Foobar2000

Post by jokoon » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 6:12 PM UTC

Post by npteljes » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #168

npteljes wrote: post #136

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Isn't it similar to how your nickname is fsckboy, cleverly iterating over the well-established fsck utility? Or is that something else, because fsckboy is not a published product in the IT space?

fooboy would be perfectly fine: a doghouse is not a dog. and the namespace for humans is much more "lexically bound" so we don't tend to get confused when multiple people are named John, just as we don't get confused with multiple cases of foo used as a metasyntactic variable; in fact, we expect it, unlike foobar2000 which demands exclusivity. Does the "2000" in foobar2000 qualify it somehow? No. Do you make sure to…

Post by 47282847 » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 8:03 PM UTC

ClueslessTech99 wrote: post #171

tryauuum wrote: post #28

It's kind of strange I have never seen any other player where you can just click on a folder and play music from it. Like two clicks, one on a folder (which loads the list of tracks) and second to start playing this list of course it's doable in any player but not with such ease

I was looking for a player that had this functionality when I switched to Linux. Finally settled on Clementine which has both a library & "file browser" mode. In the browser mode you can just right click and add the folder to your playlist. Just like in foobar2000.

Post by Modified3019 » Thu, Aug 01, 2024, 10:02 PM 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?

Post by tredre3 » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 4:52 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #173

hlandau wrote: post #170

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The problem (at least for me) is input format support. Assorted foobar2000 plugins support every obscure tracker format, every obscure video game music format (.vgz, etc.), and then foo_midi lets you render MIDIs not just with Soundfonts but with whatever VSTi DLLs you like. Also support for music files in ZIP files as well as music files in ZIP files in ZIP files (don't ask). That's hard to compete with.

mocp opens MODs/S3M's and so on. Everything else it's handled by fluid/timidity. VSTi's? Pipewire now can do that at system level. >Zip Here in Unix I can just mount archives and disk images.

    cd Downloads/
    ls
    mkdir tmp
    mount-zip myfile.zip tmp
    ls tmp
    mkdir tmp2
    mount-zip tmp/myinnerfile.zip tmp2
    audacious --new-instance tmp2 --play
    while killall -0 audacious; do
        sleep 1
    done
    umount tmp2
    umount tmp
    rmdir tmp2 tmp