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Re: Foobar2000

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Post by monkpit »

beart wrote: post #4

I 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.

I had a similar experience, I remember being mesmerized by the scrolling spectrogram as a teenager and wondering how it all worked. I used foobar2000 since it was lightning fast and I had systems with limited resources when I was younger.

But, my music library is long gone (or on some deprecated google offering). I moved to Spotify 10+ years ago and haven’t really looked back. I use it for multiple hours a day and don’t really have any complaints.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by ibz »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #6

Foobar is one of the greatest pieces of software ever and Linux music software only dreams it can be as good as Foobar.

Foobar2000 was my favorite as well back in my Windows days. But on Linux I think cmus does a great job. What exactly does Foobar2000 have that cmus doesn't?

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by youngNed »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #20
29athrowaway wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have yet to find a Linux app as amazing as mp3tag

I have to agree, and its a piece of software I think a lot about. It doesn't do anything particularly special, if you look at the list of features you could list off many others that do the same, and many do much more.

I like cli software, and should be drawn to beets, but yet...

but yet, i still paid 20 for mp3tag and i would do it again

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by JTon »

zelag wrote: post #15
antihero wrote: post #3

Foobar2000 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…

oink and what.cd. Ahh, the memories.

<3

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by throwaway48375 »

zelag wrote: post #15
antihero wrote: post #3

Foobar2000 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…

oink and what.cd. Ahh, the memories.

RIP

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by timeon »

antihero wrote: post #3

Foobar2000 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…

This was same for me + early last.fm and sites like c8 [1]. Now I just obtain music from Bandcamp. And on my phone it is either bandcamp.app or decoupled.app

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20080514213709/http://c8.com/

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by monkpit »

peruvian wrote: post #16
arsome wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Foobar may have more customization potential, but for my preferred layout, Clementine or Amarok 1.x were comparable if not superior options.

I ended up switching to MusicBee ( https://www.getmusicbee.com/ ), before switching to macOS. It's not as snappy but I liked the default UI and had all the batteries I needed. Also back then they had this concept of an "Inbox" for new albums, which was a special playlist of newly scanned music that you then could "move" to your library. It was good for vetting new albums before the era of streaming/YouTube.

That’s a really clever solution to an annoying problem. Before music streaming, I would sometimes order 10+ CDs on Amazon and import them all (without knowing if I liked them, just on a hunch).

Then I just ended up with lots of musical clutter in my library.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by sidpatil »

zelag wrote: post #15
antihero wrote: post #3

Foobar2000 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…

oink and what.cd. Ahh, the memories.

what.cd was one of the greatest resources available on the Internet, in my opinion. Still sad it's gone. :-(

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by ksec »

antihero wrote: post #3

Foobar2000 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…

The good old days of listening test on Hydrogen Audio and Divx / Xvid video testing on Doom9.

But as we have so much storage space and bandwidth the interest of newer, better audio codec wind down. 20 years later we still dont have anything that gives CD / 128kbps MP3 quality at half the bitrate. Instead we all went with 256Kbps AAC, and may be soon lossless. I wish MPC ( Musepack ) has taken off though, I still think it sounds better than AAC.

The same may happen to video too. The rate of Mobile 5G bandwidth improvement is much faster than video codec adoption. We used to care about sub- 1Mbps bitrate, now it is largely gone in developed counties.

Still, I am surprised Foobar2K getting updates in 2022.

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