Zer0

I decided to give Foobar a try lately. At the moment it looks like this



Gonna start changing it around a bit more, when i figure out how to put panels on the right.

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abdullah424

I actually decided to give Foobar a try myself. Your layout looks really similar to mine Zero.

Cadrian

Since I screwed up my Itunes last week by trying to move stuff around that shouldnt have been. I have tried to make a vow never to go back to Itunes.

I downloaded Foobar at first and I really like its low memory usage and how fast it is about playing songs. I also tried mediamonkey but didnt like it at all.

But after downloading pretty much everything I could I settled with Winamp... I am still tinkering with foobar, I just need to understand it before I can really start using it. Winamp everything I like but the speed at which I click a song it take about 5 seconds for it to play because of all the music I have. It plays songs back to back with ease it only takes some time if I click a specific song.

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Dieselboy

Nice album you have on display in that pic. I just got done reviewing that in my journal, and came in here and saw this. The song you have highlighted is also one of, if not the best, on there.

Guybrush

Cadrian, since you have a sizeable collection, you should take a look at Winamp's Smart View function if you haven't. Just look at the left, you can right-click f.ex "Audio" and then choose "New Smart View" or something along those lines. You can set up filters or "queries" for how you want to access your music.

It's pretty easy to figure out and let's you find stuff a little easier.

Also when you have a large library, the search bar from Winamp is quite handy as scrolling doesn't work very well - you know what I mean. I love the fact that the winamp search also searches for stuff included in path/filename (although searches in big libraries are a bit slow). You can get the same functionality for Foobar, for example the Columns UI panel Quicksearch Panel.

You can see that searchbox here in my screenshot at the top of my foobar with a light red background coloration.

The smart view functionality in Winamp, should you come to like it, is also easily replicated in Winamp, also demonstrated in the screenie on the left hand side.


And don't forget this thread : http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/47...scussions.html

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Cadrian

Ill have to play around with that Smart view option.... I just looked at it. Ill have to read more about before I start playing with it. Seems I have screwed up alot in messing with my other media players by just thinking I was doing small tweaks.

Ya I noticed the search ability to search file information.... Which has been great it catches a lot of stuff that just isn't taged just right.

Foobar is the future for me.... It has to be. Its the only player that doesn't lag on me at all. I just gotta figure out how to script it or find a skin or something I like. I am just really bad at scripting and programing. I am also bad about tweaking stuff I have no business messing with and ruining everything. So Foobar is a real curse for me in that factor, considering there is no limit to what you can do.

Guybrush

The scripting is quite easy, actually. It seldom needs to get more advanced than "if this, do this, otherwise do this". One thing you will benefit from, more so when you're using foobar than Winamp, is having a really tidy collection regarding tags and file organization. Winamp just shows stuff as text so that's quite robust. Foobar can show album art and do other nice and fancy things and if you want to use features like that, it quickly becomes more vulnerable to inconsistencies in tags.

If that's a problem for you, then you might want to check out Musicbrainz Picard which is supposed to be really good tagging software. Just make sure you try it out on a few files to make sure it does what you want before you apply it to your whole collection!

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noise

i agree - a compulsively tagged collection is essential if you want to make the most of foobar.

that way, you can make a playlist that updates automatically, and which contains only tracks by australian bands from albums released between 1984 and 1992 that are in the genres "punk" or "rock" and have a rating of 4 or greater. just an example...

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Cadrian

This really doesnt have to do with my current music player.... But just a feature I liked about Itunes.

Since I am not using Itunes anymore... Is there something out there that can replace genius? I never really used its playlists in whole but I liked how it gave me ideas what I can put in playlists.

Mean if it was just a website that just pulled out songs that I would like If I liked that song. I know there are sites out there... I dont even have to be able to listen to the songs on the website just a list, would be enough for me.

Just whats some good ones to start with?

FETCHER.

I dunno how I could help you with suggesting something other than iTunes, but I agree, Genius is pretty awesome. I use it alot.

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