thanks for the version bump, kattla.

haggard

I dont care what you think, what kattla just posted is what some one should have done in the first place, then i'd HAVE done it my self thank you soooo very very very much the best player/browser is whole again... and the peasents rejoice

ajpan

Doesn't work with french translation ; songbird asks to reload in english... and doesn't work better. Very "bumpy" !

BR-Charles

Please Kattla, do a review. It's possible bump with no problem? I think it works, cause it tried by myself. But you should make it available for all songbird users.

Its so nice!

BR-Charles

Kattla, unhappy is out. I loved this add-on, it's so useful. I'm sure users would like and would want by default. Please, somebody help! I did a bump (thanks kattla for the explanation) but I would like let this add-on for others users experience too.

HemiDak

There's no need to wait for an update, nor is there a need to mess around with with the .xpi/.rdf file. I'm running Songbird 1.4.3 with Customize Filter Pane 0.2.3 and no problems. How you ask? Use the add-on Nightly Tester Tools, and you can use Customize Filter Pane as well. This also works with older add-ons for other programs such as Firefox and Thunderbird.

EveKnight75

@stevo:

Have you taken over the development of this add-on? If so, do you have any idea when it might be updated for 1.4?

I do miss using it, but I also understand that the UI changes for Purple Rain included code changes when it came to pane interaction (amongst other things) and that a simple version bump could lead to a buggy implementation. Which means a proper update will take time.

I would've been willing to give it a shot myself, but I honestly don't know the first thing about coding past basic CSS so I don't think volunteering myself for updating this is a good option.

B_old

I manually bumped the version to work with version 1.4/purple rain and it seems to work fine. It still would be nice to see a proper update.

thevan

This and NowPlaying are by far the most important addons for me and many others. It's a shame that we have to manually update this one to get it to work.

thevan

Yeah I've been manually bumping it for awhile now. It seems to work fine really.. only the icon looks very odd in Purple Rain. I understand if you have some moral objection to continuing development with the drop of Linux support, but I'm sure it would be possible if you don't. They have only dropped supporting it, the builds are still updated and compatible with Linux AFAIK.

BR-Charles

I'm sorry about this, but I would like to say to all that this wonderful songbird add-on should continued, at least for other member of songbird team. It cant be abandoned.

thevan

I might try it... Bumping the version number is easy enough and there's only a few minor glitches even in 1.10.