Zer0

Did anybody else start using the Soft Playlists plug-in for Foobar2000? It creates playlists based on your Last.fm top tracks, loved tracks etc as well as your friends and neighbours top tracks. And it has a function like Genius as well so you can create playlists that go well with a certain song. It's pretty damn good

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CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

sounds interesting, where did you get that?

Zer0

Right here:

foobar2000: Components Repository - Soft Playlists

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CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

cool, thanks dude.

Guybrush

Okay, time for a little update I've been using Foobar for a little while now and have also been working on a dark theme. This was completed quite a while ago (last post), but I've since had to redo a few things, mainly components which caused crashes. The peakmeter spectrum had to go for example.

Here's my current layout :



The above shows my ElPlaylist which is the one I normally use. As you can see, groups can collapse if you want, making browsing through albums quicker.




With a click of a button, you can switch to the columns playlist which can be useful for organizing files and so on. Sometimes, it's just easier to have a list of tracks without album art.

And then, with a click of another button, the whole thing becomes :



Which shows basically info / cycling artist pictures / lyrics ..

It's not something I use often, but if we have a party, I put my foobar on our LCD TV and it looks pretty good .. Although there's still more I could do to perfect that last one!

Aside from the visuals, there's a lot going on under the hood. The most important I guess is album art, artist pictures and lyrics are downloaded and stored on my HD automatically. I've finally gotten to where I want with foobar - almost - in regards to tagging as well. For genres, I use the discogs style-guide as a basis and have managed to modify/write some python scripts which fetch the right tags for me in a sensible way, minimizing the amount of requests sent to server and so on.

Foobar rocks!

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noise

cool! glad i was able to successfully convert you

i love your full screen mode. you should incorporate album art in there too

i use CD Art Display myself - it is dead easy to skin and offers lots of flexibility.



you dove a lot deeper into customization and scripting than i dared to do, and the result is very nice

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Guybrush

Thanks! I'm making little changes to the code almost every day and I think it's really a lot of fun. The next challenge I guess is getting rid of my track info mod panels and exchange them for more WSH panels .. something which is going to require even more coding!

While I like my current theme, I'm still not satisfied so I might start working on something new soon.

That CD Art Display sure looks sweet! I did install CD Art Display some time ago, but decided to uninstall again. The only thing that bothers me is that it's an extra something, another program to run.

I tend to sacrifice design over functionality, so fancyness or boringness isn't so much an issue for me. The nicest thing about my "fancy" foobar is that I get so much more information about the music I listen to than I do with other programs. The ability to write custom tags and use those in scripting is incredibly useful to say the least. It really makes me wonder why it's more or less not an integral part of every music player.

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Cadrian

after bouncing around with players for like 3months... I finally settled with Mediamonkey.....

It gives everything I want with little tuning.... and the big big thing is it handle my 78k in songs with out lagging and works well with my IPOD.

I went with foobar for a while but once I loaded all my music on their it started acting berserk.

I tired Mediamonkey a couple months ago and didn't like it but I think I just didn't give it a enough of a chance. Now I am in love.

tgpo

I actually went back and removed all my extra foobar2000 components and reverted back to the default playlist. I realized I cared more about the music being played and less about how the player looked.

I'm boring.

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TheCunningStunt

Lots of people use some fancy media players.

I just use iTunes. Boring.