My old fb2k - https://i.imgur.com/WVt3oCU.png. Loved it dearly before Spotify became a thing... Soulseek -> MusicBrainz -> Foobar2000.
Foobar2000
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Re: Foobar2000
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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. :-(
What.cd was a massive loss for the entire internet.
Some of What's Vanity house stars are now real stars with tours around the world, like "The Flashbulb"
Re: Foobar2000
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
oink and what.cd. Ahh, the memories.
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"
Re: Foobar2000
#104I didn't use it, but it looks to me like one of the main draws of foobar2000 was library/metadata management. I've only ever used directories in the filesystem as a "library," and have used many players over the years (mainly moc, which I love, but which doesn't bring anything especially valuable to the table--I mainly just like the UI and out-of-box key commands). Thus, to me, as an outsider, this whole conversation…
Agreed, I've always made sure that any metadata or info I truly care about in my MP3s is embedded in them and independent of platform.
I like Foobar for some utility tasks, but I recently had to twist into a pretzel just to add a playback speed feature that at this point should be both standard and upfront in the UI, so I don't think Foobar is thaaat great.
Re: Foobar2000
#105Foobar 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…
Same thing with a move to Mac over a decade ago. I still feel icky that most of the stuff I've listened to this past decade is archived on such a closed platform, and once in a while it itches enough that I use a downloader of sorts to try and at least archive them somewhere. But the curated library of tags, endless dynamic playlist generation, and aimless wandering through torrents and articles are all but gone. And along with it a certain aspect of the love for music.
Re: Foobar2000
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I really like music player daemon on Linux. Is foobar actually superior at reproducing sound?
> music player daemon I use it for like 15 years now. No other player is that versatile. Client/Server, very stable, small resource footprint. Recently I used mpd to play audiobooks and live radio streams on my headless server. MPD uses icecast to make the stream available in my local network so I can use chromecast and/or google assistants to listen to the streams. Its more or less running transparent in the backgro…
> MPD uses icecast to make the stream available in my local network
What is the latency like? I tried something like this but there was so much lag between a remote control input and player state changes that it was unbearable.
Re: Foobar2000
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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?
It still does - /mu/
edit - it's not as fun as I remember it used to be
Re: Foobar2000
#108Foobar is one of the greatest pieces of software ever and Linux music software only dreams it can be as good as Foobar.
MPD + any client even from the phone across home, or even the world.
Who is dreaming now?
Re: Foobar2000
#109Earlier 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.
TBF, a lot of that hasn’t really died out in niche music communities even though it might appear to be. Still widely prevalent in the metal scene at least with people moving to Reddit and Facebook as they age and stop being able to maintain forum software
Home ageing affects someone’s ability to maintain a standalone forum? Do you mean lack of free time?
Re: Foobar2000
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I've used Linux as a desktop since 2013 and to this day I still use foobar2000 as my music player under wine because I've never found anything better.
Same. Deadbeef comes close but it doesn't support all my foobar2000 metadata.
Can people who feel similar share what metadata do they miss the most? Maybe I'm a caveman, but I feel mostly satisfied with artist/title/album, plus maybe the year at most. I came to use filesystem directories for genre/mood tagging and then also artist/album obviously. It's crude, but usable and easily portable. I'm not claiming this is all one can wish for, but I'm curious.
For this kind of library I found Audacious (minimalistic, supports Winamp skins) and QMPlay 2 to be good. The latter supports and remembers your folder tree, has a very cool widget system and can be also used for videos (music or otherwise).