Acropolis’ Blog

* WMP7+ needed, also the requirements listed in my component post *

current version: 0.3.8

examples of valid stream urls:
mms://www.stream.com/stream
rtsp://www.stream.com/stream
mslive://|mms://www.stream.com/stream|/
mslive://|mms://www.stream.com/stream|live|/
mslive://|c:\stream.mp3|/

to avoid foobar uses other decoders, url like this:
“mms://www.stream.com/stream.wma” is recommended to be specified as “mslive://|mms://www.stream.com/stream.wma|/”

examples of valid asx playlist:
mslive://|http://www.stream.com/stream.asx|/
mslive://|http://www.stream.com/stream.asx|list|/
c:\stream.asx

“list” and “live” are to override the content type detected by mslive, list is playlist, live is stream.

change log

0.3.8
- added an option to suppress playlist specific dialogs
- fixed little memory leak

0.3.7
- fixed a bug that was introduced when fixing another bug

0.3.6
- fixed another tiny little bug

0.3.5
- fixed tiny little bug that try to play CDDA://

0.3.4
- fixed a minor bug of crashing from the Add Location dialog
- fixed incorrect display of utf-8 encoded asx

0.3.3
- fixed always play the same entry as if hide playlist entries is enabled
- “Add Location (mslive)” item now accepts mslive location syntax as well

0.3.2
- fixed opening asx file (no extension) transfered from browser, it can’t open

0.3.1
- fixed if server is busy, will give up trying other reference urls

0.3
- heavily rewrite
- ENTREF will not be expanded, even when tagging (only local asx is supported)
- only root asx entries will be listed, recursive asx will be handled internally
- support source switch and msn radio stream type
- dynamic display of meta data of the stream
- able to detect if is asx
- able to load asx to foobar from browser
- will loop through all the reference urls if the first cannot connect
- options now available under the input section in the foobar preference dialog
- option to show playlist entries as only one
- option to display the track info dynamically
- “Add Location (mslive)” item added to the main menu, simplify the need to add the weird url syntax

0.3.3
- codepage combo boxes items are sorted now, it was auto sorted in xp, but in vista, it is a mess.

just to remind you, needs vc8 sp1 runtime libraries

update:
0.2.6
- fixed when it’s gonna stop playback after the current one, the gap/silence at the end of the current song will be lost
- a bit more code optimisation

0.2.5.1
- fixed the crackle sound produced during track change when both gapless and fading enabled

0.2.5
- when gapless or fading is disabled, their memory buffers will be freed
- little code optimisation
- minor bugs fixed

0.2.4
- fixed the crackle sound produced during track change when both gapless and fading enabled
- during fading when encounter another track change, it will not crossfade now
- the name “Crossfader” is changed to “Gapless Crossfader”

0.2.3
- finally eliminated the annonying incorrect fading behavior
- slightly improved gap detection

0.2.2
- fixed incorrect fading implementation when gapless and fading both enabled
- fixed audio samples in buffer will not be played when encounters different sample rate
- fixed some other buffer managment problems

0.2.1
- for some fading length values would make incorrect output, now fixed
- little changes to the menu items

0.2
- resampling function removed
- integrated with foo_dsp_gapless, which is now discontinued
- some minor changes

update:
foo_dsp_gapless 0.2
- rewrote, now behaves like the one in 0.8.3, even the setting.
so you should remove the current setting in foobar to avoid any unexpected errors

update:
foo_dsp_gapless 0.1.3
foo_dsp_crossfader 0.1.7.2
- they both had a common bug that produce white noise, now fixed.

update:
foo_dsp_gapless 0.1.2
- gaps will not be removed after seeking

update:
foo_dsp_gapless 0.1.1
foo_dsp_crossfader 0.1.7.1
- they both had a common bug, now fixed.

foo_dsp_gapless 0.1
- provides gapless playback, probably a lot of people has been long for this.

foo_dsp_crossfader 0.1.7
- added a resampling function internally, so different sample rate songs can have the fading effect.

update:
- jump group is moved to the EDIT main menu
- added a title format viewer

probably the update of this component is a bit too fast, but today I was customising the layout of foobar, I found it is quite handy if can have a title format evaluator next to you. I know in the foobar preference’s dialog already has one, but it just too inconvenient.
this is my new foobar look, it’s cool, isn’t it?

update:
1. invert select is moved out of selection group
2. jump and expand group now support genre
3. expand by user defined tag is now supported
4. added repeat A-B type of playback
更新:
1. invert select 搬離了selection組別
2. jump 和 expand 組別現支援genre
3. expand指令新增了使用者定義的tag
4. 新增了重播A-B這種播放方式

FlashGet Database Generator

Current version is 1.00, and I believe it is matured.
this is a handy console mode utility that helps you a lot when you have a massive list of files to download and want to save them in different locations.

e.g. if you have a situation like:

“http://www.web.com/A/001.zip” to “http://www.web.com/A/100.zip”
“http://www.web.com/B/001.zip” to “http://www.web.com/B/100.zip”
..
..
“http://www.web.com/Z/001.zip” to “http://www.web.com/Z/100.zip”

and want those files under A to be saved to “C:\A”, B to “C:\B”, and Z to “C:\Z”, then this utility is for you.

the usage is simple:

in console mode, type “type list.txt | fdb”, the file “out.jcd” will be created, you can then load it with flashget and start to download, and after you’ve finished the downloads, you can reload the default database for flashget.
also if you like, you can type “type list.txt | fdb name.jcd”, if you want to create a named output file.

as you can see, the utility takes its input from standard input, like any unix utiltities. type “fdb –help” if you forgot how to use it.

the content of “list.txt” is the actual urls and the locations to save,
e.g.

http://www.web.com/A/001.zip;C:\A
http://www.web.com/B/001.zip;C:\B
http://www.web.com/Z/001.zip;C:\Z

hope you enjoy it.

annoucement:
starting from foo_menu_addons 0.3.7, all of my update or new components will need the vc8 sp1 runtime libraries, it can be downloaded in my component post.

公告:
由foo_menu_addons 0.3.7開始, 以後我的新插件或更新一律需要vc8 sp1 runtime libraries, 它可在我的插件貼子中找到

NEW UPDATE:
version is now 0.3.7c, no code change, just reuse the new manifest.
vc8 sp1 runtime libraries is needed, can be downloaded in my component post.

新更新:
現在版本為0.3.7c, 沒有源碼改變, 只是再用新的manifest.
需要vc8 sp1 runtime libraries, 可在我的插件貼子中下載

update:
version is now 0.3.7b, increased the speed of expanding items.

更新:
現在版本為0.3.7b, 加快了播放列表項目擴張的速度

just little minor fixes:
1. jump commands didn’t work for the first playlist
2. jump previous wrongly set the first item focused if no focused item

小修正:
1. 跳躍指令對第一個播放列表失效
2. 如果沒有焦點了的播放列表項目, “跳到上一個”這指令會錯誤把第一個播放列表項目設為焦點

eventually have a chance to try the windows vista rtm 6.0.6000, but there’s a bug in the weather gadget of the sidebar, the problem is that it will keep showing “service not available” if your system locale is not English. read along if you are having this problem too.
after doing some searching on the net, I found some people change the code in weather.js, but I just don’t like this way, and I think patching the actual dll would take less time, so here we go.

file to be patched: “C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\wlsrvc.dll”
CRC32: 575ab95c
MD5: 31170caf2b2ff87be9a4d5f53444d166

before you do the patch, you must close the sidebar, take ownership and set the permission of the dll, make a search at google if you don’t know how. then change some bytes of it as:
offset old new
0×0141: 0×40 0×3c
0×76ab: 0×54 0×50

then you can run the sidebar again and should be able to see the weather forecast.