Show us your Foobar2000 layout

[alehel]

I started using Foobar2000 for the first time today after having purchased a Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus. At first I was utterfly confused by the program, but after some messing around I started to understand how it works. I spent a few hours creating my own layout, and I'm quite pleased with the results. I then became interested in knowing how everyone here has set up their Foobar2000 layout and thought people might be interested in sharing.

 

Here is my current layout

[Henry66]

I use foobar2000 only for analyzing track/album gain and DR values. So I have set it up for showing as much technical information as possible. I still find it very confusing to configure. I can't remember how I got it to look like this.

[alehel]

I didn't know you could measure DR with Foobar2000. Is that a plugin you downloaded?

[Henry66]

I didn't know you could measure DR with Foobar2000. Is that a plugin you downloaded?

I got the DR plugin for foobar2000 from the link at the top right here: DR Database

 

After installing it, configure it to "Write DR meta data tags":

 

Then after analyzing tracks you should see the <DYNAMIC RANGE> tag set to the DR value:

 

Finally, configure the columns with shorter names so they don't take up so much space:

[alehel]

Thanks. Worked great.

[Synfreak]

I'm using Foobar since about three years now, and it has been taken its place as my main music serving "system" in the meantime.

 

To reflect my needs/wishes in terms of usability (I do suffer from a heafty limited vision), and to be able to incorporate some (maybe quite special !?) read-outs from my costumized tags, I took a pre-configured - and very well documented! - "Skin" *) and developed my own one out of it.

 

There was quite some work - and experimentation - involved, but in the end (if there is omething like "an end" in costumizing Foobar ...) I'm quite happy with what I have achieved (so far).

 

Some of the featured I had to get working are:

- it shows a (red) "HDCD" tag in the main display, if HDCD encoded tracks are played (replacing the tagged "Source" information)

- it has a different information-setting in the playlist for pop/jazz ... and classical music, which is triggered by a costum tag ("swith") to display the conductor and the orchestra instead of the used "Info" tag.

- it displays wordlenght, samplerates, used codec, MD5 info, Bitrate, Channel-Info, ... partly from costum tags, partly from file-properties, ...

- it incorporates DR-Range information for tracks and for album

- ......

 

 

 

As said, there is still some work to be done/finished - mainly some optical/cosmetical changes, but ... ;-)

 

 

The skin I used as a basis for my work can be found here:

DarkOne v3.1 by tedgo on deviantART

but beware, it has been developed to a much higher standard since I've started using it ...

[Henry66]

Hey thanks Synfreak, after seeing your screenshots I gave DarkOne v4 a try. I like it! But can you give me a hint how to get the DR values displayed in the play list?

[Synfreak]

Henry66,

 

I will take a look into the settings of the playlist in TedGo's DarkOne V.4, but this might take some time ... ;-)

 

As I said above, I used DarkOne as a starting point, and ripped out (almost) anything to get to what I have now.

I also incorporated some ideas (scripts) from later DarkOne versions (2.x, 3.x and even 4.x) into my own layout.

 

So please stay tuned, I will try ...

[Synfreak]

Henry66,

as promised, here ya go:

 

 

If you PM me your email adress, I will send you the needed script for the ELPlaylist, which could be imported into your DarkOne V.4.x settings ...

[joopdewildehengelo]

In showing your Foobar layout I was wondering if you are willing to share your layout. I use myself the Darkone 3.1 Darkone 4 or the Catrox layout all have some very nice things but what I read about your layout is the changement in information by classical and popular music. I am special interested in the automatic changing to the classical part.

[Synfreak]

Hi

 

There has been quite some interest in my Foobar skin, and I got a lot of PMs asking about to share my skin too.

 

The main "problem" would be that i won't be able to guide all through the needed extra steps in setting up Foobar to make use of some of the needed extras I've implemented - i.e. some costum tags to show up correctly.

 

I think my current setup is quite ready, and (almost) all of the quirks that surfaced over the time have been ironed out, I will share what I have on a "use as is" basis for those interested.

 

To keep the housework to a minimum, I will try to upload a portable setup/installation, which then can be used instantly, and without additional major tweaks or (re-)programming. One would only have to set the path(s) to their library, and their audio setup accordingly.

 

I will give some further screenshots here as well, to document some of my special features, to give some hints on how - and why - these are implemented.

 

So please stay tuned and be a little patient - this may take some time ...

 

Cheers

Harald

[PewterTA]

Here's mine, I think it's customized nicely, even has the picture flipping like iTunes used to do.

 

 

Then I use FoobarCon on the Tablet.

 

This is an older photo of the FoobarCon, it's been updated, but I don't have a picture on me at this moment.

 

[BORIStheBLADE]

Wow you guys have some nice layouts. I think I might have to revisit Foobar.

[joopdewildehengelo]

Hi

 

There has been quite some interest in my Foobar skin, and I got a lot of PMs asking about to share my skin too.

 

The main "problem" would be that i won't be able to guide all through the needed extra steps in setting up Foobar to make use of some of the needed extras I've implemented - i.e. some costum tags to show up correctly.

 

I think my current setup is quite ready, and (almost) all of the quirks that surfaced over the time have been ironed out, I will share what I have on a "use as is" basis for those interested.

 

To keep the housework to a minimum, I will try to upload a portable setup/installation, which then can be used instantly, and without additional major tweaks or (re-)programming. One would only have to set the path(s) to their library, and their audio setup accordingly.

 

I will give some further screenshots here as well, to document some of my special features, to give some hints on how - and why - these are implemented.

 

So please stay tuned and be a little patient - this may take some time ...

 

Cheers

Harald

 

 

Thank you very much Harald, for your response on your post about your nice foobar layout.

I can imagine that a lot of requests is difficult to handle, especial if there will be a need of explaining a lot of things. Personaly I am not completely a null in programming and reading of the code in Darkone 4.x by tedgo I made some small changements in it as well. I hope you progress a bit and I will look back if there is already some news in this post...........

 

many thanks anyway

 

Joop

[firedog]

Here is mine, simple layout, but effective: search box, album cover display,track/album info display, bitrate display, highlights track playing:

 

 

There are thousands of UI's out there for free on the net, almost anyone can find what they want if they are willing to put some time in.