What's your foobar2000 setup?

[Pudu]

Cheers,

I'll give it try.

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Had to auto-hide the taskbar to get a proper screenshot. No idea why.



I stole the play controls from fooAero DUI. Pretty basic but it lets me get to my music quickly and without jumping through any hoops.

The thing about foo themes and skins is - the slicker they look the less functional they are for exploring your music collection. At least that's what I find.

 

[Tilpo]

The thing about foo themes and skins is - the slicker they look the less functional they are for exploring your music collection. At least that's what I find.

I agree. I prefer something that looks moderately beautiful but still contains heaps of information.
That's the principle I try to design my UI's on, and so far it hasn't let me down.

The trick is always to display information in such a way that it's still clear while taking up as little space as possible while also not compromising looks.

 

[Griffinhart]

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Looks great. How did you get your screen shot?
I've tried Windows built in and Fraps, but I can't get the whole Foobar screen to show. Fraps only gives me the Schpeck window.

Alt+Print Screen captures the current window in focus. S'how I take all of my images. Then I just paste into Paint or whatever.
 
-- Griffinhart

 

[Pudu]

That's how I usually do it too. However it's not working with foobar for at the moment - just tried again. Weird, but I won't any sleep over it.

 

[gnarlsagan]

Last time I tried a pretty foobar setup it lagged a bit too much to be useful. Slow scrolling and responsiveness. Winamp on the other hand is instant for me. Has anyone else experienced this? Maybe it was the particular setup I chose. Wouldn't mind trying again one of these days since it's been over a year.

 

[crapmonster]

 
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Last time I tried a pretty foobar setup it lagged a bit too much to be useful. Slow scrolling and responsiveness. Winamp on the other hand is instant for me. Has anyone else experienced this? Maybe it was the particular setup I chose. Wouldn't mind trying again one of these days since it's been over a year.

 
This has definitely been true for me as well at least on my old desktop.  Either way, most of the nicer configs while looking nice never fit my uses so I just stick to my own setup which is just the built-in foobar layout editor + facets plugin.
 
The lag is probably due to all the external plugins and crap that the config has to call for.  Vanilla foobar plus just a few plugins will have a much smaller system footprint at least in my experience.

 

[Griffinhart]

Vanilla foobar should be light - like, no-more-than-20MB-of-RAM-in-use light.
 
My f2k install runs at 200MB, but I have some fancy background stuff going on (scrobbling, streaming, tweeting, plus autosaving and the waveform seekbar). But 200MB ain't nothin' to Joyeuse. CPU usage is ~1.5% on my Core i7-930.
 
-- Griffinhart

 

[Tilpo]

I have a huge amount of plugins installed, and still foobar2000 only uses 140MB's of RAM. CPU rarely ever hits 3% during playback. (AMD 965 BE).
For me Winamp was actually a lot slower, even vanilla.
And iTunes... Well, let's not go that route. (it eats up all my RAM and CPU and takes 5 minutes to start up because it can't handle large libraries.)

 

[noxa]

I've just started using foobar2000 and am trying to rip my CD's to FLAC but when i load my cd on no track name or artist name appears. How do i get this information?

 

[ChipnDalebowl]

I've just started using foobar2000 and am trying to rip my CD's to FLAC but when i load my cd on no track name or artist name appears. How do i get this information?

Did you install freedb tagger when you installed the program? Under custom install, it is an option, so I'm not positive this feature installs by default.

 

[noxa]

Yeah i got it to work, i reinstalled but this time selected full, last time i just went default which didn't have freedb.

 

[BenAdamson]

It's a pretty vanilla setup, but I really like it! It's efficient, pretty and clean - I dislike messy interfaces 

 

[Nyvar]

 
Mine is actually just a slight tweak of the Griffinhart version that started this thread out.   It does what I need, so I haven't really done much with it. 

 

[jjinh]

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It's a pretty vanilla setup, but I really like it! It's efficient, pretty and clean - I dislike messy interfaces 

Reminds me a bit of my setup - nice and simple
 

 
 

 

[crapmonster]

Modified my layout to be much more compact.