All things foobar2000

[Torand]

Just a thread for all things foobar.

 

- Themes

- Plugins/Components

- Ideas

- Discussions

 

 

 

What is foobar?

 

foobar is a freeware, hugely customizable audio player. I have made the convert from iTunes, which I have been using for years. I still open it to sync and purchase, but for casual listening I prefer foobar.

 

http://www.foobar2000.org/

 

 

 

Where can I get it!?

 

Here: http://www.foobar2000.org/download

 

Plugins, or components, can be found here: http://www.foobar2000.org/components

 

 

 

Where do I start? It's scary!

 

I suggest watching some of Tek Syndicate's videos, specifically these. They will help get you started:

 

- "Getting Started and Theming" = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5um6NEMZGZo

- "File Organization Using File Operations" = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPluEdyfjtU

- "Update Your iPod, Edit Tags, Assign Hotkeys" = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaunEnn6fA4

 

 

 

Example(s):

 

Here is my setup at the moment (thanks to a bit of Logan love (Tek Syndicate))

 

 

 

Plugins Used:

 

- Waveform Seekbar, By: Zao  =  http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_wave_seekbar

- Facets, By: Frank Bicking  =  http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_facets

 

 

 

Thought the song was rather relevant as its 1 AM here...

 

 

Hope this helps, enjoying listening! 

 

(If someone wanted to make a tutorial on this thread, i'll happily link it on here. I may do in future, when I have free time. )

[T.Vengeance]

Hmmm, I feel this might be more useful in the Audio subforum, even though it's more fitting in the software one. Thanks for this though! I've been meaning to switch permanently to foobar.

[Torand]

Hmmm, I feel this might be more useful in the Audio subforum, even though it's more fitting in the software one. Thanks for this though! I've been meaning to switch permanently to foobar.

 

No problem. I really recently "switched" (although not fully, majoritively). I think its more suited here, although I wish you could bridge threads between multiple subforums for stuff like this, to capture a wider audience.

[RainfallWithin]

I started using foobar2000 a few months ago and I really like using it. I pretty much only ever used Winamp before and it was getting on my nerves.

I'm not using any skins on foobar2000, but I've changed the colour scheme.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make it show the information about the currently playing song, not just the highlighted song.

[LogicalDrm]

Thanks for links to that search bar. I like it.