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The old thread was created over 4 years ago and the OP hadn't been touched in over 2 years and it was completely out of date so here is a new version. What is foobar2000? foobar2000 (foobar or f2k) is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. foobar2000 Official Website foobar2000 Features! code: But since version 0.9.5 (The current version is 1.1.8) there has been a new default UI that will look something like this...  In fact on first running f2k you get a dialog to choose your layout...  And customising the layout in the default UI is pretty drat simple, so it is pretty easy to get to something that suits you. For example my layout is this...  Components The components are really what makes f2k so fantastic. These expand the player from a good music player to incredibly powerful and A list of most of the components can be found here though there are some not listed there that can be found in the f2k 3rd party plugins forum. Some examples of plugins that I think are pretty good are... foo_wave_seekbar - provides seekbar functionality (seeking, position indicator) on top of a pretty image of the waveform of the currently playing song. SimPlaylist - a replacement playlist display component that includes album art and grouping. Facets - Media library viewer with linked lists, multiple columns, album art, statistics, and search functions. This gives iTunes like music browsing. foo_uie_lyrics3 - Lyrics downloader and display component that supports timestamped lyrics. But there are heaps of others covering ipod integration, podcasting, tagging, visualisation, searching, statistics, playlist management and heaps of other stuff. Playlists f2k is a playlist based player which means that you can have multiple playlists with different selections in them, either single albums, genres, everything in your library or pretty much anything else. One of the most powerful features of f2k, I think, is autoplaylists. These allow you to write queries to select music from your library that will automatically update with any new music or changes to tagging. For example I have an autoplaylist called "The Usual" with the definition: code:code:Title Formatting Another important part of f2k is title formatting which is the scripting language used for displaying text (and doing other things) within the interface. For example in my sort order settings for playlists I have the following... code:But that's not all title formatting can be used for, it can be used in the playlist display, More about title formatting can be found here. Customization and Skins f2k doesn't really have skins as such, but that hasn't stopped people making some stunningly good looking interfaces. I used to use one of these, but eventually got to the point where the default ui with SimPlaylist and a few other components was everything I wanted and any skin just got in the way of usability. But if this sort of thing does float your boat then probably the best place to look is on Deviant Art. Most of these skins need multiple components, so make sure you read any instructions carefully to get them working. Also, if you run into any skins that require the panels ui component, don't bother with them as panels ui does not work with foobar 0.9.5 or later and is no longer developed. Visualisations f2k comes with a number of inbuilt visualisations but what you probably want is Milkdrop from WinAmp. To get this running you need foo_vis_shpeck and a MilkDrop 2.24 package for foobar. Links foobar2000 Official Website foobar2000 wiki foobar2000 forum Title Formatting Reference Deviant Art foobar skins Official components repository The old thread Feel free to ask questions as there are a bunch of us here that are pretty knowledgeable about f2k and should be able to help you out with most issues.
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f2k also supports mp3 players/iPods http://yuo.be/ipod.php
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Oct 2, 2011 08:10
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It takes a bit of doing to setup, but this works well enough if you're interested in syncing your playcounts with your last.fm stats. As well as being able to love/unlove tracks. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=76772
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Oct 2, 2011 08:22
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I think the Windows 7 integration plugin is handy enough to deserve a nod.
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Oct 2, 2011 08:27
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I had been using lyrics grabber 2 + text display, but foo_uie_lyrics3 is pretty nice, I didn't know there was a newer plugin that did both functions and supports synced lyrics to boot. Only caveat is I don't see a way to batch tag lyrics with it
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Foobar2000? I loving love foobar2000. This is the setup that I've been using and constantly tweaking for about 3 years. I think it's finally approaching near-perfection for what I want it to do.  Mainly DefaultUI, with facets on the left, wsh_panelmod things for the art and last.fm, and a single dockable panel for the lyrics. Highlights of this setup:
If you're interested in copying this: Custom components used to make this happen: http://i.imgur.com/X2ChS.png Install all of those, then download this: http://code.google.com/p/foobar-silk/downloads/detail?name=foo_silk%204.0.zip&can=2&q= and follow all the installation instructions to set it up his way. (this basically links it with your last.fm properly and ensures that the scripts actually load) Once you've done that, download this theme file, double click it, import everything, and it *should* work: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23243/foobar%20theme%20for%20SA.fth i hope i stripped all my personal info  Here's a few of the titleformatting script things I've written to enable this incase anyone finds them useful (some are included in the theme above, some aren't) File name pattern used: (elegantly supports Various Artists and multi-disc albums) quote:$cut(/%codec%/$if(%album artist%,%album artist%,%artist%) - ['['$cut(%date%,4)'] ']%album%/$ifequal(%totaldiscs%,1,,%discnumber%) %tracknumber% $if($strcmp(%artist%,%album artist%),,'['%artist%']' )%title%,235) FacetsUI sorting: quote:$if(%album artist%,%album artist%,%artist%) - ['['$cut(%date%,4)'] ']%album% » '['%codec% '/' $if(%actualbitrate%,%actualbitrate%,$if($strcmp(%codec%,AAC),%bitrate%,)$if($strcmp(%codec%,MP3),$if($strcmp(%codec_profile%,CBR),%codec_profile% %bitrate%,%codec_profile%),)$if($or($strcmp(%codec%,ALAC),$strcmp(%codec%,FLAC)),Lossless,))']') (the use of %actualbitrate% is for the rare occasion when you get an anomalous album that for some reason has the codec profiles and bitrates all hosed up, I manually add a tag to override it) Very ugly and non-elegantly coded (but still works) defaultUI grouping (I should really clean this up): quote:$if($and($not($stricmp($meta(album artist),)),$or($not($stricmp($meta(album artist),$meta(artist))),$stricmp($meta(album artist),various artists))),%album artist%,%artist%) - '['%date%']' %album% $if(%release type%,'['%release type%']' ,)» '['%codec% $if($stricmp(%codec_profile%,CBR),'/' CBR %bitrate%,$if($or($stricmp(%codec%,ALAC),$stricmp(%codec%,FLAC)),'/' Lossless,$if($stricmp(%codec%,AAC),$if($and($greater(%bitrate%,100),$greater(135,%bitrate%)),'/' 128, '/' %bitrate%),'/' %codec_profile%)))$if(%source%, '/' %source%,$if($stricmp(%obtained from%,iTunes Store), '/' iTunes,$if($stricmp(%obtained from%,what.cd), '/' what.cd,$if($stricmp(%obtained from%,ST Music), '/' ST Music,))))']' Foo_dop Artist, Title, and Album mappings (in that order): quote:$if($and($not($stricmp($meta(album artist),)),$or($not($stricmp($meta(album artist),$meta(artist))),$stricmp($meta(album artist),various artists))),%album artist%,%artist%) Also, thanks to Toast Museum for pointing out the Win 7 integration plugin, that's really good. Mr SuperAwesome fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Oct 2, 2011 |
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Oct 2, 2011 18:06
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Posting HelfMyselp's Milkdrop instructions for Foobar (ty for the new thread, Ledge!) HelfMyselp posted:Boring config incoming:
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Oct 2, 2011 19:47
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Dear god, thank you so much for this.  I have tried many times to customize my foobar, but half the time one of the components the guide I've followed used has fallen out of date and just fucks the whole thing up.Maybe this time I'll make it all the way through!
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Oct 2, 2011 20:32
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I have a Rainmeter skin that analyses your 'currently playing' info in Winamp. How can I get it to analyze my Foobar info instead?
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Oct 3, 2011 01:41
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Install Shpeck, you don't need to use its visualization capability. It's currently the most feature complete Winamp API emulator.
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Oct 3, 2011 01:50
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kode54 posted:Install Shpeck, you don't need to use its visualization capability. It's currently the most feature complete Winamp API emulator. I did, but when I play my music it still doesn't show up. Do I need to change anything in the skin's .ini file (paths and whatnot)? this is what I currently have it set to: 
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Oct 3, 2011 01:59
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Hmm, disregard that, there seems to be native foobar2000 support in the latest NowPlaying beta plug-in, which connects to foobar2000 through a foo_rainmeter.dll, also included.
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Oct 3, 2011 02:34
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kode54 posted:Hmm, disregard that, there seems to be native foobar2000 support in the latest NowPlaying beta plug-in, which connects to foobar2000 through a foo_rainmeter.dll, also included. Well if it comes down to it I'd use that, but I'd prefer to not have to completely recode everything 
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Oct 3, 2011 03:10
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Is there a way to get the total duration of an album? I'd like to add it in my SimPlaylist config.
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Oct 6, 2011 13:48
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The Milkman posted:Is there a way to get the total duration of an album? I'd like to add it in my SimPlaylist config. Use %length% in the header section. Also works in Sub headers so you can have total length for multi disc albums and then individual disc lengths. More here.
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Oct 6, 2011 21:38
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Another plugin I quite like is the Biography Viewer foo_uie_biography which does pretty much what is say on the label, displays a biography for the currently playing artist or reviews for the currently playing album. By default it gets bios from lastfm and/or wikipedia, however you can run external scripts and scripts have been written to get bios from amg. The two scripts are in this zip file Save these to a scripts folder in your f2k program folder. And below is how you set it up.   
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ledge posted:Use %length% in the header section. Also works in Sub headers so you can have total length for multi disc albums and then individual disc lengths. Not sure how I missed that, having that page open the whole time. Thanks. Added two tabs with that biography component. Quite like it. Here's what I'm currently using:  SimPlaylist config for those interested 
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Over the years I've tried just about every music player and I keep coming back to foobar. I'm currently using a tweaked version of the Mnlt2 skin: 
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What's the best built in album art finder/downloader for Foobar? I found 2 that are standalone and one that appears to have been abandoned. e: how does one do play count? I thought it was %play_count% but I'm still getting a question mark for all songs. Master_Odin fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 9, 2011 |
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Oct 9, 2011 23:19
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Master_Odin posted:What's the best built in album art finder/downloader for Foobar? I found 2 that are standalone and one that appears to have been abandoned.
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Woebin posted:I don't know if it's the best, but the Discogs tagger component's always served me well when it comes to fetching album art. But that is only one album at a time, unless I have missed something. Try this... Album Art Downloader XUI
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Master_Odin posted:e: how does one do play count? I thought it was %play_count% but I'm still getting a question mark for all songs. I use the Last.fm synced playcount script (linked earlier), but there is a traditional playcount component. http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_playcount Chilled Milk fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Oct 10, 2011 |
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TheSkeletonMan posted:Over the years I've tried just about every music player and I keep coming back to foobar. It's really funny you brought this up, because 
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One of my favourite componets is the http_control http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=62218 it allows remote control via web browsers which can be endlessly customised with normal html/css/javascript. After lots of help over on the HA forums I've got all the controls I need from my android phone (though it has an iphone look), and it can be adapted for other phones/tablets etc.  I've gone the extra step and ran speaker cable from my PC to different rooms in the house and I can control where it plays, although this worked much simpler on Windows XP than it does on Windows 7. 
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The Milkman posted:I use the Last.fm synced playcount script (linked earlier), but there is a traditional playcount component. Be careful when using this. If you rate songs regularly, it overrides the %rating% tag and writes your ratings to the foo_playcount database rather than the actual file, for some totally bizarre reason
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Manticorr posted:Be careful when using this. If you rate songs regularly, it overrides the %rating% tag and writes your ratings to the foo_playcount database rather than the actual file, for some totally bizarre reason For the same reason that it defaults to storing play counts and dates in its own internal database. Of course, there is an option to synchronize playback statistics with file tags, but it's all or none, so you'll be getting your play counts written to the file as well. Of course, maybe you like that.
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kode54 posted:For the same reason that it defaults to storing play counts and dates in its own internal database. Of course, there is an option to synchronize playback statistics with file tags, but it's all or none, so you'll be getting your play counts written to the file as well. Of course, maybe you like that. Just to add to this, the reason the playcount component doesn't update tags by default, is that the developer has decided that changing the actual file without the user agreeing first is not good practice. f2k in general will never alter your files without you specifically telling it to. Also if you update tags on files while they are playying this can interrupt playback, particularly on large files that only have id3v1 tags as they are at the beginning of a file and rewriting them means rewrting the entire file on the disk (I believe, feel free to correct me if I am talking poo poo).
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Before you upgrade your iPhone, the foo_dop plugin doesn't work with iOS5. It will transfer files, but the iPhone won't recognize it as "music" -- iTunes reports it as "other".
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Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I seriously cannot understand how any human, sober or on tons of drugs, can possibly look at any Milkdrop preset without wanting to tear their eyes out. It's like it jumpcuts every loving fraction of a second to different orientation or angle or whatever, and I'm talking about within the same preset. I.....don't get it. Is there anyway to get magnetosphere on foobar? I miss the old magnetosphere before iTunes had to put their own "pizzaz" to it 
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can the auto playlists look at a particular folder over a network, automatically add anything which is added in there to it's library, and keep shuffling it all? It's for work. I have to ask our NY office for admin rights to install things, so I dont want to have to ask them more than once. I think it should be able to, but the autoplaylists in the op only mentions tag changing - not actual folder scanning. even if it just does it once a night, thats good enough.
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cubicle gangster posted:can the auto playlists look at a particular folder over a network, automatically add anything which is added in there to it's library, and keep shuffling it all? It's for work. You'd have to manually start things playing to my knowledge, but it can definitely play files from a network storage and aggregate them from a certain folder. That's how mine's set up.
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What do you mean by play them manually? Does it automatically add new albums you throw in a particular folder to its library? can you get it to play it's entire library on random, including anything new as it gets added? It would be installed on an old server which we want to throw in the corner and forget about. I guess we could remote in each morning, but ideally we just turn the speakers on and some music is playing. It also needs to update its library without complaining when we move things out of that folder, eg an album we're all sick of. cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Oct 19, 2011 |
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cubicle gangster posted:can the auto playlists look at a particular folder over a network, automatically add anything which is added in there to it's library, and keep shuffling it all? It's for work. Then use the autoplaylist set to "everything in library" to play the whole thing on shuffle. Foobar is pretty drat well behaved about networked folders in the library. It's pretty good about knowing how to deal with a folder being unavailable (network down): it should just ignore that part of the library. Quit and restart foobar, it tries again. But it can get stuck on "error" instead of "monitoring" in the library, in which case you may have to remove and re-add the folder. Edit: quote:It would be installed on an old server which we want to throw in the corner and forget about. I guess we could remote in each morning, but ideally we just turn the speakers on and some music is playing. On a different topic, since its a new thread I'll point any new users to the existence of Foo UI Hacks, the plugin so good they banned it. Does many useful things, now with the ability to make foobar a portable app. Klyith fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Oct 19, 2011 |
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Klyith posted:You don't even need to use an autoplaylist for this -- just add the network folder to foobar's Music Library. This will keep the library constantly up to date. It hooks into the file system with a "notify me whenever files in this folder change" command, so it pretty much instantly updates whenever anything is added, removed, or changed. Foobar can already install as a portable app.
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Klyith posted:On a different topic, since its a new thread I'll point any new users to the existence of Foo UI Hacks, the plugin so good they banned it. Does many useful things, now with the ability to make foobar a portable app. Who in their right mind would trust a banned plugin from a site entirely in Russian with the word "hacks" in it?
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If you have an android device, you can use this app to remotely control your foobar: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cav.foobar2000controllerpro
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pokecapn posted:Who in their right mind would trust a banned plugin from a site entirely in Russian with the word "hacks" in it? Banned because of old drama. (And it's not really banned anymore, the fb2k devs seem to have chilled out a bit. Still can't get listed on the components site or official forum though. Which is why I give it a plug here. I'm not stirring the poo poo; I genuinely use the plugin and some of the tweaks from ui_hacks are things that I can't do without.)
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Oh gently caress I got my music to output emulated 5.1 to my speakers through foobar, and it sounds loving great 
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Oh gently caress I got my music to output emulated 5.1 to my speakers through foobar, and it sounds loving great This sounds interesting. How? And do I need any specific hardware?
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hooah posted:This sounds interesting. How? And do I need any specific hardware? It says for headphones but I have it working with my 5 speaker setup (too poor for a subwoofer) sent to an external receiver over optical http://www.head-fi.org/t/447089/5-1-headphone-experience-foobar-configuration-for-all-stereo-music-files As an example, it seems to mix vocals towards the front and other frequencies get sort of filtered and pushed to the back. Like I played a song with vocals and a different range of bass and higher I guess guitar work and most of that was supplemented in the rear speaker and I heard no or almost no vocals out of it, but vocals predominately came out of the front/center Kind of hard to explain but it works great with my hand me down system and does exactly what I wanted it to do. Before I was getting mostly audio from the center only and the side speakers/rear were too quiet.
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