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Ysl

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Notifications not showing
« on: March 09, 2026, 09:52:55 AM »
Hi
I would like to show the notifications on my left corner window when I press a shortcut key (CTRL+>) but it work very randomly and most of the time, it's NOT showing...
When I skip tracks, notifications appears almost every time..
Tried many settings, still the same result, is this a know issue ?
My aim is to see Track Number/Total Tracks (1/24) because for unknown reasons, It seem this information can not appear on the main display..
So please, could you look at it or, best for me, show Track Number/Total Tracks (1/24) on the main interface
I'm running the latest Build #23960
Thank you again for your great work which I enjoy everyday :)

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Re: Notifications not showing
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2026, 08:46:25 AM »
That's almost completely down to how the skin notifier has been coded & I don't have any plans to mess around with such things (you can always try to modify the skin's maki scripts or find someone who'll do it for you).

There is an option iirc on the appearance prefs page that can try to override the songticker text atf string but it can often not work well with modern skins as it's a big hack which'd be the simple way to try to have the track total show (otherwise it's another modify the skin situation).

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Re: Notifications not showing
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2026, 06:36:17 PM »
Thanks for you reply Dro

It seem there are no %Totaltracks% (to be found here https://getwacup.com/atf_help.html)  in the the songticker text atf string....

Could you tell me what do I need to edit/modify/understand the .maki files ?


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Re: Notifications not showing
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2026, 07:06:27 PM »
That's because the atf value is %playlist_length% (paired with %playlist_position% from the default string on the appearance prefs page). As for that help page, it's incomplete from being a hacked up copy of what winamp used as means to try to work out what I needed to implement & I just don't have it in me at the moment to go through what's not on there vs my changes. The old winamp forums (assuming those are still running) had information on how to get up & running for wasabi / winamp3 skin scripting or any of the skinners still seeing things on here who might have more time to help than I do.
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Re: Notifications not showing
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2026, 08:19:51 PM »
Thank you again Dro ! %playlist_position%/%playlist_length% seem to work perfectly in the taskbar and the songticker :) :)