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Newbie Questions about foobar on Mac

I recently bought a Macbook (MacOS 15.3.1), now I copied my favorites folder from Windows to the Mac so that I can play some music when I'm away from home with the Mac, even if I don't have internet.

It is 1 folder that holds all lossy-compressed files and all playlists (m3u and m3u8), plus 1 subfolder that holds all lossless (flac and wav) files. Some of the playlists are heterogeneous, containing lossy files from the main folder plus some lossless from the lossless subfolder.

Q1: On my Windows system, these playlists work. But on the Mac, fb only plays the files from the main directory, not the lossless ones where the playlist "dives" into the subfolder. Is there anything I can do about it?

Or can you do anything about it?

Q2: When I right-click music files or playlists in the finder and "Open with", fb is not offered*. How can I add it to be shown for anything music? Or, better even, how can I make fb my standard player for all "musical" files (including m3u and m3u8 playlists)?

(In my case that would be mp3, m4a, ogg, flac, m3u, m3u8, cue. I also have few wav, vqf and mpc, but they are not so important.)

* when I continue here with "Other", I can select foobar from the list of shown programs, but only for music files. If I try to open a m3u8 playlist, foobar is shown greyed out in the list of programs.

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Quote from: wus-55 on
Q1: On my Windows system, these playlists work. But on the Mac, fb only plays the files from the main directory, not the lossless ones where the playlist "dives" into the subfolder. Is there anything I can do about it?
I believe it's because of mac os can't understand \ backslashes in paths.
If you take your playlists, and mass-replace / with \ in them, they should work (unless they have absolute paths with drive letter, but it doesn't look like your case).
You can use Notepad++ on windows (ctrl+h), or for example, CotEditor on mac (cmd+f) to find & replace text within the playlist files.

I hope it's something they can fix within foobar, so that when reading playlists it will substitute the backslashes internally automatically to make it work.

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Q2: When I right-click music files or playlists in the finder and "Open with", fb is not offered*. How can I add it to be shown for anything music? Or, better even, how can I make fb my standard player for all "musical" files (including m3u and m3u8 playlists)?
Click on "Open With" > Other, and there underneath the list of apps it says Enable: Recommended Applications, it's a dropdown menu, click and select "All Applications", then you should be able to select foobar2000.app

Another way to set up defaults for a particular extension is to right click > "Get Info", then in the opened window there will be an "Open with:" dropdown menu where you can select a default app, and then a button under it "Change All", that button will set it as default for all files of that extension.
To be honest I still don't know if there's an easier way on mac os to make an app default for all music/sound files.
Even on windows it seems to be more complicated on 11, win 10 actually had default video/audio player setting, but I usually just assign defaults per each extension via open with.

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Wow, thanks for the quick answer @rusty82!

I will try it as soon as I find the time!

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Reply #3 –
Just realized I typed it the other way around and can't edit the message, I meant replace \ with / of course

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Reply #4 –
Hi
Im newbie too on Mac but about decade with foo on W.
Is there any way to show/activate total duration of playlist?

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Quote from: Kakophonix on
Hi
Im newbie too on Mac but about decade with foo on W.
Is there any way to show/activate total duration of playlist?


You can open Playlist Manager window, it will show you the duration of the playlist.
 

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Quote from: Guildencrantz on
You can open Playlist Manager window, it will show you the duration of the playlist.

Oui! Thanks, it has to be enough for now.
Anyway I hope it will be added to status bar some day.