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Re: Foobar2000

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Post by mariusor »

majkinetor wrote: post #170
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.

Double Commander is near 100% clone of TC and cross-platform.

I don't really agree. Total commander has a lot of man hours spent into polishing its exceedingly large feature set. It's extensibility is not really reached by anything.

Now that I had to comment about both foobar and TC, I realize that probably why I was so found of them both was their large plugin ecosystem that allowed less mainstream usages for them.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by majkinetor »

mariusor wrote: post #211
majkinetor wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Double Commander is near 100% clone of TC and cross-platform.

I don't really agree. Total commander has a lot of man hours spent into polishing its exceedingly large feature set. It's extensibility is not really reached by anything. Now that I had to comment about both foobar and TC, I realize that probably why I was so found of them both was their large plugin ecosystem that allowed less mainstream usages for them.

DC is developed in last 10 years, so its not young product. TC is developed by single person and has VERY slow development - Ghisler. DC supports TC plugins, and interface is better on lots of things (ie. multi rename tool, config etc.).

I am telling you as someone who uses both constantly - the reason I do so is because DC is great but it still have one bug with network path freezing that is very annoying to me so I still use TC for that reason. Some TC plugins don't work fully in DC. That is all that is wrong. Plugin problem is rare and its not that big, but network glitch is bad. The moment it goes away TC goes away from my life too.

DC is getting momentum and the more people that support it, the better it will be.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by mariusor »

majkinetor wrote: post #212
mariusor wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really agree. Total commander has a lot of man hours spent into polishing its exceedingly large feature set. It's extensibility is not really reached by anything. Now that I had to comment about both foobar and TC, I realize that probably why I was so found of them both was their large plugin ecosystem that allowed less mainstream usages for them.

DC is developed in last 10 years, so its not young product. TC is developed by single person and has VERY slow development - Ghisler. DC supports TC plugins, and interface is better on lots of things (ie. multi rename tool, config etc.). I am telling you as someone who uses both constantly - the reason I do so is because DC is great but it still have one bug with network path freezing that is very annoying to me so I…

That's very interesting, thank you for taking the time to reply. I based what I said on trying it sometime in 2007-2008, which looking at the commit history seems to be very close to when it was actually launched. I had no idea it was maintained for all this time, so it definitely warrants a new look. :)

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by majkinetor »

mariusor wrote: post #213
majkinetor wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DC is developed in last 10 years, so its not young product. TC is developed by single person and has VERY slow development - Ghisler. DC supports TC plugins, and interface is better on lots of things (ie. multi rename tool, config etc.). I am telling you as someone who uses both constantly - the reason I do so is because DC is great but it still have one bug with network path freezing that is very annoying to me so I…

That's very interesting, thank you for taking the time to reply. I based what I said on trying it sometime in 2007-2008, which looking at the commit history seems to be very close to when it was actually launched. I had no idea it was maintained for all this time, so it definitely warrants a new look. :)

Check how same they look, this is the minimal theme I use for both:

- DC: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/dcc-unlit

- TC: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/tcc-unlit

You also have there bunch of plugins for both:

- https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Atcplugin

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by JohnTHaller »

soulofmischief wrote: post #87
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

Thanks, dropped him a note.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by noxvilleza »

pasdechance wrote: post #88
noxvilleza wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Ah, wasn't even aware of a fork (but makes sense!).

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by galdosdi »

hug wrote: post #173
galdosdi wrote: post #63

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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

I wrote a reeaally primitive SMTP server in mIRC's scripting language. The reasoning, of course, was that there was an IRC server that I frequented that required a web sign-up, so I wrote mIRC script that screen-scraped the sign-up page, solved the "captcha" (an unobfuscated type-in-this-number field solved by using an open source OCR library) and then used a random local-part and a host-part of a dotted quad -- thin…

> Being a dick on IRC was how I learned to program. What a blast.

AWESOME memory you describe there.

OMG, fond memories of the day me and my IRC friends in high school somehow figured out that there was a bug in our network's ircd that allowed us to cause the server to segfault simply by setting a strange combination of a large number of modes on a channel.

The ops were pissed but they got less pissed after I submitted a patch, after I went looking in the C source code and figured out it was probably a buffer overrun.... Something like maxing out an undersized buffer by using every zero argument mode possible, duplicating modes and as many one argument modes with long nicknames... like MODE #channel +mmmvv LongNickGuy1asdfasf LongNickGuy2skldjfaklsjd

...and that was my first non toy experience with C!

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by toastercat »

wodniok wrote: post #199
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?

Sure. Since it's less of a theme and more of a custom configuration, here is a link to the installation (it's a portable install, so no need for folders in `AppData`. Just place this anywhere, and run foobar.exe): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j9yfv18j8b2mss4/AABgDgZUfm0KuvEi6...

Additionally, I use the 'Fira Code' font for the UI, so you must have that installed if you want your foobar to look the same. That font is freely available here: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by digital_voodoo »

theptip wrote: post #139
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…

Agreed. Such a step back in power user features these days; being able to say "create a playlist of all songs in genre X with 4+ stars" or "Play 5 star songs I haven't listened to in at least 12 months" was amazing. It seems that the "stream any song instantly" usecase is winning out, but I really pine for some metadata / playlist overlay that I could use to regain this sort of control of my music streaming.

That was and still is the main way I use music players. On any (new) platform I always look for the one that provides such possibilities.

I was a Winamp guy on Windows, now I'm using Swinsian on Mac and both GoneMad and PlayerPro on Android.

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