FoF - Song Manager 3.24

[blazingamer]

I don't know, it seems like it ended up swapping the names of all the songs that didn't have midi's that it could read, meaning it switched my gh rock the 80's and PH II, III songs and RB.

[blazingamer]

Sorry to bump this but I was wondering if you could add a function to this that will allow one to delete a track or difficulty to a song. This would be helpful for puppetz hero were he only has Guitar track and Hard and Expert difficulties but it lists all difficulties. Then if you could add a function that would delete all difficulties and parts that are only one note, then it'd be perfect. I think this existed in the old one but doesn't in the new java version.

[TypusMensch]

Sorry to bump this but I was wondering if you could add a function to this that will allow one to delete a track or difficulty to a song. This would be helpful for puppetz hero were he only has Guitar track and Hard and Expert difficulties but it lists all difficulties. Then if you could add a function that would delete all difficulties and parts that are only one note, then it'd be perfect. I think this existed in the old one but doesn't in the new java version.

No. In the old version the program (<= version 2.5) search only for songs with notes fewer than 5 notes per difficulty, e.g. the "stupid yellow one note" like in puppetz hero (mostly made with freetar editor :/ ). Ok. That i can re-build, but to delete this track i prefer free anvil studio or EOF all the time. The Song Manager analyzed only the midis, it doesn't write/edit something with the midis. But java allows to delete some tracks in the midis (if it can read this)... so i ask, if it is really essential to implement it because there is EOF ?

[jolson42]

This used to have a preview.ogg generator, right? What happened to that?

[Death Legion]

Suggestion: re-implement the "sorting by whateveryouwant" option, and the option to show all others properties of a songs, directly in the song list (all of this as in 2.5), cause it's very useful.

Example: I don't like to have numbers before a song name (e.g. "4. Sweet Home Alabama").
With the 2.5 version (which I didn't uninstall :p), I was able to delete the numbers before by sorting them by song title and then deleting them one by one rapidly. With the new version I can't sort them by title so...

Same goes if I want to search for songs with a preview.ogg. With the new version, it's not shown.
Etc...

So it would very cool to re-implement this

But it's still a very useful tool

[TypusMensch]

Preview.ogg generator was in version <= 2.5. i can't use the same generator because there was an executable (*.exe), that works only for window$, so i have to re-implement this also for java for all operation systems. i'm searching for a library to do that.

the "extended table" like in version <= 2.5 is a little bit harder to programming in java, because delphi (older version) give the programmer many options to realize it. i will optimize this with swingX for java, so the table looks like the old version. then you can sort them with a click on the header of the table and also you can (de-)select the columns, e.g.:



Edit: Give me 3 or 4 days :;):

[contrast]

Simply awesome. Thanks a lot for making it cross-platform - I'm getting some really good use out of it now. Now if only I could figure out how to adjust the text size in Java apps (I only play FoF on my HTPC). :-\

One feature I'd really love to see is the ability to create links to all the songs in a separate directory. I have all my songs sorted by the career set they came from (e.g., Rock Bank/, Guitar Hero 3/, etc.), but also have links to them in All for easier access. (Sorry if this was already mentioned; I searched the thread for "link" and predictably didn't turn up anything relevant.)

[EDIT]
I just now read your last post and thought I'd mention MEncoder (part of the MPlayer project). I know it's cross-platform and open-source, and am 90% sure it'd be capable of what you're talking about (it's generally used for video, but can handle audio as well), although I have no idea how implementable it'd be in regards to a Java program.

[TypusMensch]

Now if only I could figure out how to adjust the text size in Java apps (I only play FoF on my HTPC). :-\

Actually i have set the text to Tahoma 10 Plain. I can build in a option in the settings to set size manually?!?!??

[contrast]

I wasn't really requesting it, as I doubt it's something many people would use, but if it's just a quick fix and you want to, that'd be awesome.

BTW, I slapped together an icon - http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=538987 - and wrote a .desktop file and un/installer script for Linux - http://www.mediafire.com/?wtz1jqtwtgv. If anyone's interested, just extract the archive into FoF_SM307, open a terminal in FoF_SM307/Linux -> run ./FoF_SM_Linux_Installer -> done (this installs the program, a script to run and/or uninstall the program, a menu entry, and the icon). TypusMensch, if you want to include this in a future release, let me know and I can clean it up a bit. I was just gonna remove the .exe from the archive you posted, create a new one with the aforementioned folder included and post that, but I wasn't sure about the license and didn't want to step on any toes.

[TypusMensch]

TypusMensch, if you want to include this in a future release, let me know and I can clean it up a bit.

Yeah, thx. That would be great.

[contrast]

Done. I actually just went ahead and made a Linux-only tarball (I guess it'd work for Macs also - I just removed the .exe and added the files I mentioned in the previous post). The installer script now checks for a previous installation of FoF_SM and offers to remove it before continuing with the installation. I also appended instructions for un/installation to the top of the readme. Feel free to add the following to the main post:

A tarball for Linux can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=766cd6fa0fd25581d2db6fb9a8902bda. To install, extract the archive, open a terminal in the new directory (FoF_SM<version#>-linux), and run:

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./FoF_SM_Linux_Installer

This will install the program and a menu entry. To uninstall, just run:

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FoF_SM --uninstall

[TypusMensch]

... last updates:

Version 3.05:
- added new options on tab "career"
- added new function "autocreate" in Tool "Titles.ini Maker"
- added new helpfile

Version 3.06:
- added new "Save tracklist" dialog
- fixed function "Rename directories" (doesn't rename the tutorial directory)
- fixed function "Delete really all career entries"

Version 3.07:
- added new "Save tracklist" dialog options

Version 3.10:
- added extended table
- added sort functions
- added new icon (thx to "contrast")
- added Linux installler (thx to "contrast")

Version 3.11:
- fixed "count" textfield

Version 3.12:
- added function to delete tracks and/or events in "Midi-Parser" (Tutorial)
- added colored notes table (yellow background for zero notes, green background for more than 5 notes, otherwise red)
- added "Tracklist Function" - "Find songs with less than 6 notes"
- fixed some little problems

[blazingamer]

Aww sweet, I missed this, thanks for that, this will really come in handy now.

[jiiiiimmmy]

Yeah, this program is definitely going to come in handy with the latest versions!
Thanks man! Good work too!
=]

[ghfan]

Re-add the options to run FOF/EOF, and add the ability to run FeedBack.