James

Itunes is pissing me off.
Downloading this now.

How do I extract my albums in iTunes into Foobar?

Guybrush

Hm? I've never used iTunes, but I assume it or you have placed your music somewhere on your computer. In foobar, press CTRL + P to bring up preferences, go to media library and browse for the directory containing your music.

The word extract confuses me slightly though.

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s_k

Just installed foobar and the colomns plugin.
At first glance, I liked the original looks better.
My album list is gone, I can get it back as a seperate window, but I don't want that.
Help?

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Zer0

If you go into the menu and go File -> Preferences -> Display -> Columns UI -> Main you should see a Quick Setup button. Just play around with that for a bit until you get a layout that you're happy with. Getting a layout that you're really happy with takes a lot of figuring out but you'll get the hang of it eventually.

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s_k

I guess I'm not the quick setup kind of guy .
I'm usually the one who really wants an extra choice in multiple choice question lists .
I'll go and have a Look.

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s_k

Hmmm... Had to reset everything. Installed some skin (fth file) that sucked. Have a lot of different file extensions that are supposed to be skins (pui, fcl, fcs) but can't seem to find out how to install them. Did a lot of googling but there doesn't seem to be a clear answer to that...
Feel like a n00b now...
And I can't seem to get the album list window docked in columns either.
I guess I'll stick to the default interface for now. I don't really see the point of columns so far, but I'm sure someone will explain that to me .

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Zer0

On the same preferences page as the Quick Setup button there is an area that says FCL importing and exporting, there is an import button to import a .fcl skin. The only thing about some fcl skins is that you're required to download and install some other components. Yeah it can get complicated sometimes

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s_k

But what does it do for me other than look pretty?
Because if that's all, I'm fine with the original looks.
I'm messing around with the scratchbox now. Just discovered that when you make a divider, you can't seem to delete it. Starting all over :P.

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Guybrush

There's certainly a lot to learn!

Columns UI with additional plugins is likely the way you wanna go. Your foobar could look marvellous, but you can also choose and pick what kind of functionality you want. Some typical ones might be a panel where you get additional information about the artist you are listening to, a panel displaying the lyrics and/or various vizualisations.

When I started with foobar, I created my own skin from scratch. Sometimes I borrowed code from others, but I always learned what it did and changed it in some way and I had a great time doing all that. It took a lot of time before I had a player I was starting to get happy with though. Now I mostly just tweak other people's skins to my needs.

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noise

the main benefit for me is the new playlist capabilities it offers. the Columns playlist panel is quite a lot more powerful in terms if customization than the Default one.

Columns also provides new ways to access your music via Filters, it has a better art viewer, more flexible usage of the status bar, tighter control over panel placement, and lots of other little benefits. i don't think i could ever go back to Default UI after using Columns

here's a hint: View - Layout - Live Editing

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