Foobar2000
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Foobar2000
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#2My music player for the last 2 decades.
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#3Foobar2000 was such a golden age of music discovery (mostly through piracy forums) for me in my teens, used to spend hours upon hours customising it and posting the results on Hydrogen Audio while weird and wonderful music was downloading from yousendit, rapidshare, soulseek, and megaupload. Bands I now go see live and support through bandcamp now that I'm not poor!
So much more exciting and engaging than fucking Spotify radio.
Shame the macOS one is basically nothing like the Windows one. I'd recommend Cog for something similar for macOS.
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#4I spent hours and hours customizing Foobar2000 and maintaining my library. At some point my database file was lost, and shortly after that I subscribed to Spotify. I wish I still had the time, because it was the best music player ever, and Spotify is really bad in every way other than cost.
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#5When I moved to Ubuntu, I installed Wine just for Foobar2000. Eventually moved to DeadBeef, but I'm thankful to have used Foobar2000. Having a shuffled playlist that stays in that order was enough of a draw for me and the lightweight usage was just a bonus (compared to say itunes).
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#6Foobar is one of the greatest pieces of software ever and Linux music software only dreams it can be as good as Foobar.
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#7Good player, too bad i've given up on dreaming for a linux version.(Yes i know it 'works' under wine [which is what the snap version is based on])
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#8Foobar is one of the greatest pieces of software ever and Linux music software only dreams it can be as good as Foobar.
Doubtful.
With Linux you can setup a streaming server and stream your music across different devices.
You can automatically download covers and lyrics for each song and automatically organize and index your collection for search.
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#9Foobar2000 was such a golden age of music discovery (mostly through piracy forums) for me in my teens, used to spend hours upon hours customising it and posting the results on Hydrogen Audio while weird and wonderful music was downloading from yousendit, rapidshare, soulseek, and megaupload. Bands I now go see live and support through bandcamp now that I'm not poor! So much more exciting and engaging than fucking Spo…
Music Forums (and 4chan) were amazing for discovery because you had people with extremely hard opinions arguing vociferously against others over which album was best or why such-and-such was awful.
Music recommendations feels like somebody constantly prodding you with "oh don't like this? try this!"
Perhaps it was the combative nature that made them so much fun.
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#10I loved Foobar2000 back in my Windows days. iTunes just wasn't as fun an experience.