[cris.rodrigo]

I've been messing with foobar for an hour now and reading other forums, but I can't figure why people choose this format over others. I've come to learn that it supports more encoding formats than winamp, but nothing else. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Cyrilix]

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Originally Posted by cris.rodrigo I've been messing with foobar for an hour now and reading other forums, but I can't figure why people choose this format over others. I've come to learn that it supports more encoding formats than winamp, but nothing else. Any help would be appreciated.

Winamp has been causing me tons of problems with video lately, so I switched to foobar.

 

[necropimp]

"out of the box" it supports more formats and can be set up to sound better...

those are 2 of the best reasons i can think of... other than the fact that winamp is quite dead

it's also tweakable

mine

 

[halcyon]

Necro, that is a very decent looking and legible setup. Can you tell everyone which plug-ins and settings you've used to achieve that? Would save quite a bit of tinkering for many

 

[Csi]

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Originally Posted by halcyon Necro, that is a very decent looking and legible setup. Can you tell everyone which plug-ins and settings you've used to achieve that? Would save quite a bit of tinkering for many

Seconded. People always say if you play around with foobar you can figure it out. However please by all means give some tips as not all of us have a natural ability to pick up this computer tweaking.

 

[perplex]

it would be great if there was a album art plugin like that which automatically retrieves the front cover from an online store like amazon - instead of having to have the front cover in the folder :0

my foobar

 

[jefemeister]

I like foobar because it's setup to be really tweakable while also easy to configure. IME, something like winamp requires much more effort and know-how to change things like resampling, bit depth, dithering, crossfeed, I/O style, etc. If you don't require this level of control, I think winamp is perfectly fine. As far as looks, Foobar can be made to look really cool but you have to spend hours getting it to look "just right." Winamp looks better right out of the box, but there's something to be said about Foobar's supreme level of customization if you're willing to put in the effort.

 

[necropimp]

ok here are the plugins i use

columns ui
foo_uie_tabs
foo_uie_albumlist
foo_uie_trackinfo
foo_uie_albumart program to get album art found here
foo_uie_volume

fcs file for exporting into columns ui (link fixed)

trackinfo code here

and the buttons

 

[Jasper994]

Wow necropimp, that's pretty... pimp!

 

[Ozric]

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Originally Posted by necropimp ok here are the plugins i use columns ui foo_uie_tabs foo_uie_albumlist foo_uie_trackinfo foo_uie_albumart program to get album art found here foo_uie_volume fcs file for exporting into columns ui trackinfo code here and the buttons

Wow, I must be an eedjit

I've installed all the plug-ins, and still can't get the damn active user interface module to show up. The Columns UI is listed under Components, but it doesn't show up in my player interface.

BTW, the fcs link isn't working...

 

[dviswa]

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Originally Posted by Ozric Wow, I must be an eedjit I've installed all the plug-ins, and still can't get the damn active user interface module to show up. The Columns UI is listed under Components, but it doesn't show up in my player interface. BTW, the fcs link isn't working...

You are not alone

Where can I get a foobar for eedjit s

Necropimp,

Can you please provide a small explanation on how to customize?

 

[Kikkoman]

For you guys looking to get into Foobar some great resources to learn about the program and customizing the interface are the wikis found Here and Here.

 

[viator122]

Take a look at my Foobar. Clean and simple.

 

[Helter Skelter]

My Foobar (click for larger):



Already set up, just unrar, maybe nuke the databse (not sure if mine is still in the rar) and change the path to your own music folder, and set up the DSP/output plugins to your own preference (the ASIO dll is included, and I think I set it to Directsound 2.0 before packaging it up):
http://www.topoftheslide.net/dl/foobar2000.rar

Once you scan all your music into the DB, you'll want to right click in the album list and select "refresh tree" to make everything show up.

And remember, this is just my personal tweaked version, your milage may vary, I'm not responsible if anything crashes or your computer explodes. It's stable and works extremely well for me. I assume by downloading this you have some basic knowledge of how to configure foobar in the first place, and as such I do not offer technical support of any kind. But hey, if you like it, feel free to play with it or use it as a base to tweak further.

 

[Csi]

Helter thanks for your winrar! Saved a lot of time searching and learning how to use those Foobar plugins!