garbanzo

I've played with Plex and FileBot and I really like what they do, but the Plex player just leaves a lot to be desired. Have a look at foobar, it's extremely powerful and very lightweight. Plus you can customize 95% of it :)

No worries, I'm just brainstorming :) I really like to organize things. I've spent an extraordinary amount of time with foobar and Directory Opus in order to get things set up just right. Now that I've found an app that lets me launch anything on my PC with custom images, and to tag each item in any way I like, I'm just a little over-excited!

After playing with it a little it can sort of get me where I want. It's good that they're dynamic - rather like autoplaylists in a music app like foobar or similar. But in order to get what I want to get, I would have to have a huge list of custom filters, all with prefixes to sort them properly (2D Platform - Super Mario Bros, or Text Adventure - Infocom). To go further would be even more complicated - finding all handheld Super Mario Bros. games from 4th gen systems, or finding all Zork games and arranging them in the main window by release year for example. Multi-level filtering is much cleaner (select "Text Adventure" in the first filter (genre), "Infocom" in the second (publisher), then "Zork" in the third (series)). I think it would be particularly important if, as I've seen implied here in the forums, LB eventually expands to fully support other media. Think iTunes...

SentaiBrad said garbanzo said Cool idea, I wouldn't have thought to do that. Thanks! A second level of filtering would really be a nice feature. Imagine a second sidebar stacked below the current one. The top could filter to platform and the bottom to genre for example. With a system like that, you could use the top level for broad categories, and wouldn't need multiple instances of the app. Is your goal not attainable with the custom filters? Wowzers. I hadn't seen that feature. Awesome!

Cool idea, I wouldn't have thought to do that. Thanks! A second level of filtering would really be a nice feature. Imagine a second sidebar stacked below the current one. The top could filter to platform and the bottom to genre for example. With a system like that, you could use the top level for broad categories, and wouldn't need multiple instances of the app.

A nice start! Still a lot of work ahead. I'm looking forward to adding all my old Apogee games I might run a separate instance of LB for Z-Machine and other text adventure games. It just seems appropriate to keep those separated.

Also, it would be nice if CTRL+mousewheel would move the cover size slider up and down. I'm really getting into this program. Purchased a premium license, loading it up with my favorite ROMs. I've been using QuickPlay for several years, but this might just replace it! I'm glad to know it's being actively developed, and that there is more goodness to come. Happy to help in any way I can :)

Great program! I've been waiting for something like this to come along. A few requests: 1. Ability to turn off or edit the black glow around game titles. 2. Ability to choose a solid color for the background. 3. Ability to force aspect ratio of screenshots per system, or to somehow make them appear more uniform in the details panel without having to manually resize each image. 4. If the "use an emulator" checkbox is not checked, it should suppress the warning about "you need an emulator to play this". I am using HyperLaunch to run my ROMs so I don't need to use the emulator option. 5. Arrange By is a nice feature, but it could be improved by also allowing sorting. I would like to arrange by series and sort by date released, for example. Thanks for taking the time to consider my ideas :)