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Tell us why have you chosen foobar2000

Reply #200 –
Plays music.

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Reply #201 –
It's quick, light, customizable, has a GIANT equalizer , lots of options to improve audio quality..

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Reply #202 –
..Because it doesn't use cheap lame "skins", very lightweight, handles large playlists, and the biggest reasons, because you design it yourself! FLAC, musepack, WAVPACK out of the box! And did I mention tweaking, and freedom to the user.

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Reply #203 –
Quintessential Player user for a fews years now from when I switched from Winamp. As much as I loved QCD, it was never updated and took a big chunk of my resources.

I have tried Foobar before when it version 8 but it never displayed ANY of my tags, so I thought I'd try version 9 which has proved to be very impressive. Its actually first time I have used a gapless player and its damn impressive and Foobars very small resource use is impresive too.

I guess from now on im using Foobar untill the next best thing comes out.

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Reply #204 –
I used another player for a long, long time because it had a great set of plugins and I knew how it worked.  I decided to give foobar another try when 0.9 came out & I'm so happy with it  ...customization, hotkeys, tagging, transcoder, title formatting, tabs, album list/db, the rational layout of the preferences page-- pretty much the entire package including the default UI.  Props to 3rd-party components developers too.

My old default player kept adding more & more unstable features that I didn't want and couldn't completely get rid of.  Now I only use it for streaming .m3u and maintaining my portable media player.  The only feature I really miss is middle-clicking a song to add to queue.  Well, that and watching the cat watch visualizations, ha.

I installed 0.7 or 0.8 and I don't remember why I didn't stick with it.  I think I was afraid of losing all my ID3v2 tags. 

@OnPoint: if you add your media to the foobar db they'll load a lot faster.  When I load my entire db of ~11500 songs they appear in the playlist immediately. /edit --like picmixer said

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Reply #205 –
Like many i used winamp for a long time.  I had heard about foobar every now and then and had give it a try maybe a year ago.  I'm not very big on coding, so it kinda overwhelmed me then.  I recently gave 0.8.3 a try and stuck with it. 

I love how customizable it is.  Adding, making and requesting different kinds of components.  I love albumart, trackinfo and columns ui.  It would be hard using foobar without those.  I also like how you can make it look completely different with .fcs and you can take those even further and change the colors used.  You can setup your library competely different, whether it be by genre or artist.  I like setting each playlist i have as a genre, so i can easily search within it.  I'm someone who likes to mess around with programs, and figure them out on my own, and this is definately the best audio player for that (and for playing music  )

Thanks to everyone that's worked on this and the 3rd party stuff.

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Reply #206 –
Someone on IRC said it was the best player.
 

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Reply #207 –
I love foobar2k, and I think there's no middle ground there. either you love it with all your heart or you hate it to death after installing it. I've been using foobar for more than a year now, after being a loyal winamp follower. I'd installed it a couple of times before that, but since I was afraid of customizing, it scared me away; now it's my only music player.

what I love:

-total control of everything (interface, sound quality commands...)
-simplicity
-easy on resources
-fast and stable
-huge EQ (actually, which other player has an 18-band EQ out of the box?)

thanks peter for this gift...

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Reply #208 –
main thing that made me switch from winamp was proper unicode support
i kept trying it and thinking why would everone use such an ugly player with nothing but a playlist, and then i saw the "post your foobar" thread

i realized that this kick's winamps ass all over the place

there is one thing i hate though, the fact that you can't have a good looking foobar right out of the box.

why not have a release with all the eye candy stuff already in (nice looking FCS, album art, etc.)
that would get more people to try it

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Reply #209 –
The main reason was BASS.dll usage for module playback. I was using winamp + xmplay. That was pretty annoying… Winamp was unable to play modules, XMplay was not so handy to use.

So using foobar as module music player was my first step to addiction ;D
Sharing delusions since 1991.

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Reply #210 –
Quote from: xan K on
-huge EQ (actually, which other player has an 18-band EQ out of the box?)

musikCube is the only one I can think of and although it's a pretty decent program, it's miles behind foobar2000 
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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Reply #211 –
I've chosen foobar2000 because I read a lot of articles about different players (and tried them). Yesterday I installed foobar2000 but now I don't realy know whether I shoud stay or not.
I'm searching a program to organize my music. That works great with foobar.
I'm searching a program to play all my music (m4u, mp3, ogg..) - That works great too.
But I'm missing a sync function like itunes for mass storage devices to hear my playlists when I'm in car.
And why doesn't the art_panel show the covers from the tags? And I've problems to organize songs in Playlists. Is there nothing like these dynamic Playlists (ITunes, musikcube)?
For me musikcube seems to be the better solution (although it doesn't show the cd-covers too)
(sorry for my terrible english ) but I will try foobar again this evening
Benne

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Reply #213 –
Until 0.8.3 foobar2000 was all about choices. All the other programs, converters and players enforce some kind of music playing paradigm, while fb2k never gets in my way. That is why I chose this wonderfully extendable music player.

The new version 0.9 had lots of choices removed, but I guess that is because the underlying structure is rebuilt, and later subversions will add choices again. The strength of fb2k was never ease of use, it was freedom for the able. I hope freedom and choices will be its future.

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Reply #214 –
Quote from: rehgf on
Until 0.8.3 foobar2000 was all about choices. All the other programs, converters and players enforce some kind of music playing paradigm, while fb2k never gets in my way. That is why I chose this wonderfully extendable music player.

The new version 0.9 had lots of choices removed, but I guess that is because the underlying structure is rebuilt, and later subversions will add choices again. The strength of fb2k was never ease of use, it was freedom for the able. I hope freedom and choices will be its future.


Yeah, I couldn't agree more, one of foobars greatest strenght is letting the user choose, I hope this will continue.

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Reply #215 –
I like the fact that it's designed as an audio player (not an all-round media player). Build-in ReplayGain (and MPC) support are pro's. The clean plug-in concept has lead to many useful plug-ins, that make foobar much more than the "basic" player it once was.

Once I had a playlist formatting and status bar of my liking, I forgot about skins  (until foo_looks  )
Just like rehgf, I very much liked that almost every time there was something you wanted to change, you could do it. To me that was (is?) the big selling point of foobar2000. Since 0.9 there is a tendency to reduce the choices to a minimum (let’s hope this won’t lead to a “We know what is good for you” kind of product in the end  ).

The radical termination of support for plug-ins, compiled for previous versions, at every (SDK-) major release is a drawback though. You’re not sure if the set of components you use now will be available for the next version. Especially noticeable since Case left the team.  But maybe Peter will say "that's the price of progress".
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

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Reply #216 –
plus:
+tons of features
+great tags/text customization features
+speed
+clean structure
+utf-8
+active developpement
+audio quality

minus:
-can be a bitch to customize
-lack of outer ui customization(aka rollup/rolldown, buttons in windows title, more options for windows title customization)
-nothing else?


A truely awesome player that's close to perfection

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Reply #217 –
Years ago, I used Winamp. I then migrated to Quintessential Player for a long time. About two years ago or so, I moved to foobar2000 0.8.3. It's light, it's customizable, and it's powerful. I'm tempted to upgrade to 0.9.1, but the thought of reconfiguring foobar2000 from scratch is enough to totally dissuade me. I have not the time nor the inclination.

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Reply #218 –
Quote
0.9.1:

* Faster Ogg Vorbis tag editing.


I love you foobar2000.

(Oh what's up with Case? why did he leave the devteam?)
stimulating the audio nerve directly

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Reply #219 –
I've been using mpxplay (great app btw.) with winamp, then i've found foobar, customised some keyboard shortcuts and sticked with it...
mainly i found amazing the gapless mp3 playback, what was not so common back then (and it's still not)

yeah and i liked the special installer until v0.9 came out, hope we'll see something like that soon, 'cause i'm too lasy to collect plug-ins on my own

since i definitely waved goodbye to Win98/DOS this winter, i can't use mpxplay anymore so foo became my primary/only music player

and for you who are complaining about foobar's 'uglyness' take a look at mpxplay (mpxplay.cjb.net) to see the best music player interface ever !!!
(text mode, configuration through a .cfg file, hope it will be ported to win32 once)

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Reply #220 –
It does just-the-basics to everything depending on how you prefer it to be. 

F00bar gives you a choice, all other player gives you crap that you're stuck with. 

I pity the non-f00ballers! 

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Reply #221 –
You don't have to deal with or be slowed down by video media like in winamp, itunes and windows media player.  Has lots of flexibilty to do anything with all the plugins available.  Works great, sound great, is lite weight and keeps getting better.

The best part is its not from microsoft or apple.

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Reply #222 –
foobar2000 v0.9.1 it is the best audio player I have ever tried, it is not bloated like the others and it simple to configure and will play any audio formats I have played so far. I am using it to stream music from the net/using shoutcast radio links. It is simply the best coded work I have seen yet. Thank you for your great work.

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Reply #223 –
Plays everything.
It's soft.
It's free.
It's beautiful.
It has nice icons for the files
-foobar2000 + Burrrn + EAC
-HD 80Gb using High QualityVBR MP3s

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Reply #224 –
Why ? Because it's the future, and noone can deny it. And keep in mind that a conservative user tells you that.
Furthermore I REALLY appreciate the open sourced-principle and once I've got more time I'll form foobar
a bit more to my personal needs accepting absolutely NO differences between digital original Audio-CDs and
physical original Audio-CDs. You'll profit by that one day...

And the well sorted handling with a huge number of albums keeping everything clear and tidy... this
tool has it's moments... not to forget that this player is one of the most lossless-friendly ones...

you can't stop foobalisation ;D ;D ;D