Reviews of foobar2000

1. 
   chinch

   Reviewing 0.9.6.9 (Oct 30, 2009)

   love my foobar.. reluctantly tried it, i was a winamp guy since the first betas... but i kept hearing about it over and over.. after so long i had to try it to see why everyone rants about it so much. the default UI looks quite simplistic and haggard... but then you realize, with plugins and things, you can make this player look like anything in the world. i have seen some BA looking custom GUI's for sure. it's lightweight. it's modular (a lot of the extra functionality is optional, via plugins)... a lot like firefox and its plugins. i can't use IE anymore.. not really cause i'm an IE hater... just without my extensions... IE feels so lacking.
   
   so i have only 1 complaint about the foo. it can do everything under the sun from convert between nearly any formats, tagging, totally customizable interface, replay gain, batch processing, the list goes on forever.... but WHERE IS THE ALBUM ART FUNCTIONALITY??? i mean adding it (you can view it fine). also what about adding lyrics? just kinda irritattes me that i can do every single thing from start to finish in foorbar, but then i've got to use tag&rename to embed the artwork and lyrics. (also a highly recommended program.. tag&rename is awesome for tagging). am i missing something? also i'm waiting for the author of the ipod plugin to make things fully cool with itunes9 format and latest firmware. i would LOVE to get rid of itunes... i'm just scared to use the ipod plugin for fear that it might cause corrupted DB or something on it (since i heard they changed up the internal DB/layout of everything in iTunes9, throwing everything off.with most all existing ipod utilities and plugins that previously worked. thanks apple. itunes also freezes and crashes every time i try to do anything with my ipod touch 3rd gen. even though this is a brand new smokin computer. foobar -- less than a second to come up. itunes? less than a second to FREEZE up.
   
   so what about the album art deal? i heard there once was aworking plugin for this, but became incompatible at some point. am i just missing the method to add art to each individual file, or at laet in a batch operation? i could do it with all my folder.jpg's probably.. but thanks to WMP, all my nice high-res album art has been shrunken to 200x200 turd art, even though i told it NOT TO TOUCH my tags or update them in any way.
   
   if you use foobar and win7, make sure you get the win7 plugin that gives you the taskbar popup w/ mini art preview/controls/thumbnail and song progress bar on the docked icon like IE or explorer. excellent addon. waiting for this to be native.. and for god sakes let me embed album art from foobar so I can get rid of extra programs that I only need for one specific function the first lacks (happens all the time with a lot of software). i'll end up having like 3-4 programs installed that do essentially the exact same thing as each other.... except that one feature i really need. that makes me have to depend on 3 programs instead of 1... always like that ;) we need more frequent updates too!.. foobar!! send some new features/improvements outr way!
2. 
   q350348361

   Reviewing 0.9.6.9 (Oct 1, 2009)

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3. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 0.9.6.9 (Sep 23, 2009)

   You might not be after user-friendliness so much as WinAMP-style functionality. f2k was designed to be plugin-oriented and slim - AFAIC the default look is more than enough, but I have installed a series of plugins such as prettypop to make it work a tiny bit better. Everything's hotkeyable or clickable depending on the UI you've installed. Go here to check out some sample UIs.. http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/strings.php?s=vote
   
   Bottom line is that F2K can be made to do just about everything any other player can do, but it just takes a little more work out of the box. Fine by me - the best programs (PowerPro and AutoHotKey to name a couple) work like that. I've been using it since it came out and it's perfect - apart from the petty politics you see on the forums from time to time and the author's holier-than-thou, Apple app-store-like attitude. Then again, that's what drives the quality of the app, I guess. Pretty damn good for something that's free.
4. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 0.9.6.9 (Aug 24, 2009)

   Thanks dihrty but prettypop doesn't relate to my "Now Playing" complaint at all. What I want is ONE location where tracks being played ALWAYS are. Not this pain-in-the-rump "Cursor follows playback" (WTH?) nonsense.
   
   But in any case, prettypop is a very nice little plugin nonetheless and I now use it. I've been through every single plugin on fb2k.org.
   
   I have since managed to make the genre/artist/albums columns work, using foo_uie_albumlist (at least I think that's the plugin that provides the "Filter" functionality).
   
   I'm also enjoying the foo_lastfm_radio plugin.
   
   But handy plugins do not a user-friendly application make.
5. 
   netean

   Reviewing 0.9.6.9 Beta 1 (Aug 10, 2009)

   don't get me wrong, I do like foobar, it's functional and useful and plays well. But c'mon it's been in beta development for what... 5-6 years at least?
   Surely it's time to drop to the 0.9x series and move to version 1?
   
   FFS even Gmail came out of beta a few weeks ago.

Discuss foobar2000

1. Jun 10, 2009 - 9:28 AM
   roj

   Sooo, that components is PP blocking exactly? This ain't the Foobar forums, because of that fact I don't have to care which foobar denizens get their panties in a bunch (not that I would anyway) and inquiring minds want to know. :) :) ;)