Fixed Columns in Internet Radio section

[wd9895]

Hi DRO & WACUP coders,

I found a tiny cosmetic thing which is a bit: Too many "Genre" on the internet radio menue.
I can't edit (hide) the columns here to individualize my view. Maybe that's the only hickup.

My favorite (default view): Station / Genre / Genre / Bitrate / Format / last seen or visit
Is it possibe to add a column "URL" ?

The error is noticed in x86 and x64 version.
Release: 12. Jan 2026

Thanks!






 

[dro]

The columns of the internet radio view are intentionally hard-coded so that's not a bug imho. You can always re-size the columns not wanting to be seen to be zero width. I don't intend on adding an url column though the tooltip will display it.

The last seen column is the last time that the url was reported as existing from the various services. It's there as a means to potentially determine why it may not be working if it's showing as last seen a few days prior & the url is no longer connecting but there is zero guarantee that any of the urls will be valid since it's based on a single snapshot until the next & stations will very often quickly come & go.

The view having multiple genre columns was the simplest way to represent the potential multiple values that might be reported back from the different radio providers vs allowing the user to see what's there whilst also trying to allow column sorting to make some sort of sense otherwise it'd require more re-processing & trying to create some sort of sensible consolidated string vs the mess of data that can already be reported back (which the processing of the db already tries to filter out into something that fits the main genres seen).

As there's no rhyme or reason afaict in the order that many of the internet radio stations set their reported genre values let alone how accurate that information even is to start with (i.e. the first value may not be the primary genre for a stream).

[wd9895]

The columns of the internet radio view are intentionally hard-coded so that's not a bug imho. You can always re-size the columns not wanting to be seen to be zero width.

The emphasis is on "always re-size the columns". I don't know if you have tested that.
A resize is possible but it's back (full expand) on every application restart.
Is this on purpose, too ?

[dro]

I cannot replicate it resizing the columns within the internet radio back to showing if I've sized them to effectively not appear & had checked that it would save them as zero width before I'd made my reply. If something like the Ctrl+Shift+Numpad Plus action is done to trigger a resize based on the column contents then it's going to show the columns again as that's expected per how the listview is done in other parts of Windows.

If it's not saving their width when you're closing wacup or even just switching to another view & back again (does that behave for you or does it also break?) then my assumption would be something is either preventing the config from being updated or it's not being read back in on loading or something is triggering the column resize action (it's not something I've coded it to do as that would annoy me & is why all of the views be it this or local library, bookmarks, etc will attempt to maintain the last set width) which again I cannot currently replicate with 23528 in either of different x86 & x64 installs.

[wd9895]

Hi Darren,

it doesn't matter if I change the view or re-open the app.

I shring genres 2 to 6 to zero width and it comes back in a different view.
For my purpose it's ok as I can see the bitrate and format and I definitely don't need 6 genres.

If it's not your code please stay relaxed. In the end it's just my opinion and view.

[dro]

It's not ok as you're telling me it's behaving in a manner that is at complete odds with how it's been coded & with what I'm seeing in my testing. Please send me a pm with a copy of your winamp.ini & gen_ml.ini files after having tried to set the columns & closing wacup.

[dro]

I've now added an option to the plug-in for the next build via the filter button menu that attempts to force hide the extra columns without having to change settings files when the expected handling isn't working. That's also coming as part of a few other core changes to see if it's not behaving due to not seeing the correct form of the listview header messages which I've still not seen fail.

[wd9895]

Thank you.
I'm looking forward for the new release