Here we go, I finally think that this version is ready for release – I had planned to launch this on June 1st – glad I didn’t make that known to anyone at the time. I have been hard at work making changes, the big new additions are out of the box support for Lyrics (I finally caved on this one – the component used is included in the package), full transparency support, library filter support and the Theme and Background selectors.

All component and font requirements are listed when you first open the configuration, an installation display will show what you do not have installed and shall provide a click-able link to download it.

FofR V0.9 needs PanelsUI Version 13.7+

Version 0.9

Menu Buttons: Buttons Now Consistent across all tabs, “Song Info” button removed, just click the text area on the

Now Playing section instead to close/hide the box. This is much faster and easier.

Menu Buttons: Full Mode button now increases fb2k window size to a minimum of 800 pixels (if it’s currently smaller than that in tabbed mode) when Full Mode selected to allow correct display.

Menu Buttons: Cog now opens menu but defaults to the “controls” section with seekbar, search, etc.

Now Playing: Artist Images now show in Full Mode

Now Playing: New Image Toolbar that appears on roll over with image options (hide/show artist image, switch to scaled cover art, hide/show text, scale top margin, hide/show spectrum, hide/show progress bar, hide/show quick playlist)

Now Playing: Added Next and Previous buttons to left and right of album art (appear on hover)

Now Playing: Added Option to add/remove a gloss on the cover art

Now Playing: New Quick SCPL Playlist using transparency in PanelsUI v0.13, with optional side image showing a preview of selected track’s cover art.

Now Playing: Improved the Progress Bar, now also displays track length, year and genre.

Now Playing: Added Buttons to do Google Video, Google, Last.fm and Wikipedia quick searches of Artist

Mini Now Playing: Fixed some display bugs

Spectrum: Fixed resize bug that placed Spectrum in wrong place

Menu: Removed Menu Toolbar as now available as button, also caused problems with VS clashes.

Full Mode: Added Borders (optional), tidied it up – combined all playlist control/browsing into one tab, smarter solution. Split popup browse and browse tab removed.

Lyrics: Added Support for Lyrics in form of new tab, code created by jclim00, uses foo_lyricsdb.dll component, download here: http://lyrics.mirkforce.net/download.html or use packaged version

Global Background: Added support for a global background image, using transparency of Track Display, SCPL and Library Filter.

Theme Selector: New Theme Selector Tab, Theme IDs and Theme Names

Themes: 2 new themes, Graphite-Blue and Silver-Blue

Background Selector: Choose your global background, enable/disable, support for unlimited number of images. Put new backgrounds in the backgrounds directory following the naming structure (e.g. 1.jpg, 2.jpg,…)

Installation: On Installation diagnostics will check which components/fonts/images are installed/located and if not will give download links or highlight the problem. Can be re-opened by clicking the diagnostics link in the menu.

Sort Panel: Re-arranged to include a Presets menu

Known Bugs:

Transparency can show the wrong image when backgrounds/themes are changed, an fb2k restart will fix this. This is a PanelsUI issue.

Time for some screenshots:

Transparency and Global backgrounds are turned on by default. The redrawing of large images and text shadows shall inevitably reduce performance. For those wishing to optimise, turn off transparency via the background selector (see this image for help). Turning off transparency in SCPL cannot YET be automated so you need to change this manually, to do so right click the SCPL, select Settings then at the bottom click the “Transparent Background” checkbox. This will improve your scroll speeds, don’t forget to re-enable it if you switch back. Here’s an image showing the box.

Update: Version 0.9.1 :

Fixed ‘square’ issue

Adjusted requirements on installation to include Wingdings 3 font.

For troubleshooting check the guide:

FofR Configuration Guide (now updated for Version 0.9)



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