Foobar2000 - User Interface Gallery

Sorted problem was with characters that can't be in filename  i.e. The Cure 4:13  Dream , GP/Grievous Angel  - Re-Ripped in EAC  using "-"  Cheers.. AlbumArt UI working as well   cheers PJ

kena:

Sorted problem was with characters that can't be in filename  i.e. The Cure 4:13  Dream , GP/Grievous Angel  - Re-Ripped in EAC  using "-"  Cheers.. AlbumArt UI working as well   cheers PJ

You are able to change the value of the tags using foobar. Just right click the music track and select properties and change as required. You can change whole albums at a time by selecting multiple tracks and then right clicking. Still, reripping also works....and it's a result that you've got everything's working.

What do you think of Album Art Downloader XUI?

It great tho only just set it up and tested  a few times - Have ripped about 25 CD's now for test - Just need my 20 metre Ethernet to run via attic from PC to living room to resolve playback issues and hopefully sorted .

PJ - Started to have a play with Foobar heres what i've got so far many thanks  to you for your advice / primer .  

 

Nice!

Here's where I am with Foobar - Two views Album & Playlist  (Playlist seperate for  better display on laptop) , Pretty happy with it...

 

Here is my Foobar2000 UI. It took a little tweaking but I am now happy with the results. With thanks to PJPro, it wouldn't have been possible without his configuration guides.

 

 

 

Have amended my playlist view to show art ,Think I'm almost finished tinkering...

mattjax05:

Here is my Foobar2000 UI. It took a little tweaking but I am now happy with the results. With thanks to PJPro, it wouldn't have been possible without his configuration guides.

Looks cool mattjax05.....glad to be of help.

kena:

Have amended my playlist view to show art ,Think I'm almost finished tinkering...

Nice kena. Do most albums have the front/back/insde art available?

I notice that people aren't using star ratings in their implementations. Is this through choice?

I've managed to set up auto-generated playlists with star ratings. So you award a track 5 stars, it gets added to the playlist. You can just see the four star plus and five star playlists added in the top left panel of my hci.

PJPro:

kena:

Have amended my playlist view to show art ,Think I'm almost finished tinkering...

Nice kena. Do most albums have the front/back/insde art available?

No usually only  front/back available via art downloader,  I scanned the missing art when I was ripping CD's and double checking I'd copied them all.

Not using star ratings due to the fact not using as main source yet , your way sounds a good idea and will try that when I go live .. (Need  dedicated laptop so here's hoping fo xmas!!) 

I've been trying to follow postings on this forum and other places on how to configure Foobar2000, with varying success!!! Could anyone please help me with any of the following?

I want Chronflow to display my albums sorted by album artist. In other words I want to see all my Beatles albums together followed by Beautiful South etc. However, I have a large number of compilations albums. When I group by album artist I see all the artists from the compilation albums such that the compilation albums appear multiple times. When I try to group by album and sort by album artist I don't get albums from the same band grouped together. Instead of being sorted by album artist, as I want, they are just sorted by album name. This is driving me mad. How do I get the compilation albums to appear just once whilst still get all artists albums grouped together, or is this not possible?

When I select "new playlist" I get a playlist called "new playlist" but I can't find out how I tell Foobar2000 what I want this playlist to do. For example, I want to say all 60's Rock as once playlist. Does Foobar2000 not have smart playlists like iTunes or am I just being stupid?

I've installed the iPod component but whenever I try and do anything with it I get an error message saying that I don't have an iPod. But my iPod Touch is connected to my computer. How do I convince it that I do have an iPod?

In the Foobar2000 console I get loads of messages saying "Location not parsable: "M:MusicFLACYesClose to the EdgeFolder.jpg", reason: Unsupported file format". Is Foobar2000 trying to play these files for some reason?

It seems to me that Foobar2000 is really a powerful player but boy is it frustrating trying to get it to work how you want!! Does anyone know of a good user guide?

Leo

LeoL,

Various artist issue easily resolved by ensuring you use the tag %Artist Name% for the track performer and use the %Album Artist% tag as Various.

Do a google search search on Foobar smart playlists and check another site.

No Ipod so can't advise sorry.. 

Foobar console - certainly don't get that msg on every JPG  and JPG's don't need to be excluded in media library settings - but dont have access to my NAS at mo  so cant fire up Foobar to play and check

Sorry can't help with all your queries but hope it's a start and will check out console msg tommorrow if i get a chance.  Good luck  Foobar is  worth tinkering with but also their are various skins available to download  that you will find on another forum that might suit - I really  like Tedgos's the Dark One 1.6 skin  - use it on sons PC,  while I like attempting my own thing on mine. 

 

kena:

Various artist issue easily resolved by ensuring you use the tag %Artist Name% for the track performer and use the %Album Artist% tag as Various.

Thanks for the reply but you lost me with this. Could you explain this a little more?