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New to foobar

I've been using Windows Media Player for years, and I decided to give foobar a try.  I never realized how crappy WMP sounded until then.  Now I'm trying to get foobar to look nice.  I wasted hours trying this on my own.  All of the coding and different options is overwhelming.  Where is a good place for me to start learning all of this?

New to foobar

Reply #1 –
Quote from: lespaulplayer on
I've been using Windows Media Player for years, and I decided to give foobar a try.  I never realized how crappy WMP sounded until then.  Now I'm trying to get foobar to look nice.  I wasted hours trying this on my own.  All of the coding and different options is overwhelming.  Where is a good place for me to start learning all of this?


In the first place I'd go to Wiki here at Hydrogenaudio.

One of the best guides you'll find is Bashi-Bouzouks guide here.

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Reply #2 –
Quote from: Narag on
Quote from: lespaulplayer on

I've been using Windows Media Player for years, and I decided to give foobar a try.  I never realized how crappy WMP sounded until then.  Now I'm trying to get foobar to look nice.  I wasted hours trying this on my own.  All of the coding and different options is overwhelming.  Where is a good place for me to start learning all of this?


In the first place I'd go to Wiki here at Hydrogenaudio.

One of the best guides you'll find is Bashi-Bouzouks guide here.

Those sites are the ones I'd recommend too, I use those resources as well when I started

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Reply #4 –
If I had a PC, I would have a field day with foobar, because I don't see a single appearance that I like one bit.  I love customizing things.

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Reply #5 –
I've been reading through this guide:

http://tagz.brother-john.net/index.html

and I've realized what a nightmare this is to set up.  I consider myself pretty computer-savvy, but this is all way over my head.

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Reply #6 –
Try doing this first, I made a simple ColumnsUI layout at first ie: with tags as simple as just [%artist%] for a column etc.  Once you figure that out, I went ahead with trying to differentiate colours between lines (or the global colour scheme).  Afterwards, its time for the more effect kind of scripts ie: countdown timer, ratings, natural timestampes, etc.  <---For these ones I opened up a fcs files of other people's Foobar2000, then read the code, learnt/understood it then wrote my own.

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Reply #7 –
firstz of all, bes sure your files are tagged correctly, then downloadm a nice fcs. then you habe to find the way yourself...

foobar i no chldren-playground, but ißm sure you´ll handle it.

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Reply #8 –
Heh, I actually got something to work:

$if2(%album%,'Unknown Album')

Pretty proud of myself 

Thanks for the tips, I guess I'll just start messing around with small stuff.

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Reply #9 –
@lespaulplayer: Don't worry. At first I was also terrified (terrorized?) by all those things. But as the time goes by... heck, I can now understand it all!

And the components are getting more powerful by the day

Edit: And do check out the foobar2000 uploads here. Some foobar users already uploaded their fcs there. Like, for instance, tool++'s fcs here, and my fcs here. IMO, mine's a lot simpler and (perhaps) easier to understand. Screenshots of my config is here.

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Reply #10 –
So after messing with it for a couple of days, this is what I have come up with:



Not pretty, I know, but I'm working on it.

A few questions:

I'd like to use seperate colors and sizes for the title/album/artist/genre in the trackinfo panel.  How would I go about coding that in?

Also, how do I change the seekbar's color?

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Reply #11 –
Quote from: lespaulplayer on
I'd like to use seperate colors and sizes for the title/album/artist/genre in the trackinfo panel.  How would I go about coding that in?

if you need to change sizes from line to line i believe youll need this: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=47044


Quote from: lespaulplayer on
Also, how do I change the seekbar's color?


Seekbar color is taken from windows default colors/theme so its afaik changable only by visual style/theme

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Reply #12 –
Alright, here's my somewhat finalized design:



Very similar to WMP, which is what I was going for.

Only one issue though, when I load a custom buttons file, none of the buttons show up.  I made sure all the actions correspond to their image file, but nothing shows up.  Is there something I'm doing wrong?

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Reply #14 –
Heh, true.  Every time I open it I find myself tweaking more stuff.

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Reply #15 –
Quote from: lespaulplayer on
Only one issue though, when I load a custom buttons file, none of the buttons show up.  I made sure all the actions correspond to their image file, but nothing shows up.  Is there something I'm doing wrong?


Take a look at this page and especially the warnings:
http://eolindel.free.fr/foobar0.9/toolbar.shtml

"Your icons must have the same size or some will disappear.
warning You need to put the zlib.dll an libpng.dll files in your foobar directory (not the component one)"

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Reply #16 –
Hmmm? 

I think the first step that should be done is to learn the functionality of foobar and the title formatting before starting customizing. Starting with the Default Ui and look what is replaygain, the masstagger, the mass renamer, the converter, the playback queue and so on... is the best way, i think!