Foobar2000 • Hacker News Board

Re: Foobar2000

#101

Post by keybits » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 5:02 AM UTC

vunderba wrote: post #59

Bit of a tangent but it's kind of infuriating to me that I still haven't found anything better than Winamp (or Foobar for that matter) on a modestly powerful Windows machine. Even 20 years ago, I could literally just right-click on an entire folder sitting on my external hard-drive, and it would immediately enqueue all of those files into Winamp. I even had a bunch of Winamp plugins that could automatically handle my…

I can recommend Swinsian on macOS: https://swinsian.com/

It's a wonderful music player that handles large libraries and is quite customisable (especially smart playlists).

Re: Foobar2000

#102

Post by helloplanets » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 5:12 AM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #95

helloplanets wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are aware that foobar2000 is 21 years old, right?

you don't realize I railed against it at the time, and before that the "windows" debacle?

Wasn't aware of that, thanks for the context.

Re: Foobar2000

#103

Post by indigodaddy » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 5:43 AM UTC

I used to use xmplay on windows back in the day.. Anyone remember that one?

Re: Foobar2000

#104

Post by George_Bouras » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 5:46 AM UTC

It is the only player I use after winamp. I like music, and it very convenient, to goto folder and ther just right click and play. Thank you foobar.

Re: Foobar2000

#105

Post by mikojan » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 5:47 AM UTC

Foobar2000 was and still is the only software I missed since uninstalling Windows as a teenager (rhythmbox is pretty good though).

Re: Foobar2000

#106

Post by TiredOfLife » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 5:50 AM UTC

justin66 wrote: post #47

stuartd wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They mention one reason in the release notes: > unintended SSE CPU requirement present in previous releases has been removed.

Removing that requirement makes sense to me (in the current release or the previous releases), but I'm curious why the previous releases are deemed worth maintaining alongside the current release. What did they do feature-wise in newer versions that makes the old versions desirable to some people, to the point that a user would prefer to upgrade them rather than upgrade to the newest version? It's not about system co…

1.5 is the last version that supports Windows XP.

1.6 is the last version before the big rework.

Re: Foobar2000

#107

Post by oleg_antonyan » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 6:06 AM UTC

mikojan wrote: post #105

Foobar2000 was and still is the only software I missed since uninstalling Windows as a teenager (rhythmbox is pretty good though).

try https://github.com/olegantonyan/mpz/ not even close in terms of features, but it could be enough

Re: Foobar2000

#108

Post by insin » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 6:18 AM UTC

SeriousM wrote: post #30

happytoexplain wrote: post #23

Still my daily driver when I'm at my PC.

Where do you get your music from? Back in the old days we used cd rips and sharing platforms to get the mp3s from but nowadays streaming got so convenient.

Soulseek never went away either

Re: Foobar2000

#109

Post by Mashimo » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 6:37 AM UTC

SeriousM wrote: post #30

happytoexplain wrote: post #23

Still my daily driver when I'm at my PC.

Where do you get your music from? Back in the old days we used cd rips and sharing platforms to get the mp3s from but nowadays streaming got so convenient.

Bandcamp, traxsource, beatport, beatsource .. they all allow you to legally buy tracks in decent quality.

Re: Foobar2000

#110

Post by freep1zza » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 7:17 AM UTC

a0123 wrote: post #76

imiric wrote: post #26

It's great to see that fb2k is still around and well :) It's remarkable how they've kept the same UI since its inception, 21 years ago. It was clean, simple and intuitive back then, and still is today. Same goes for the website, now that I think of it. A true testament that simplicity trumps trend-chasing. It was my main music player after Winamp released the awful version 3.0, and I never looked back. I don't use Wi…

A remnant of simpler times. Foobar and VLC, any other software that has always worked and remained pretty much the same?

mIRC