Can't get it to work: drag&drop to Foobar2000 in button

[Guillaume]

I have a button in the TC button bar for Foobar2000 (an audio player). Now when I drag a folder to that button, the strange thing is that the playlist order isn't alphabetically. But when I drag a folder from within TC to Foobar2000, the files are sorted alphabetically...

Next thing is, how can I add multiple files (all selected) to the playlist when dragging them to the button? Normally this will only add the first selected file to the Foobar2000 playlist...

[sqa_wizard]

how can I add multiple files (all selected) to the playlist

All you need is lst2str.exe from http://www.ghisler.com/tools.htm

For details of usage see:

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=402

[Guillaume]

I'm sorry, I can't get it to work

Command:

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E:\Program Files\Total Commander\lst2str.exe

Parameters:

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/X:"E:\Program Files\FooBar2000\foobar2000.exe" /L:%L

Error message:

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You haven't specified either /X: or /L: parameters (...)

[sqa_wizard]

May try lst2multi for your purpose which is similar

Dont forget to quote %L

/X:"E:\Program Files\FooBar2000\foobar2000.exe" /L:"%L"

[Guillaume]

May try lst2multi for your purpose which is similar

Dont forget to quote %L

/X:"E:\Program Files\FooBar2000\foobar2000.exe" /L:"%L"

Already tried quoting %L, doesn't work...

[fnheiden]

Already tried quoting %L, doesn't work...

From TC's help file:
You can also drop files on the button bar. If you drag a file onto an icon, the corresponding program is started with this file (or the first marked file).

So it seems, that you have to press the button on the Button Bar to let TC pass the right parameters to lst2str.

Regards,
~ Florian

[Guillaume]

Ok, works, but only some of the files I select are addes (the first xx - varies)

[fnheiden]

To enqueue the selected files and folders to the foobar2000 playlist specify the parameter /add like

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/X:"E:\Program Files\FooBar2000\foobar2000.exe" /L:"%L" /S:"/add"

~ Florian

[Guillaume]

I know, but that isn't the problem. It simply doesn't add all the selected files to the playlist...

[fnheiden]

Oh sorry - I didn't understand you. You're right - the same happens at my machine - weird ...

~ Florian

[Gregory]

Ok, works, but only some of the files I select are addes (the first xx - varies)

Maybe, that's because of 256 chars limit:

* You can now define your prefered command line length, however, be warned, some programs [winamp ...] cannot handle more than the good old 256 bytes, so to conserve valuable space use short DOS names, in TCmd's case use lowercase switches (%l, %m etc..)

[Guillaume]

Yes, that's it. There's a significant difference between the number of files added when using long filenames (%L) and using 8.3-format (%l). Nevertheless, using %l doesn't help that much, since there are still files not being added because of the commandline character limitation...

[Gregory]

Try to use WALaunch4TC . This program is written for Winamp 3 but works with second version too. It passes m3u playlist made from selected files to WinAMP

[Guillaume]

Try to use WALaunch4TC . This program is written for Winamp 3 but works with second version too. It passes m3u playlist made from selected files to WinAMP

That's just disgusting, it opens a DOSBox *puke*

[Gregory]

Check 'run minimized' and you will never see it