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Re: Foobar2000

#191

Post by remram »

afterburner wrote: post #185
remram wrote: post #126

I never found a browsing interface as good as Winamp's. Basically it had three panels, in order: Artists, Albums, Tracks (you could enable "Genre"/"Year"/... as well but I rarely did). So at any point, you could select an artist and see both their albums and tracks. Or you could select no artist and see all albums and all tracks. You could select an album there and see all tracks in that album. You could pick a track…

You're comparing Winamp's music library browser to non-library players, of course they'll come up short. Itunes and MusicBee seem like they would fit your requirements.

Clementine, Amarok, Spotify, VLC, Foobar2000 are "non-library players"?

Re: Foobar2000

#192

Post by dpark »

hettygreen wrote: post #189

Kinda strange to see all of the "OMG I remember this.. ". Foobar2000 is still what I use to listen to my FLAC collection while on my desktop computers. It's ability to let you do everything, rename, transcode, copy, tag, replaygain, etc is a throwback to when software respected your personal agency.

I miss replaygain every time a playlist/station/whatever starts blasting or going nearly silent on me.

I don’t actually miss curating a collection of mp3s.

Re: Foobar2000

#193

Post by Raphael »

nyanpasu64 wrote: post #73
CA0DA wrote: post #40

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

Audacious is somewhat similar as a game emulation (eg. psf/spc) player, though I'm not sure if it's as powerful for building a media library.

It can import a folder as a giant playlist, which effectively serves as the libary.

Re: Foobar2000

#194

Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

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.

Try redacted or Orpheus

Re: Foobar2000

#195

Post by remram »

remram wrote: post #126

I never found a browsing interface as good as Winamp's. Basically it had three panels, in order: Artists, Albums, Tracks (you could enable "Genre"/"Year"/... as well but I rarely did). So at any point, you could select an artist and see both their albums and tracks. Or you could select no artist and see all albums and all tracks. You could select an album there and see all tracks in that album. You could pick a track…

I guess this had never bothered me enough before, but my rant made me research this a bit. After trying a dozen Android apps or so, Musicolet seems like the best option. It does use tabs you can swipe between, combined views, and overall seems to have a ton of useful options accessible by long-press and icons. An app enabling power-users, instead of the usual options over-refined for a single use case.

Re: Foobar2000

#196

Post by smoldesu »

unixhero wrote: post #100
bingohbangoh wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wait a second, 4chan had a music section?

/mu/ used to be a lot more interesting, but yeah. Nowadays it's mostly an Anthony Fantano discussion board, but I remember talking up some really interesting artists on there a few years ago. People would trade Death Grips demos for Monkees stems, and a number of relatively large artists used to frequent the board too. My fondest memories were chatting up Iglooghost who'd visit every so often, posting links to demos that sounded like keygen music from another planet. Dude didn't even need a tripcode: everyone knew his stuff when it came around.

Re: Foobar2000

#198

Post by mellavora »

piaste wrote: post #70
ModernMech wrote: post #61

Ugh, I almost got detention in middle school because of this app. I was talking about it and the teacher overheard me, thought I was saying FUBAR. He pulled me into the hall and started chewing me out, and I had to be like "No, it's my music player." I remember the thing I really liked about it was all the custom skins it had.

> thought I was saying FUBAR Wow, I thought FUBAR was an acronym invented specifically to be polite and not use the f-word explicitly.

I heard it was military slang designed, so yes to drop the explicit f-word, but not to be polite, rather to have an acronym since so much else is an acronym

SNAFU situation normal all fouled up

FUBAR fouled up beyond all repair

leading to the temp variable names "foo", "bar", and "baz"

Re: Foobar2000

#199

Post by wodniok »

toastercat wrote: post #74

Found foobar2000 in 2005 when I wanted a lightweight music player to play heavy metal while I played Counter-Strike Source. 17 years later and it is still my music player of choice. I've gone through maybe 6 different UIs/skins with it, all of them wildly different. My most recent being a sort of "return to form" [0]. I've since also set up a Raspberry Pi with OMV installed to act as my music server, so I can access…

Hi, can you share this theme?

Re: Foobar2000

#200

Post by dangravell »

leokennis wrote: post #113
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.

Maintainer and operator of Astiga here - thanks for mentioning the service!
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