foobar2000 1.1.1

Rated 40/50 by Undesired Username at Dec 17, 2008

Who is talking about "sexy interfaces", roj? Not me. When I complain about the foobar2000 interface, it's all about usability. I despise skins and cutesy garbage.** I managed to crawl my way to a foobar2000 interface that suits my tastes, but it took figuring out which components to add, how to configure them, and how to screw around with field formatting strings. And I still rue the lack of a "Now Playing" equivalent. If you think that an easy-to-use GUI (rather than a pain-in-the-rump manual method) for customizing things like columns constitutes a "sexy interface", well whatever. ** In reply to the vehement rebuttal above: I'm not "trapped in 1990" either. Nor did I say that "anything more than a box is a waste". It's just that I find skins implemented in a stupid way about 99.5% of the time, so the mere mention of them makes me cringe. Take SnagIt 9 for example. I didn't mind the looks of its skins at all--I actually liked them. But the revised GUI was agonizingly slow. (I realize SnagIt is not a media player. It makes no difference; the point is with regard to skins, not software genre.) The same is true for skins in most cases--rather than controls that are easy to see and use, skins make them tiny and inscrutable, and at the resolutions I like to use, require the skills of a microsurgeon to live with. And when you find a skin you like, application updates invariably make the skin incompatible. And THAT is why I generally hate skins. Hey, you know what? Here's an analogy: I love the idea of cell phones--the convenience and safety is phenomenal--but sometimes, the way people use them, and the way I'm chained to my own cell phone, I wish it were 1990 again. Another nice idea, badly overused and misimplemented.

Rated 50/50 by Nighted at Dec 17, 2008

Foobar rocks (although I still prefer Winamp). Apple fanboys...take some Midol? lol

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Dec 18, 2008

You can't compare foobar to xmplay anymore. Xmplay's only function is to play-nothing more, & it's skins are completely too small to be readable on today's ws monitors (I use the NNP skin). Cover art? what's that? Plus xmplay will crash if importing a large folder (It only likes it in small increments). Under foo's, view-layout-quick setup, menu you have an albeit simple but easy menu for the skin, with cover art and all elements easily replaced and resized on the fly. This alone makes foo a star among stars. It's installer gives the option for portable mode and it's library interface is the best I have ever used, bar none. My only complaint is the lack of stream support. For that I have been using TotalRecorder which, imo, has the very best stream capabilities of any audio application I am currently aware of. The only thing priceless about visa humor is in the fact people 'still' get a kick out of it while they are taking it in the *ss. "on top of your rediculously high & totally unregulated interest rate fees, don't forget to give us an extra 20 spot each year just so you know who holds the leesh" now that's priceless

Rated 30/50 by darthbeads at Dec 18, 2008

Foobar2000: Free Internet access: $49.95 a month. Watching to fools argue on the internet: priceless.

Rated 50/50 by Darkman00 at Dec 31, 2008

I use foobar and like it :) But .. What's this about AIMP? I hear good things about it .. but never tried it yet. Is AIMP as good as foobar? .. or which one is a better one you think? I guess i should give AIMP a try one if this days.. Just to see what it is all about if nothing else :)

Rated 30/50 by some guy at Dec 31, 2008

dosnt compare to AMP or Spider , lack to many features . Change the name to sounds like something my virus program would pick up lol

Rated 50/50 by dejavu at Dec 31, 2008

Great work! Five Stars!

Rated 30/50 by darthbeads at Dec 31, 2008

Is it my primary audio player? Yes. Is it a 5-star app? Absolutely not.

Rated 40/50 by Sinister at Dec 31, 2008

No out-of-the-box Monkey's Audio support and no MIDI support. I prefer AIMP.

Rated 40/50 by psycros at Jan 1, 2009

If there was no such thing as Winamp I might use this. Its pretty responsive and has just enough essential features to serve as a primary player. Its not exactly an aesthetics champion, though.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Jan 2, 2009

Doesn't compare alright simply because there is no comparison. Aimp? That's a laugh. Winamp? Not on your life. Haven't used that crap since I learned about pc's in general. I do not have any file associations with foobar for the very simple reason it has a superb library feature. It does not change anything when I install it either. Updates perfectly, installed or portable.

Rated 50/50 by ikr6pWeaUwA1DJb9 at Jan 2, 2009

Great program with ASIO support. The best media player for APE and FLAC files I have come across. NOTE TO DEVELOPER: Just updated from 0.9.5.6 to 0.9.6.1 and the installer deleted the file shell extensions for DBpoweramp, MP3tag, and ImgBurrn in WinXP32. I had to manually re-add the deleted string values. The installer ran in [previous] mode as it should. It then deleted the Classes\foobar2000.xxx keys where these three programs had written their shellexs and created new Classes\foobar2000.xxx keys without these values. ; ADD section [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.CUE\shell\Burn using ImgBurn] @="Burn using ImgBurn" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.CUE\shell\Burn using ImgBurn\Command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\ImgBurn\\ImgBurn.exe\" /MODE WRITE /SOURCE \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.CUE\shell\Mp3tag\Command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Mp3tag\\Mp3tag.exe\" \"/cue:%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.FLAC\shell\Mp3tag\Command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Mp3tag\\Mp3tag.exe\" \"/fn:%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.FLAC\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\dMCShell] @="{2C49B5D0-ACE7-4D17-9DF0-A254A6C5A0C5}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.FLAC\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\dMCPropDetails] @="{2C49B5D0-ACE7-4D17-9DF0-A254A6C5A0C5}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.M4A\shell\Mp3tag\Command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Mp3tag\\Mp3tag.exe\" \"/fn:%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.M4A\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\dMCShell] @="{2C49B5D0-ACE7-4D17-9DF0-A254A6C5A0C5}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.M4A\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\dMCPropDetails] @="{2C49B5D0-ACE7-4D17-9DF0-A254A6C5A0C5}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\foobar2000.MP3\shell\Mp3tag\Co

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Jan 26, 2009

I had windows 7 "ultimate/bloat" running yesterday and installed foobar (WMP still sucks balls). It seemed to work OK but the wavpack decoder and the dts decoder were not compatible in that environment.

Rated 40/50 by Cooledit at Jan 31, 2009

nice and clean

Rated 10/50 by darthbeads at Feb 1, 2009

Still buggy and amateurish. Still proselytized by rabid fanboys who refuse to take off their rose-colored sunglasses and tin-foil hats to see that this player is, indeed, FUBAR.

Rated 50/50 by ailef at Feb 1, 2009

once i began to use foobar, then i forgot all others players. i used winamp then they added things like burner and video player as what i want for my music is a music player only. and foobar is that, a music player. they changed the equalizer so i always use the old dll to get the old equalizer cause it's what i want for equalizer, marks to know where i am : +1db or +5, what is no more present on new equalizer for the moment. and all plugins u need are present, especially kernel sreaming, asio, wasapi (same thing as kernel streaming or asio for vista). i stopped using builds over 0.9.5.6 on vista cause there's no more option to choose wich files u want to associate to foobar, instead u got the vista option to do that and it sucks, this prob is not on xp of course as it doesnt have the vista option to control progs files association. people looking for music player only use foobar for sure, there's no better prog just to play music. and u'll find all plugins u need to play what u want, even for online radio, u'll find all plugins to read all kind of streaming.

Rated 50/50 by mocilo74 at Feb 1, 2009

I´m using this wonderful piece of software for more than 4 years. It´the best mp3 player I came across. I tested a lot, but this one is top notch. Clean, functional, easy to use, no blender, full optimisation. 5*

Rated 40/50 by roj at Feb 2, 2009

To all the Faithful: While I do use this player and am very happy with the sound and feature set, Stop Defending The GUI. It's FUGLY. A square box with text in it goes back to the mainframe era. This is 2009. Get a grip. Hell, even Firefox has skins. That being said, even this plain interface has bugs. When transparency is used (OMG he actually deigned to put in transparency!! That's not minimalist!! Good GAWD, the BLOAT!!!), sometimes the player elements (volume control, progress status bar, etc.) do not display correctly and are blanked out. That's annoying. I've long held that this player has quality plumbing and an exterior only a mother could love. I'm going to nominate it for the software equivalent of "What Not To Wear". FOUR stars (hire a consultant to give it a makeover, PP) Oh, and I don't give a ratz azz for the myriad little fanboiz who, their feathers ruffled, will now flock to the aid of their darling. What is, IS, the player is fugly and nothing you say can change that. Try spinning the propeller on your beanie slower.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Feb 2, 2009

cd art display works oob with this. Just add the "foobar200" script in front cover options after selecting foo as your player of course. Try it! @roj ABOVE What an idiot. Do you want to watch your music or listen to it? Gui has like 8 different clickable configurations which themselves are also totally customizable. There is not another music manager with a gui that even comes close. That's a fact. On top of that it has multiple color schemes. If that's all too difficult maybe you need to head on back to itunes where you belong. This version alone has been downed well over 200,000 times. Get a clue.

Rated 50/50 by pmerritt at Feb 11, 2009

This is hands down the best audio player i've used. It supports basically every audio format you throw at it and it is very configurable. This audio player supports plugins and there seems to be a plugin to cover about everything you might want it to do. In the previous reviews a lot of people complained about the GUI and i admit the default gui is extremely.......plain. However, due to the excellent plugins available i found a skin on the web that i fell in love with (i did not create the skin). Here's a look at it and i think that anyone who sees this has to admit that foobar2000 can indeed look nice. http://img243.imageshack.../2364/foobar2000qf7.png