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Reply #25 –
Quote from: derty2 on
    

I strongly believe that if there existed a player (and third-party dev community) for Linux which is like foobar, then that will be the day that Linux usage on the desktop will skyrocket in popularity.
The Linux community managed to band together on the internet front to create the Firefox project; it's saddening that such a thing will never happen on the music front!


Popular as foobar is here, I doubt it has that much sway in the general PC user community.

Mozilla (Firefox org) did come out with Songbird which seemed to have the potential for community sourced enhancements, but it's kind of died out, losing any support on Linux early on.

IMO the unique thing about foobar is how flexible it is while not running like a slug on older hardware.  Some of the Linux players, like Amarok, take quite a while to start up and aren't always responsive when you want to switch between podcasts and local content etc. 
 

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Reply #26 –
Quote from: DonP on
IMO the unique thing about foobar is how flexible it is while not running like a slug on older hardware.


Unless you have a media library, that is. In the Linux world, you have players where you can use a real database, that's something fb2k is really missing.
(Nag thread: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....rt=#entry811910 )