The Foobar2000 Music Player for Windows is not for the faint of heart. It is for those who tinker, curious and patient. If you understand, this is the best music player for Windows. Foobar2000 is like Lego for music players. It is made of brick (known as interchangeable panels and components, plugins in simple terms) and you can be free but you can organize bricks if you wish. But it also poses a challenge because the blank canvas is too much. Therefore, we have already talked about the best ways to create a user interface that fits your needs in the article above, so today we are focusing on adding features and components.
All of the auxiliary ingredients are listed on this page, but you are free to download them from anywhere. Once downloaded, unzip the folder to a target. Open Foobar2000, go to “Library” “Create” and select “Components” from the left menu. So, you can either select the “Install” button and navigate to the downloaded file space, or drag and drop the file into the component list. Select Apply to install the components, you should know that the application will have to restart.
CONFIGURE PLUGINS IN THE DEFAULT INTERFACE
So you’ve downloaded plugins to display lyrics and other things. How do you add them to the user interface UI? Let me show you. Go to Show model and tick on Activate draft mode. This means that you are now free to move LEGO bricks here. So, now go to any panel you want to add or add items to, then right-click it.
Click on “Modify the user UI element” and you will get a list of functions at the application level and finally your downloaded components under the “Utility” banner. Therefore, select the one you want, click “OK”, and the panel will change. If you don’t want to change it, select “Splitter” from the list. So, it will divide the panel in half and give you an empty panel. Right-click from there and add a new component as you did above.
BEST PLUGINS FOR FOOBAR2000
Audioscrobbler
Use Last.fm to scrobble your songs and find new music? Get this plugin for Foobar2000.
Key Features of Audioscrobbler
- First, it works individually of the Last.fm customer application.
- It supports the current submission order.
- It gives now playing information to your Last.fm profile.
- Optionally, it can send played tracks from your iPod via the foo_dop part.
Podcatcher
Podcatcher is a simple method to download and receive to the latest episodes from your favorite podcasts. So, you’ll have to enter the RSS feed manually but once you’ve finished that, you’re completely set.
Columns UI
The third plugin recommended for any beginner Foobar2000 is the one that brings different user interfaces UI. So, the Columns UI takes a columnar view of the layout of the user interface and facilitates the modification or addition of new components. Therefore, after installing the plugin, go to “Layout” and select “Direct Edit”. Now right-click on any component and you will get options to change the panel, adding separators and new components directly to this menu, as you can see in the screenshot below. It’s as simple as that.
Key Features of Columns UI:
- Reading list view with grouping, illustration, and modification of line metadata
- Exchange panel and toolbar
- Filter panels to quickly filter your media library by concierge, artist or other fields
- See item details and properties panel for detailed track information
Discogs Tagger
The last thing you want in a highly personalized music player is songs without proper metadata. Discogs Tagger uses a sophisticated website metadata repository to update your song collection with data and album art.
Key Features of Discogs Tagger
- Tag files using Discogs data learn more than other taggers
- Recover the artist’s album and art
- Flexible tag mapping allows you to write the tags you need in custom tags
- Use the metadata tag to display the artists/labels/record versions Discogs www page
- Able to update specific tags later
Playlist Organizer
Arrange your playlists in a branched tree fashion (like folders) for smooth navigation with Playlist Organizer.
Graphic Equalizer
Each audio system can use a little personalization, especially computer speakers. I just want to output the audio output to the graphic equalizer.
Key Features of Graphic Equalizer
- 31 lines (1/3rd octave width)
- help/cut range of +-12 dB in .1 dB steps
- control gain
- smallest phase filters to eliminate pre-echo
- flat frequency answer
- import/export functionality
- mono and radio mode
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