Topic: 4.5 Advanced Configuration - Audio Player Config Line Explanation

[GTS]

This Article Will (try to ;]) Explain WinAMP's/foobar2000's Configuration Line Under GTSdll .

GTSdll now detects if there is a ID3 Tag present, and if it is, it can display information according to the config line (either the default one, or the one you, the user, wrote):

NOTE: All info is for the currently playing track and as written in the file's ID3 or Vorbis Tag.

[player] - Returns WinAmp/foobar2000 in this case (it is used in other sections of GTSdll, hence the need for it)
[artist] - artist of track.
[album] - album of track.
[year] - year of track.
[title] - title/date of track.
[track] - track number.
[ext] - extension of file, usually mp3 or ogg.
[pos] - position in file (min:sec).
[length] - duration of file (min:sec).
[genre] - genre of track.
[comment] - comment of track.
[plpos] - position in playlist.
[pllen]    - length of playlist.
[bitrate] - bitrate of track (kbps)
[size] - filesize of track
[vbr] - VBR if mp3 is variable bitrate
[version] - WinAmp/foobar2000 Version
[http] - url of stream, if streaming (shoutcast radio).
[pc] - progress through the song in percentage.
[res] - resolution of video, if the file in Winamp is avi or mpg
[fps] - Frames Per Second of video, if the file in Winamp is avi or mpg
[codec] - used codec of video, if the file in Winamp is avi or mpg

Some of these are always present, like [player], or attributes that every song file has, like
[size],[length],[bitrate], etc.

But some of these can be missing, meaning they werent written in the tag, like [artist], [year], [track] and so on. So, in order to keep things tidy, GTS added the feature of displaying certain info
ONLY when the corresponding info exists in the tag. These tags are : [artist], [album], [title], [genre], [comment], [year], [res], [fps], [codec], [vbr], [size], [length] and [http]. Before you ask, the last three exist because
of radio streams support - shoutcast doesnt keep that info.

You can make these appear only when they exist by placing two similer tags like this:
[?artist]Song is made by [artist], they rock ! *.* [\artist]
anything between the [?] and [\] tags would appear only if the right info exists, like artist name in
our example .

The last option is the progress bar. When places, it shows a small (or big, depends on your selection ) bar that shows how far are you into the song .

[bar=length,progress-color,progress-left-color]

length is the total size of the bar (100% of the song), progress-color is the color for the part of the bar the song has already passed and progress-left-color is the color of the part that remains of the song's playtime. Note that you can skip coloring by using -1 instead of a color number.

Possible colors are:

Note: These are the default mIRC colors, they may differ.

Well, there it is. Hope this helped anyone.. if anything is still a mystery to you, and you require our help or just wanna comment on the article(s), join us @ irc.rizon.net #gtsdll.

Have Fun ! Written By ChaosBlade For GTSdll
[ updated by GTS | Updated again by ChaosBlade, Typo fixup ]

[Zero]

will there be later support for the Composer tag?

[GTS]

yes, probably

[necromantula]

thank you so much for doing this. it is so helpful and useful

[m3lt]

Would be cool if there's a possibilty to show the name of the folder the track is in, this is usually much more interesting than the rest of the stuff e.g. when it comes to scene rls

[chaosblade]

Gah, these need updating. You already have the [path=N] identifiers, Where N is between 1-4 for folder depth.

[chilibert]

Is there a way to hide something? when listening to ogg stream, the remaining time part always shows "00:00 [] INF%". Is there a way to make it hide it when that appears?

[chilibert.]

Still me. Is it possible to make a tag hide if specific text is used? like 00:00?

[chaosblade]

every tag has a if-empty equivalent. for example, [?artist][artist][/artist] only shows the artist tag if it isn't empty.

[Yusuke]

hmmm, iunno if it's something i'm doing or what but with Winamp 5.55 (and a few earlier versions or maybe all of winamp 5), GTSDll stops getting id3 info and only shows artist and song title. I haven't changed anything cept getting teh new winamp

[GTS]

I know of this issue: http://www.gts-stuff.com/index.php/topic,1663.0.html

Try that

[FichteFoll]

I use Winamp 5.572 but gtsdll does not detect vbr for any song that has vbr. Using " [vbr]" it always displays "cbr" and using "[?vbr]([vbr])[\vbr]" it, of course, displays nothing.
Where could the problem be? Is it me or does gtsdll not detect vbr on every version?