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Re: Foobar2000

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Post by stavros »

galdosdi wrote: post #63
r1ch wrote: post #34

I remember writing a Foobar2000 plugin to emulate the Winamp API so my mIRC song spam scripts still functioned. It was buggy as hell as I was still new to C++ programming and it eventually got added to a hard-coded blacklist in the app for causing stability issues. I ended up open sourcing it and it still lives on 19 year later, about three forks deep and a lot more stable and functional. The power of open source!

OMG, "writing a Foobar2000 plugin to emulate the Winamp API so my mIRC song spam scripts still functioned" is such a nostalgia packed sentence for those of us of a certain age. Some of the most fun I ever had was trying to make the utterly ridiculous mIRC script programming language do things it was not meant to do. Pretty sure I recall someone I know writing a primitive web server with it IIRC

Whereas ICQ already came with one.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by sumobob2112 »

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.

Oink was such a great site, I remember feverishly following tutorials to rip my CDS in FLAC format with specific encoders just to boost my s/l ratio.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by leokennis »

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…

For people who have multiple computers or are “on the move” a lot I can recommend https://asti.ga

Basically type throw your music on a cloud or a combination of ones, Astiga scans these clouds and presents all the music it finds as one library which you can browse and play from the browser.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by lghh »

sidpatil wrote: post #28
zelag wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :-(

I mean this without hyperbole. Loseing what.cd was one of the saddest moments of my life. Losing it was on a tier below the burning of the library of alexandria, but only a single tier.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by sumobob2112 »

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.

too bad nothing like oink exists anymore, I remember being an early uploader of some interpol albums. Also people just had great music tastes, you could go to any genre and sort and find heavy hitters you didnt know, who were amazing.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by jopsen »

mariusor wrote: post #97

Foobar2000 and TotalCommander are the only pieces of software I ever regretted moving from the Windows ecosystem. Nothing I found on other platforms came even close to the level of functionality they provide for their respective classes.

Try amaroK from KDE, might still be good. I think the 1.x series was the best music player ever.

In any case, I just use Spotify these days. Much easier than having a music collection.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by lightbulbjim »

thomond wrote: post #79
ibz wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Does cmus even support MPRIS out of the box? Last time I used it it didn't.

It did last time I used it (a few years ago now).

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by pferde »

unixhero wrote: post #103
Semaphor wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I agree. Oink was VERY good and also very friendly. They also had a silly rule that "all avatars MUST be cute"

I think it was even "all avatars MUST be cute animals".

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by madars »

mariusor wrote: post #97

Foobar2000 and TotalCommander are the only pieces of software I ever regretted moving from the Windows ecosystem. Nothing I found on other platforms came even close to the level of functionality they provide for their respective classes.

100% agree. I also miss IrfanView. I ended up replacing foobar2000 with mpd+ncmpcpp for the lightweight experience but it is nowhere near the same.

I have not seen any replacements for Total Commander and it doesn't work well enough under Wine so I keep a Windows VM around to use Total Commander over SMB.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by tryauuum »

distances wrote: post #49
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 the hardest app to replace when I switched from Windows to Linux. I finally settled with Clementine which is great too, but that was basically the end for my music collection, organization and rating hobby. I had even built my own replacement to Last.fm/Audioscrobbler backed with a local database as I wasn't happy with their feature sets, and I meticulously kept all tracks uniquely identifiable with fu…

I've recently settled with running foobar2000 in wine
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