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Originally Posted by RVCA
Oh, neat. So Foobar is a bit like Firefox in that you can just pick and choose what plugins you want to add? What are some good Foobar plugins?
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Yes, a bit like firefox in that respect only Foobar out of the box is not a very functional media player like firefox is a functional browser. You have to do stuff to it before it does what you want. As for plugins, first off, I like
foo_ui_columns which is basically a different way from the default to build up your foobar's graphical user interface. To understand what it is, you'll have to check it out.
Some other ones that I like are :
- foo_discogs - Fetches album info from the discogs database (which I like)
- foo_fileops - Let's you rename/move/copy files according to custom scripts. This is included in the installation, but you have to make sure you check it off in the installation options.
- foo_audioscrobbler - Scrobbles plays to last.fm
- foo_quicktag - Gives you a submenu when you right click where you can choose to add values to certain file tags, f.ex Album Type -> Studio Album, Studio EP, Best of Album, etc. You can define yourself what this menu should include and what tags they should write to.
- foo_quicksearch - Gives a highly customizable searchbar which is my preferred way of finding my music
- foo_uie_library_tree - Gives you a panel with a library tree which you can customize in various ways and also gives you autoplaylist support (f.ex a playlist which is always updated with all songs above a certain rating)
- foo_uie_biography - Gives you a panel with artist biography from last.fm, but what I like the most is that it can fetch artist pictures and album art for you automatically (without prompts/dialogues) if those things are missing
There are also plugins that will give you visualizations, album art browsers (like in itunes), lyrics and various ways to tag your files from a number of databases and so on.
