Any good foobar addons?

I recently made a permanent switch from Winamp to foobar. Any of you guys know any good ones? Something like a mp3/artwork editor

My current addons
- Keyboard Hotkey support for Razer keyboard
- WASAPI support
- ASIO support
- ABX comparator
- Top 20 EQ presets

Also wheres the slider for left and right channels?

 

Foobar UI mods. The only other I use is WASAPI, I am a minimalist when it comes to sound. 2 channel only here. No EQ, nothing else.

 

Try ASIO support to bypass the windows Kernel if I'm not mistaken. I'm running that, works fine.

The UPnP/DLNA "thing" might be useful if you have a central location that you share your music from.

The split equalizer could be interesting to you too...

And the archive decoder.

Here is a screenshot - and I think I'd really need a skin for my installation... on another note though, I do not care about album art.... it's pretty much non-existent in my music library... -> audio CDs copied with Exact Audio Copy...



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If you are using Windows 7, use WASAPI instead since the ASIO is just an emulator anyhow, guessing you are using ASIO4All. I did have an actual ASIO driver for my DAC though which works fine, but WASAPI I use now instead on that DAC also.

 

Vista no clue what Asio it is, some stuff that Sony delivered with the laptop... definitely a much louder output than without it though.

Possibly clearer too, but I didn't test that.

The idea of switching off Windows Sounds with WASAPI doesn't appeal to me though... I like my notifications...

 

I only use WASAPI for my DAC's. My speakers are still connected to the onboard audio,, so i can use both and i dont need to switch everytime i use foobar.

What theme is that?

 

For themes on Foobar I'd check out HydrogenAudio. I used a pre-packaged theme DarkOne. Made some very minor changes to make it look the way I want.

But the theme uses a dozen other addons for Foobar. HydrogenAudio should have details on all of these Addons so if you are more savvy with coding etc, you can build your own theme. They have a dedicated forum for Foobar. There are some really cool looking themes, but they are too flashy for me. This is the perfect blend of minimal/flash for me.

I really love the waveform seek bar, it's not just a cool looking waveform, it's how you seek. But if I hear my music clipping, now I can visually see why and then cry a little.

Muse, oh Muse, the worst mastered albums of all time.


AC/DC TNT 1976 (Pure Awesome mastering/recording)

 

Any chance you can link to it directly? I did a quick search through the kins thread and didn't find yours... but maybe I'm blind...?

Edit:
I think I found it - http://tedgo.deviantart.com/art/DarkOne-v3-0-1-187628705

Edit2:
The skin is really lovely except that the playlist has become rather bloated... I don't need album art next to every title... an removing it still gives every track an "artist header" - that might be useful is you have several albums in your playlist, but I just threw some songs together... and well... it's a waste of space...

Any way that can be changed easily?

 

Okay thanks for the skin, im liking it.

I just need one more thing. I need to integrate an equalizer. Is this possible?

I want it where the red X is:

 

I changed from winamp to foobar not long ago as well.

I still use winamp if I want to play a single song or set of songs in a windows folder but when I want to play my library of music I use foobar.

I tried panelsUI with fooava at first as it was the first time I was able to get my foobar to look good and work good (tabbed filter browsing) but it did not support the new version of foobar or embedded over art so it had to go.

I then later got the same kind of setup almost using foobars included columsui and now I am pretty happy with it.






I like Songbird too as it does the filter browsing with no hassles, looks good, but it does not have all the advanced features of foobar and great plugins like ASIO or WASAPI output.

Songbird does allow you to search withing your filters while foobar only lets you search the library thats one thing I do wish foobar would do.

So say I want to hear classical music, I can type "classical" or just a partial search and find results in my filter under genre and double click it and hear all classical music.

Foobar however wont do that i would only find hits in my library for the album or something since I keep my library sorted by album.


The one thing I want to do most right now with my foobar is add a seek bar down below just above my media info in the center. That waveform seek bar will be fine, but I cant seem to get the UI to let me create 2 entries in the center without messing up the 2 side pieces. Its not like a HTML table :/

Edit: tried out the waveform seekbar.




Lots of my files look really blown out even though I know they are not, I guess its not a really detailed graph since its so condensed. Wish it had a no-seek mode where you could set a zoom level and it would just play and scroll through the graph as it plays.


See how I took away my winamp AVS in the left, moved my media data there and put the seekbar in the center? This was just for testing.

What I really want to do is split that center area in half vertically and put the media data on one side and the seek bar on the other while keeping my AVS on the left and cover art on the right. Anybody know how to do this with colums ui in foobar? Every time I add a splitter it does not work right.

 

Sorry
I can't help with the desing in columns UI... heck... I only figured out how the scratchbox works the days before yesterday...

 

You can easily add more panels to the ColumnsUI. If you go to Menu, then file, preferences. You'll see ColumnUI option and in the layout tab you can see all the panels added. From there you can just right click and a menu will open to add more panels.

The problem is I haven't seen or found any Equalizer panels. If you can make one go for it. Either make one for ColumnsUI or somehow make one appear the WSH Panel Mod.

I don't know how to do this. I do know you can mod one of the buttons though to open the Equalizer or you can just create a hotkey for Equalizer.

So if you just right click the set of buttons above where the file details used to be. Right click, press configure. And on the set of function codes for buttons, can replace one of the with fb.RunMainMenuCommand("Equalizer")

 

If you're using Windows 7, the Windows 7 Integration addon is quite nice. I'm also using an auto-lyrics plugin that automatically downloads and scrolls the lyrics of songs with lyrics--see screenshot below. My setup is pretty standard foobar2000, but I like it since it's so quick, simple, and efficient

Spoiler

 

Yeah I know how to add panels, if not those current panels would not be there, the problem is adding new "divisions" be they vertical or horizontal they just fall in as a new panel instead of giving me a split like I want.

I want that center bottom panel split horizontaly so I can use 2 different panels there, one my media info and one the waveform seekbar.

 

some of these might be included in the standard distro now (back in the .8 and .9 days, many weren't), but....

I use MiniLyrics for lyrics.

columns UI is a must. you can go nuts with foobar scripting but i think the need for it is less these days (I've been using foobar for 8 years now and my UI is done with scripts and I haven't changed it in a long time).

OSD is a great plugin if you have all the balloons and tray icons turned off. i have mine set to pop on for a couple seconds for song switches and pause/unpause.

I DL a lot of new music so preview is nice a nice addon to scan through a bunch of music quickly.

i use the control server addon to control foobar from another pc on the home network via telnet.

there are a bunch of tagger addons if you need/want to tag music from freedb or LiveShow sources.

autosave (foo_jesus) is a nice addon to save config, playlists, history, etc...

there is a binary comparator that is nice to do dupe checking.

there are some cuesheet creators if you want/need to do that.

decoding speed test is useful if you want to check compression levels of various codecs.

feature watcher (foo_whatsnew) is a must have to see if the config changes in between sessions.

pause on lock if you lock your pc and want to auto-pause it.

if you do a lot of playlists, there are a bunch of playlist tools.

and, depending on what music files you have, there are tons of decoders. also, a bunch of decoders to read 7zip, zip, rar, etc... while compressed.

 

I wish I knew how to make my foobar2000 as cool as everyone else's. I just use the default UI with last.fm support and the scheduler plug-in.

It's also messed up the tags on all my MP3s (but not my FLACs, thankfully).

 

ewww id die if my tags got messed up, it was a huge project to tag all my files and get cover art for them.

i dont let foobar edit anything on my files it just reads them.

 

Use DarkOne which I linked to earlier - before that I also used the standard layout.

On the tags - mine doesn't change any - not sure what happened there...

 

foobar still recognizes all the tags just fine

but Windows and my portable media players never recognize them now

 

My guess is a changed "tagging standard"... but I wonder how that happened...

 

Mp3Tag is a good program to use to get your tags right, although personally I find that foobar2000 manages tags very well. It has pretty powerful bulk tag editing features.

 

there are a few "sub-standards" for ID3V2 tagging. Check in the advanced options page in prefs (way at the bottom). try changing the settings are re-writing the tags and see what they look like in another app.

i've used foo to tag stuff that rockbox (on a Gen5.5 ipod video but I don't think it would matter) recognizes just fine. I had an old Dell DJ that would read the tags as well...

i don't usually tag in foobar because it used to be way difficult and i've developed other personal l workflows. mp3tag would be the "gold standard" for tagging...

 

one of the foobar hang-outs has a forum for people to post their configs for others to steal and play with. hydrogenaudio would be the best place to start - it's probably in their forums or wiki - been a while since i've been there...

 

MP3Tag is what I use +1

Does tags for every file type I have ever tried, embeds artwork, and lets me do stuff like convert from file name to tag and vice versa. Handy for files with no tags that I had ripped in the past and do not have the CD for database lookup and for my game music collection that was ripped from games with no actual CD.