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KDE's Juk alternative for Windows

I'm looking for a Windows application which resembles KDE's Juk media player as much as possible.

The basic modus operandi of Juk is a library/playlist which is associated with user selectable directories. Music tracks in this playlist gets automatically (on every new application start) added/removed/updated whenever files gets added/removed/updated from the specified directories. It's not possible to delete tracks from this playlist unless you delete real files. Juk has a nice systray icon (middle mouse click - pause, mouse up -> jump to the next track in a playlist, jump to the mouse down -> previous track), also when Juk switches/jumps to a next song it shows its title in a popup window. This application must support MP3/Ogg Vorbis/FLAC formats.

I don't need a heavy-weight all-in-one application which can do about anything.

I don't quite like Foobar (it's not really simple for beginners).

Any ideas?

KDE's Juk alternative for Windows

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Boom is an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.
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• Contents of your music folders are shown, in a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view.
By default, contents of "my music" folder or Windows Music library folders are shown. You can configure Boom to index music from any other folders though.
You can install Boom to removable media and have it index contents of the folder it is installed in.
• Are your files badly tagged or missing tags alltogether? No problem, Boom can browse your music library by its folder structure.
• Supports variety of popular audio formats, including: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A, WMA.
And more. By Peter, the author of foobar2000. It seems this might be an ideal compromise between the capabilities of the latter and your desire for something more immediately simple.

KDE's Juk alternative for Windows

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http://perkele.cc/software/boom[/url] ]Boom is an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.



An awful UI, no way to show tracks as a plain list with information I'm interested in, such as bitrate, genre, track, year, etc. etc. etc.

Foobar ... it's close to what I want but it's not what I want. How can I see my library as a playlist? Foobar makes me copy my library to a new playlist and I don't want that.

Quote from: greynol on
Winamp?


Tried it (In a Library mode), didn't like it.

Edit: actually I've found all the information to set up Foobar properly. I was just too lazy before. Thanks everyone.

KDE's Juk alternative for Windows

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An awful UI
>opinions

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Foobar ... it's close to what I want but it's not what I want. How can I see my library as a playlist? Foobar makes me copy my library to a new playlist and I don't want that.
foobar2000 makes you do no such thing. Simply create an autoplaylist containing the query ALL. And, in relation to your complaints about configurable displays, it supports most things you could dream up regarding how to present both the Media Library and (Auto)playlists.

KDE's Juk alternative for Windows

Reply #6 –
If you have not given up on Foobar2000, a single autoplaylist alleviates the need for any user intervention to have to copy library to a new playlist

KDE's Juk alternative for Windows

Reply #8 –
OK, I'm almost totally content with foobar2000, but one question remains: in Juk I can jump to the next/previous track by scrolling mouse up/down when I'm hovering a systray icon.

Is it possible in Foobar2000?

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Maybe you can compile that program

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge


Juk is available for Windows but it has an enormous memory footprint and start up time as it needs to load all KDE/Qt dependencies.

KDE's Juk alternative for Windows

Reply #9 –
I’m glad you’re finding foobar2000 can meet your preferences. Once your new question is answered, please post any future fb2k-related ones in the appropriate fb2k-specific subforum rather than here.