"Best Free Music Player and Organizer'

[kec]

Originally Posted by otto88

Very very nice

does it take much to explain how to get the tags and display for your interface's; how much playing around did it take?

BIO
LYRICS

I've played with Foobar for several years. It can do almost thing you can think of, but it takes alot of trial and error. I got tired of tweaking and found this theme/skin - one of the best I've seen so far...

ZiX++ | FoobarSkins.com

I believe everything you need for this theme is included, which makes it easier to install.

[audio-kraut]

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4...enewscreen.png

cleaned mine up a bit, and here the same with the dock able bio panel

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3007/capturewbio.png

[otto88]

Where do the bios come from?

[Cassiel]

Foobar. Placebo skin.

[audio-kraut]

Here is bio panel:
foobar2000 component’u‚«�ê

scroll down the page.
You also need the dockable panel component from foobar component site.

[Pano]

Nice to see some good Foobar skins here. They look very handy.
I tried to love Foobar, but it did not love me. So I ran away with JRiver - we're happy.
Might have stuck with Foobar if I'd seen those interfaces.

JRiver does have the advantage of a killer remote interface, but it's not in the free version, AFAIK.

[audio-kraut]

JRiver does have the advantage of a killer remote interface

foobar has UpnP server and controller. And everything for free. Unless you want to help development and donate, or develop your own components.
Foobar and Ipod

foobar2000: Components Repository - iPod manager

[Pano]

iDon't own no stinking iAnything.

The reason I found JRiver is because of its vast remote capabilities. At the time, the Foobar stuff just wasn't there.

Don't make me try Foobar again! I'm very set in my ways, now.

[otto88]

Originally Posted by Pano

JRiver does have the advantage of a killer remote interface, but it's not in the free version, AFAIK.

via which devices?

thanks

[audio-kraut]

Don't make me try Foobar again! I'm very set in my ways, now.

not trying to convert those settled in their ways, just show the noobs the shining path...

I think I have tried most players out there since I have my media pc. Until I started to really tinker with foobar I used winamp, VLC and media monkey regularly.
Monkey crashed regularly, winamp t not enough options to show things my way, so after months and months of using third rate players I came back to foobar especially after they developed version 1...
Then it made sense and really has options way beyond what any of the other players offer. Maybe one or two options other players have are easier or more intuitive, but as a package foobar is way beyond any of the others, just look at the decoding options available.
I cannot think of an audio format foobar cannot decode...