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Re: Foobar2000

#81

Post by impostergc » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:01 PM UTC

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.

The replacement is just as good, if not better.

Re: Foobar2000

#82

Post by Sniffnoy » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:02 PM UTC

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.

I just run Foobar under Wine. It works fine.

Re: Foobar2000

#83

Post by Sniffnoy » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:03 PM UTC

CA0DA wrote: post #40

I love foobar. Are there any alternative programs that are similar to Foobar2000 on Linux?

I just run Foobar under Wine. It works fine.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by triactual » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

hatware wrote: post #39

Anyone know why there's never been a linux version?

It feels like there’s enough interest in these comments to make it happen with some organization.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by devonkim » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

bingohbangoh wrote: post #9

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…

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.

TBF, a lot of that hasn’t really died out in niche music communities even though it might appear to be. Still widely prevalent in the metal scene at least with people moving to Reddit and Facebook as they age and stop being able to maintain forum software

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by noxvilleza » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

clearing wrote: post #78

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…

THANK YOU for this recommendation. I've been trying numerous iTunes/"Music" alternatives but none have stuck, or their price point doesn't make sense for the offering. This looks perfect!

What about Clementine [https://www.clementine-player.org/]? I used to love Amarok, so been using Clementine on Linux for the last few months.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by soulofmischief » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #47

Related: Does anyone have contact info for any of the foobar2000 folks? I'd love to get a portable package up on PortableApps.com.

FWIW, here is Peter's account on Hydrogen. I have not been able to find a public email address.

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=profile;u=84

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by pasdechance » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:20 PM UTC

noxvilleza wrote: post #86

clearing wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

THANK YOU for this recommendation. I've been trying numerous iTunes/"Music" alternatives but none have stuck, or their price point doesn't make sense for the offering. This looks perfect!

What about Clementine [ https://www.clementine-player.org/ ]? I used to love Amarok, so been using Clementine on Linux for the last few months.

Can't forget the Clementine fork https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by Semaphor » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC

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.

Rare too see a mention of Oinks Pink Palace. Such an amazing site and community. What and Waffles were never the same thing.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by entropie » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

matheusmoreira wrote: post #29

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.

I really like music player daemon on Linux. Is foobar actually superior at reproducing sound?

> music player daemon

I use it for like 15 years now. No other player is that versatile.

Client/Server, very stable, small resource footprint.

Recently I used mpd to play audiobooks and live radio streams on my headless server. MPD uses icecast to make the stream available in my local network so I can use chromecast and/or google assistants to listen to the streams. Its more or less running transparent in the background and iam very glad I found this solution.