foobar 0.9's out

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:10 am

http://foobar2000.org/

it's finally progressed from beta. woot \o/

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:36 am

never heard of it

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:37 am

it's by far the best music player available. I've been using it ever since they fucked up winamp.

Post by **neh** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:52 am

what makes it best - ps very shitty ui btw

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:01 am

From the wikipedia article on it:

* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
* Full Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain support
* Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
* Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
* Highly customizable playlist display
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts
* Gapless Playback
* Multiple playlists
* Music database
* Streaming Support
* Extensive "plug-in" support

I originally got it because they fucked up with winamp3, and I also wanted something with global hotkeys so i could change song when playing quake.

With regard to the ui, get the columns ui plugin and have a mess about with it. Because 9.0 is quite new a lot of the old plugins don't work but they're getting on it, you can see other people's foobars here, it requires a bit of effort and intelligence to get it looking nice, but it's worth it:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ind ... opic=43077

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:08 am

I'm stuck at 0.8 until the foo_pod plugin gets updated.

Post by ek » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:29 am

eh i gave up on foobar, kept crashing for some fucked up reason when i was listening to internet radio. got sick of it and just went back to winamp.

Post by **neh** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:07 pm

phantasmagoria wrote:From the wikipedia article on it:

* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
* Full Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain support
* Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
* Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
* Highly customizable playlist display
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts
* Gapless Playback
* Multiple playlists
* Music database
* Streaming Support
* Extensive "plug-in" support

I originally got it because they fucked up with winamp3, and I also wanted something with global hotkeys so i could change song when playing quake.

With regard to the ui, get the columns ui plugin and have a mess about with it. Because 9.0 is quite new a lot of the old plugins don't work but they're getting on it, you can see other people's foobars here, it requires a bit of effort and intelligence to get it looking nice, but it's worth it:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ind ... opic=43077

sorry, am confused - so basically its does mass tagging - and thats pretty much about it in terms of killer features?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:19 pm

well personally, I don't need a music player that slows my computer to a halt taking all the processing power to display some retarded visualisation with hundreds of different functionalities that I have no need for.

Its selling point is that it's not bloatware. Think of it as the utorrent of music players.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:34 pm

phantasmagoria wrote:well personally, I don't need a music player that slows my computer to a halt taking all the processing power to display some retarded visualisation with hundreds of different functionalities that I have no need for.

Its selling point is that it's not bloatware. Think of it as the utorrent of music players.

you can disable visualizations in winamp...

Post by **Deathshroud** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:05 pm

To you guys who like Foobar, you would prolly also like VLC, great media player.

http://www.videolan.org/

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:24 pm

Chupacabra wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:well personally, I don't need a music player that slows my computer to a halt taking all the processing power to display some retarded visualisation with hundreds of different functionalities that I have no need for.

Its selling point is that it's not bloatware. Think of it as the utorrent of music players.
you can disable visualizations in winamp...

but you can't disable the rest of it.

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:31 pm

utorrent is actually pretty nice visually, one of the best i've seen. reminds me of emule in a way.

the thing I like most about foobar is the "tabbed" multiple playlist feature. from what i remember you could only have one playlist opened at a time in winamp. but this was a long time ago so maybe things have changed.

i also like the minimal interface, which, seeing that i always have the player minimized to the taskbar, works for me.

the search feature is also nice and very quick. it searches multiple playlists with the results displaying as you type.

the one thing i don't like about foobar is there's no simple way to 'refresh' a playlist. i base playlists off of directories, so when i add music to a directory, i have to update the playlist by 'clearing' it and selecting the directory again from a folder browser.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:31 pm

phantasmagoria wrote:
Chupacabra wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:well personally, I don't need a music player that slows my computer to a halt taking all the processing power to display some retarded visualisation with hundreds of different functionalities that I have no need for.

Its selling point is that it's not bloatware. Think of it as the utorrent of music players.
you can disable visualizations in winamp...
but you can't disable the rest of it.

i suppose. what are your computer specs though? i dont understand how it can slow your computer to a halt. i have a pentium 3, 800mhz, 128mb ram computer and winamp isnt slowing my computer down to a halt.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:35 pm

When I'm playing games it means if i'm playing music in the background it doesn't either fuck with the game, or make the music stutter.

I just like the fact it's basically a massive database of your music without any needless chaff added ontop.

Post by **CheapAlert** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:39 pm

strange. i've used WinAMP 5 while playing some QW online on my p2 233 without a problem.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:13 pm

CheapAlert wrote:strange. i've used WinAMP 5 while playing some QW online on my p2 233 without a problem.

When properly configured (and that's on a full install, not lite, altough I rarely use the visual stuff) Winamp 5 takes between 5-10mb of ram and 0-2% cpu cycles on my so-so machine. Don't you love it when sheep follow common internet trends to bash anything in sight?

Post by **plained** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:14 pm

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Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:16 pm

Eyoyo yaeas for realz

Post by **booker** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:01 am

[lvlshot]http://static.flickr.com/41/122978040_ad79c6a772_o.png[/lvlshot]

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:45 am

Chupacabra wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:well personally, I don't need a music player that slows my computer to a halt taking all the processing power to display some retarded visualisation with hundreds of different functionalities that I have no need for.

Its selling point is that it's not bloatware. Think of it as the utorrent of music players.
you can disable visualizations in winamp...

Winamp can be light as well.. use a old style skin, and turn off all the garbage..

tho, if you cant run winamp with vis off and play a game, you need to fucking upgrade..

Post by **Deathshroud** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:39 am

booker wrote:[lvlshot]http://static.flickr.com/41/122978040_ad79c6a772_o.png[/lvlshot]

Hey, would you mind postin what plugin's you have loaded?

I wouldn't mind havin my Foobar lookin like that.

Post by ek » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:13 am

yep, how the hell do you skin foobar?

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:24 am

winamp 1.91 ftw

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:03 am

http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... afb8ya.jpg

I'm trying to get the guy who made that to gimme his config.

You start with colums_ui, album_art and file_info plugins, i can't remember their specific names, or which versions are going to work with foobar 0.9 and then have a look round the hydrogenaudio forums for other people's examples and import them, or you can write your own. I need to put half a day aside so I can relearn it, it's been over a year since i properly fiddled with foobar.