Global variables were created as a way of speeding up playlist formatting, by separating the parts of formatting that is common to all your columns, and only processing it once instead of for each column. It works by defining variables which you can access in your column display strings.

This string, in the globals configuration page, is where you define your variables.

The new format is

variable1=value1
variable2=value2
///and so forth...

Use character in corner of the configuration page for separator, multiple adjacent separators are treated as one. $char(3)s will not work due to foobar blocking them.

Note: You can only define globals in the global string - i.e. you cannot access defined globals.

You can access gloval variables in you display and colour strings as special fields - i.e. %_variable1%.