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Panels UI (Reborn)

By: santirod

Version: 1.3.0, released on 2026-10-01 (archived)

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Change log:

Features
  • Peak meter panel: the skin's "Peakmeter" panels are now drawn natively — LED bars per channel on a -60..0 dB scale with a held-peak marker, in the skin's accent colour.
  • Album Art panel: the skin's "Album Art" panels are now drawn natively — the now-playing cover, fitted without distortion. Like the peak meter, it no longer needs a Default UI element, so it works on macOS too.
  • Tray icon ($settray): on Windows a notification-area icon — click to show/hide the player, right-click for play/pause, stop, previous/next, show/hide and exit — and minimising sends the player to the tray. On macOS the same menu opens from a menu-bar icon.
  • GDI+-style outlines: $gp_set_pen and $gp_draw_rectangle, next to the existing brush fills.
  • Playlist keyboard navigation: arrows, Page Up/Down and Home/End (Shift extends the selection, Ctrl moves only the focus), Enter plays, and typing a few letters jumps to a title or album artist. "Show now playing" scrolls to the track.
  • Playlist drag and drop: drag selected tracks to reorder them (undoable), and drop files or folders from Explorer / Finder onto the playlist — anywhere else in the window they are added to the end of the active playlist.
  • Lyrics: a timing correction per track on top of the global one, "Search online again" to replace wrong lyrics (even ones from tags or a sidecar file), and instrumental tracks from lrclib.net shown as such.
  • macOS Preferences page (Display > Panels UI (reborn)): skins root folder, active skin, main script and accent colour, applied immediately.
  • Full-resolution rendering on Retina displays (macOS).
  • Skin colours for the native panels: color.<role> and color.<panel>.<role> in foo_ui_panels.ini (playlist, album browser, quick search, lyrics, seek bar, volume). Skins without them look as before.

Bug Fixes
  • Skin buttons that run menu commands now pick the command by its full menu path (e.g. "Playback/Random") instead of the first command with the same name.
  • The playlist updates when the playlist changes instead of redrawing every second, and no longer re-reads every track on each mouse move — large playlists stay responsive.
  • The player window shows foobar2000's icon in the taskbar and Alt+Tab.

Other
  • The engine's parsing logic (scripts, foo_ui_panels.ini, lyrics, menu actions) is covered by unit tests, run on every build.

Supported systems: Windows 64-bit, macOS.

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