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Tell us why have you chosen foobar2000

Reply #275 –
+ Lightweight
+ Replaygain
+ Unicode
+ files inside archives
+ DSPs
+ Converter

= I see no good reason to upgrade from 0.8.3.

- Not Free Open Source Software.
- No ports to other platforms either.
She is waiting in the air

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Reply #276 –
plays 99% of my file types, the looks the icons. the lightness of it.... Foobar2000 is just so amazing and FREE, you can't beat this anywhere... Rock On Foobar2000 and Everyone who helps with plugins etc...

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Reply #277 –
I've used Windows Media Player, MusicMatch Jukebox, JetAudio, iTunes, Songbird, VLC, and Winamp over the last few years. Out of all those I like foobar2000 the most.

iTunes was my favourite since version 5-something. Once Apple released version 7 with its bloat, bugs, and 30 MB memory footprint I kicked it off and went to foo. FLAC and ReplayGain support was just the icing on top of the tiny 2-3 MB memory footprint and Windows GUI.

Now I'm beginning to understand the complexity of components and skinning. I liken foo to GNU\Linux – a huge learning curve for a huge amount of control.

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Reply #278 –
Except Linux is opensource /scowls
hi

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Reply #279 –
Originally because I heard of its customizability and I saw someon's great looking foobar. Then I found out it had a minuscule memory footprint and I really needed that on my poor 6-yr old 128mbRAM computer (the better one broke )
Now I'm unearthing all my qualms with previous audio players and making big plans for my future musical enjoyment/organization/complete customization.

?eace

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Reply #280 –
I discovered foobar 2 years ago. It was the most incredible software discovery I ever made. I switched over to it mainly because I found Windows Media Player to be too slow at loading large playlists. I didn't even know how powerful it was, until I found out the beauty of customization (columns, customizable plugins, a fast database feature). It's the one piece of software I couldn't live without, seriously.

Cheers to foobar!!!

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Reply #281 –
well i love the customization in it, even though i dont try and learn the coding and make my own mod. But winamp is faster. fb has tons of features and mods to it so thats why i use it.

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Reply #282 –
I used to like winamp but now i'm using foobar only for 2 reasons :
Very light
Multiple playlist

Don't care about design or else, since I'm listening with my ears 

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Reply #283 –
It's lightweight and I can make it do what I want it to do and ONLY what I want it to do. That's what I look for in all software.

Also, making it pretty is a good way to kill some time when some time needs to be killed.

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Reply #284 –
I like how you get it out of the box and from then on you build on it until you get you get what you want.  I like how, in my words, it's not "bloated."

At first, I didn't like it.  I thought it was way too minimalist. After a while, I realized that it was what I always wanted, a music player that plays virtually any file type, while leaving a very small footprint in resources.  I was just addicted to the "features" of Windows Media Player.  But in actuality Foobar has way more features, without getting in the way.

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Reply #285 –
I ran 0.8.3 alongside Winamp (favoring the latter) until 0.9.X when I started learning how to use it.  Preferred:

+ Unicode
+ Columns UI sort-by-album
+ foo_alarm -> foo_scheduler
+ Doesn't die on 60,000 file playlist
+ Tabbed playlists
+ Album list
+ Album art

Maybe if I had decent speakers I'd care more about sound quality...

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Reply #286 –
Foobar plays music. Period. Highly customizable, scriptable interface and ability to confugre almost every function makes foobar an application that does exactly what and how I want. No more oversized super-cool players with good look as highest priority, filled with stuff I don't need or don't care about. Besides, foobar sounds just perfect. And on top of that gapeless playback. Something I absolutely require.

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Reply #287 –
lightweight
highly customizable
nice EQ
replay gain
plays all types of music

the best audio player available !

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Reply #288 –
I just use it, because it plays allmost every musictype and because it is fully customisable  and that´s so much fun  coding arround and finding the right looking.

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Reply #289 –
i switched from winamp and have never looked back.

using 0.9 only thing i miss from 0.8.3 is the freedb. i know there is one in 0.9 but it doesnt run mp3 files
 

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Reply #291 –
Lets see...
When i started listening to music on a computer (about 1999) i only knew about Winamp and i used it until a friend of mine said "try foobar its much better than Winamp". I gave it a go (this might have been around .6 or .7), but i didnt find it to be what i needed at the time. I often use Now playing scripts on irc and didnt know about any way to do that with foobar at that time.
But some months ago, Winamp fucked me over. Wouldnt wanna play a song without crashing. So i remembered about foobar and pulled it down. And at this time i had allready started to use AMIP and knew it worked with foobar. So the deal was sealed. Now that I've gotten in to foobar a little more.
I really LOVE it.

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Reply #293 –
"or why you don't like it"

It would be really nice if Foobar used a programming language that already existed...I don't know very many but it just seems that inventing a language just for foobar when there are plenty languages available out there is overkill.
Especially when you think that the people who take time to customize their foo aren't going to be turned off by using a language they perhaps already know.
eh, whatevs.

?eace

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Reply #294 –
After Winamp's recent obsession with cramming thousands of ads and flashy plugins, along with hip cool features... I've become completely disappointed with my beloved media player.

Earlier tonight I was introducing a friend to some new music via SHOUTcast/Winamp, he asked me to leave it going all night, no biggie, I have plenty of bandwidth. Then I realized I really didn't feel like listening to that anymore, so I thought, why don't I just get a small audio player, I can check out something new, and have an alternative. First option that came to mind was Foo2k...

Downloaded it, installed it, added my library, completely loved it. Foo2k is everything I need/want in an audio player and nothing I don't. This program is the perfect mixture of flexibility and functionality.

Keep up the great work guys.

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Reply #295 –
Quote from: nilsHaus on
It would be really nice if Foobar used a programming language that already existed...I don't know very many but it just seems that inventing a language just for foobar when there are plenty languages available out there is overkill.
Especially when you think that the people who take time to customize their foo aren't going to be turned off by using a language they perhaps already know.
eh, whatevs.


See here: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...r2000:Tagscript
Unfortunately, it was removed.
Always defragment your MP3s to avoid subtle lack in harmonics.

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Reply #296 –
All of the good things have been named, so I'll say some of the things I don't like:

There doesn't seem to be a way of making f2k add to a specified playlist and then playing at all. Especially from external sources like Windows Explorer and WLM (received files). The quickest way I have discovered is by making it add to a playlist, then using my global hotkeys, ctrl+numpad6 (next track), ctrl+numpad5 (play). Send to playlist replaces the whole playlist with on track, and add doesn't play it.

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Reply #297 –
It's fast, light, stable, and versatile.  I still use 0.8.3 though.  They don't have my favorite pluggies on 9, and I don't care for the new look.  It could be worse though. (iTunes...GAK!)

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Reply #298 –
It lets me listen to music the way I wan't to, instead of making me listen to music the way some big company wants me to (like with winamp and windows media player).

It is so extremly customizeable. The main point of the program is to work well, and it does just that.
And if you believe theres not a chance to die...

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Reply #299 –
after having winamp freeze up on me after playing for a certain amount of time and crashing a handful of times in one day  I started looking for something else and FB2K was ranked pretty high on softpedia so I gave it a shot.