Since many , if not most of us use Foobar as their primary music player, why don’t we share screenshots and configuration settings in this thread?
I would have started with mine but am at work so will do it from home tonight
Here is a thread already started by Quad Master 
well no one is updating that thread… so I guess if someone wants to post more foorbar skins ( with tuts please :P)… can do it here nah?? (unless mods wanna merge this thread with the other one)
well…my foobar looks like this:
http://www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/5895/3.JPG
Ive customized it using fofr 0.9.
http://www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/5907/foo.jpg
I dont want looks- usablity will do fine 
PS: colours seem screwed up. they’re a much better blue
@audiophile2rock
awesole looking skin! Any guide on how to do that?
Haven’t ppl progressed beyond mere players to media managers by now !
..guess not 
Talking of simplicity and usability, beat mine ..itoons ishtyle
http://www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/5908/foobar.JPG
I tried a couple o rather jazzy looking ishtyles using panel_UI but fell back to the simple but highly usable setups you can create with columns_ui
Greenie, do yourself a favor and add the search toolbar plugin
coz there ain’t a single half decent media manager available
Greenie, do yourself a favor and add the search toolbar plugin
i used to, but adding the network drives to the media library takes forever. Its there on my other PC
Au contraire, my friend
How’s it any better or different than a well configured Foobar?
i used to, but adding the network drives to the media library takes forever. Its there on my other PC
I have my entire music library on 2 NAS drives
It may not be as large as yours but isntt small either at around 60GB+
It took perhaps 30 minutes for a 1 time addition to the media library but that was about it
Search/playback now happens instantly like a local drive
@audiophile2rock
awesole looking skin! Any guide on how to do that?
Thanx dude!
Check out this guide posted at foobar blog.
Its pretty simple…just make sure that you put all the components in required
folders only.
Lemme know if you get it right and if you don’t… I’ll be glad to assist.
A well configured FB2k, what is that ?
..has all the settings you want and nothing more. Is resource light and does what its setup to do, just play!
Once its configured you leave it as is.
What about organisation, management & ease of use ?
FB2K is a player, period !, a light, good player, it has mgmt capability but no where close to what i suggested.
Bottom line: if you got less than a few thousand files, stick with what you got, almost any player will get the job done. Cos that’s all you need, a player.
otherwise…
MJ or the pay versoin ( MC) is what you graduate to when FB2k/winamp/itunes/WMP don’t cut it anymore ie very good with LARGE collections. That i would say is the main reason you need to look for something better. The hierachical file explorer view breaks down and panes is much more scalable. You can do panes in FB2K but its no way as easy and therefore usable. Tagging is a breeze here and you are not forced to store anything in the files, everything can be stored just in the app’s library.
Finding what you want, when you want
MJ’s not as resource light as FB2k, but it’s database is faster i think than FB2k. There is certainly an initial learning curve but its no where as steep as FB2K’s.
I still don’t see how MJ or MC is any different
I’m quite happy with the explorer panel. if i dont know where it is , quicksearch does fine
I dont use tagging/rating etc, and a never really felt the need for a music library ( felt that the ones in most media players were a bloat)
Fb2K’s DB is holding up fine for over 10K titles for me
Tag search still has sub second responses
I am guessing you never configured your implementation properly
Though if MB/MC/whatever is what keeps you happy and content, I guess there really isnt a need for you to bother with fb2k
10k titles, as in files ? or albums which would mean 10 times as many files
upto 10k files, any player will suffice, 100k however or more..not many will.
That’s one of the main requirements i have, no point listening if you can’t remember what you thought few months later, you spend the time to listen anyway.
I’m anal with tags, got to be correct, who, when, which label etc.
here is mine…
http://www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/5927/foo.JPG
anyway to get embedded album art in the album art pane?