[Rylo]

(This may be the wrong place for this thread. If it is please move it to the appropriate place).
 
Hello all,
 
I'm a longtime lurker and recently I purchased a pair of Beyerdynamic DT990s and a Fiio E07K. While I wait for those to arrive, I figured it's about time I move on from iTunes, primarily so I can play FLAC. I'm on Windows and I've tried Foobar in the past (for several months, actually) but I never found its interface intuitive, nor did I find its usability very good, either. Things like easy playlist creation, play counts, and ratings didn't exist at all before I found some plugins that enabled them, and even then they just didn't feel right. I remember when rating a song, I had to Right-click the track > Go to 'Rating' > then scroll down to 4 or 5 stars or whatever. It certainly was laborious compared to iTunes' one click ratings system.
 
So my question is: Does anybody have a setup that looks good (I know this is subjective, so I'll specify as 'looking clean, or minimalist') while also having high, a la iTunes usability features? I've spent the better part of two hours on Google trying to find something, but either my Google-fu sucks, the information is well-hidden, or the information doesn't exist.
 
Thanks,
 
Rylo

 

[PurpleAngel]

There are several threads on Head-Fi that deal with Foobar 2000, might try posting on them.

 

[tomb]

Quote:

(This may be the wrong place for this thread. If it is please move it to the appropriate place).
 
Hello all,
 
I'm a longtime lurker and recently I purchased a pair of Beyerdynamic DT990s and a Fiio E07K. While I wait for those to arrive, I figured it's about time I move on from iTunes, primarily so I can play FLAC. I'm on Windows and I've tried Foobar in the past (for several months, actually) but I never found its interface intuitive, nor did I find its usability very good, either. Things like easy playlist creation, play counts, and ratings didn't exist at all before I found some plugins that enabled them, and even then they just didn't feel right. I remember when rating a song, I had to Right-click the track > Go to 'Rating' > then scroll down to 4 or 5 stars or whatever. It certainly was laborious compared to iTunes' one click ratings system.
 
So my question is: Does anybody have a setup that looks good (I know this is subjective, so I'll specify as 'looking clean, or minimalist') while also having high, a la iTunes usability features? I've spent the better part of two hours on Google trying to find something, but either my Google-fu sucks, the information is well-hidden, or the information doesn't exist.
 
Thanks,
 
Rylo

I suppose this isn't strictly kosher, but you might try Hydrogenaudio - they have the official forum for Foobar.
 
What you've found is fairly typical.  Foobar is free and open, but because of that it takes some work.  Keep at it and it will reward you with an excellent sound listening experience.  I've used it ever since switching to computer-based audio (7 years ago?).

 

[Rylo]

Quote:

I suppose this isn't strictly kosher, but you might try Hydrogenaudio - they have the official forum for Foobar.
 
What you've found is fairly typical.  Foobar is free and open, but because of that it takes some work.  Keep at it and it will reward you with an excellent sound listening experience.  I've used it ever since switching to computer-based audio (7 years ago?).

Yeah, I actually did that when I made the post on here.
 
I've got everything down except proper, auto-updating playlists.