columns_ui VS foo_jscript_panel

If you're on Columns UI it supports PNG images and the toolbar resizes to the image height. Not much you can do on Default UI, which only supports ICO files and a fixed toolbar size. (Though I have not checked if this has changed in v2, probably not). Can grab image files from Icons8 and recolor (etc) and download a custom pixel size.

Media Player | foobar2000 using Columns UI

I'm just a rookie when it comes to customizing, but the basic tool columns UI was useful for me (https://yuo.be/columns-ui) There are some premade themes such as eole, but as far as I've seen they don't offer as many options when it comes to colors. And for the audio visualizers - I like to use foo_musical_spectrum. You can easily change colors of the bars etc.

Plz use columns UI series components to modify your foobar2000 interface. They work very well.

Try the v2 alpha release of Columns UI which has dark mode.

Github issue : Add ability to hide playlist view group titles if they are blank

Look at the bottom of the page in the first post. (https://github.com/reupen/columns_ui/actions)

Github projects deleted - https://github.com/marc2k3/foo_jscript_panel

For DUI, you need another artwork component - might as well be JScript Panel with the Album Art sample. (JSP is a little more light weight than Spider Monkey Panel, but both include the same sample)

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "JSP"

There are two ways that I briefly explained over here - 1) javascript using JScript Panel / Spider Monkey Panel (best if already using either component), or 2) command line using Scheduler + Run Main components.

For cover art, what size are you talking? What image type? I'm not sure what need there is to feed foobar massive images, that probably just use up memory and slow everything down. If I have larger original images, I keep them in a different name / folder, and give foobar a downscaled version. Also could view them in a dedicated image tab rather than using a playlist viewer for this task. Something like the Thumbs.js script for JSP / SMP might handle your large images.

A lot of that would be javascript based - Spider Monkey Panel and/or JScript Panel.

You could try something like JScript Panel with the included 'JS Playlist' sample. Though it would not look exactly like your "concept idea" - I think the artwork only shows for the group header (so one thumbnail per artist?) - I guess you could make a custom grouping by track %title% to get one thumbnail per track in a playlist? I'm not super familiar with these scripts so perhaps u/marc2k3 would know more (of the entire situation).

They are likely javascript panels - Spider Monkey Panel or JScript Panel. Load a panel into your layout and import one of the included sample scripts (like "Playback Controls").