0.0.5 feature request - Exclude skip by configurable pattern

[Jari Aalto]

Would it be possible to add a TEXT FIELD that would be matched against %path% to skip treating certain files. Even better would if the TEXT FIELD would accept standard title format syntax, like "NOT %path% HAS string", but I'd be glad to see any way to exclude tracks.

I'd like to NOT add silence for certain 0 second files that I'm using in playlists for SEPARATING things from each other to "compose sets of files".

An example:

   --- separator, genre blues ---
   track 1
   track 2
   --- separator, genre latin ---
   track 3
   track 4

Currently the problem is that EVERY item in playlist gets added post-track silence. In the above case transition from track 2 to 3 causes double silence because the "separator" also gets and added silence .... which would be nice to ignore by instructing the module to skip it by a confiurable PATTERN.

See live example in attachment

[Lars Viklund]

I understand the need for such a feature and it might be worth looking into.

However, I don't see much hope for evaluating titleformatting from a DSP context, some of that requires main thread access.

Are those entries actual physical files or some existing protocol like silence:? There might be a possibility to register a custom protocol that the DSP is aware of and which doesn't emit any audio.

I'll be away from any environment where I can work on this component for a week or so, but I'll keep it in mind.

[Jari Aalto]

Physical files. They are simply audio files (length of 0 sec), whose TAGS have been set to be used in the playlist context; like Artist set to "-------" etc. If the module could offer a TEXT field to to match using substring() against the full path name that would suffice.

An improvement would be to accept, list of strings to match in format:

TEXT;TEXT;TEXT

Program would parse list by the ";" separator and try to match each one against the %path%.

[Lars Viklund]

Version 0.0.6 is uploaded now, DSP configuration has a field for semicolon-separated strings to match verbatim case-sensitive against the path part of the location. Note that there's no whitespace trimming, so beware whitespace around your semicolons.

Please give it a try.

[Lars Viklund]

Should be resolved with commit b276d5e.

[Jari Aalto]

Thanks. Tried but something is still needed.

The component does not bring up the configuration menu as in version 0.0.5. I tested with both 1.3.9 (my current player due to components being more compatible with it) and 1.3.15.

Foobar > Playback > DSP manager: (1) Add to DSP chain in "Affix silence" (2) Press button [Configure selected] => Nothing happens.

[Lars Viklund]

I can reproduce that, once I tried it in a foobar2000 installation I hadn't used while developing.

I'll try to poke at it during the week.

[Lars Viklund]

Pushed 0.0.7 to components site, this time with preset code that actually works in 3ae2cfd.

[Jari Aalto]

Thanks, works like charm in Foobar 1.3.9!

A minor suggestion: instead of text "Ignore files ...", make it read "Ignore paths matching ..." as I assume the whole path is available for matching.

[Lars Viklund]

Fixed that for the future, nice to hear it works well.