13Gigatons
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Ask him to zip his entire foobar folder in program files and send it to you.
All you will need is to unzip it and create a shortcut.
Ask him to zip his entire foobar folder in program files and send it to you.
All you will need is to unzip it and create a shortcut.
Cerb
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...or just like it too much. I'm hardly lazy; I was working on a WA3 modern skin that would have a thin row on the side with controls, and then the playlist to take as much room as possible. Then I got FB2K. All that work was already done
. Add in foo_winamp_spam, and it's basically perfect as a player. Drag & drop to playlist, multiple playlists, easy transcoding...all there.
Cerb
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But then it only works for iTunes clients. Here's something that works for anyone:
1. Right-click folder, and to go 'sharing'.
2. Select the option to share the folder. Optionally, name it.
3. Click Apply.
4. If you have 'simple file sharing' enabled, disable it so that file sharing is actually simple, like in NT4 and Win2k.
This is a Windows-wide thing, and with Samba as easy to use and advanced as it is (including GUI browsers that auto-mount in Linux distros, like smb4k), there will be no trouble getting to it.
Exactly. AFAIK, the only player than can do this properly is itunes, and that single feature is so useful that it makes me use it almost exclusively. Sure, Id rather have a more full featured player, but what it does, it does right.
Cerb
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Unless, of course, you're a purist who doesn't want things to change between players
. Sort by file path does it just right :evil:. Really, though, each one (except path, since it is exact in itself) should have submenus for the order when metadata is the same between files.If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
I wasn't baffled but I couldn't for the life of me figure out why there wasn't an easily accessible volume slider. Why would they omit that simple feature?
Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
Its actually well organized already, thank you. Foobar can sort, but itunes can filter. Simple as that. Filtering > Sorting. Sorting is so 20th century.
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
Its actually well organized already, thank you. Foobar can sort, but itunes can filter. Simple as that. Filtering > Sorting. Sorting is so 20th century.
If it were you wouldn't be complaining
Cerb
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That also gives you the same structure across machines, OSes, and players. It would be kind of nice to be able to go by date or genre every now and then, though.Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
You can make playlists based on anything; activate the columns UI & the DB, then: foobar2000 -> pref's -> components -> album list -> activate album list window -> view by (whatever).Originally posted by: Cerb
That also gives you the same structure across machines, OSes, and players. It would be kind of nice to be able to go by date or genre every now and then, though.Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
Cerb
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Does this require the columns UI to be in use?Originally posted by: Gurck
You can make playlists based on anything; activate the columns UI & the DB, then: foobar2000 -> pref's -> components -> album list -> activate album list window -> view by (whatever).Originally posted by: Cerb
That also gives you the same structure across machines, OSes, and players. It would be kind of nice to be able to go by date or genre every now and then, though.Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
i dont use modern skin... i use the classic that loads quick and is stable... buttons are clear and legible ... all i have are the basic 5 buttons, load, shuffle, loop, eq, pl, volume, and balance slider.
dont have browser shell... you dont have to dl the entire w.amp 5 suite... get the basic player... low memory and cpu usage. good stuff
Originally posted by: Gurck
You can make playlists based on anything; activate the columns UI & the DB, then: foobar2000 -> pref's -> components -> album list -> activate album list window -> view by (whatever).Originally posted by: Cerb
That also gives you the same structure across machines, OSes, and players. It would be kind of nice to be able to go by date or genre every now and then, though.Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
Of course you can, and not many people are saying that you can't.
The thing is, to do that in itunes I just click "browse"
Does that make itunes better? not necessarily.
The thing I like about itunes is that it lets you get to your music FAST...faster than anything else. I'd proudly sacrifice other features for that.
Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
That's quite an assumption there cowboi....
q]Originally posted by: Gurck
If you truly read my posts you'll see what I mean... I've never responded to an ipod thread by namecalling, making a personal attack against anyone or by stating my view on ipods without giving good reason. What more can you ask for other than me not stating my opinion (which isn't going to happen)? Without fail I get attacked for it; told that ipods are good not because of <reasons 1, 2 and 3>, but because I'm a <insert name here>, because I should "stfu", etc. I haven't changed my thesis, I've simply realized that if I call someone childish because their response to my debate points is "stfu ur dummyhed", I'll be lambasted for it due to their strerngth in numbers and have their assumption be that I'm calling them childish for liking ipods. I'd like to have more faith in the intelligence of my fellow man, especially on a tech board which should have the cream of the intellectual crop... but I've been let down
[/quote]Yeah, sure....
I felt the poster to whom I was replying was implying that it wasn't doable in foobar. As I said earlier, F3 -> type what you want will display search results in real-time. As fast as itunes, or faster if your PC is getting old or doing other things, since foobar doesn't have itunes' bloat.Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Of course you can, and not many people are saying that you can't.Originally posted by: Gurck
You can make playlists based on anything; activate the columns UI & the DB, then: foobar2000 -> pref's -> components -> album list -> activate album list window -> view by (whatever).Originally posted by: Cerb
That also gives you the same structure across machines, OSes, and players. It would be kind of nice to be able to go by date or genre every now and then, though.Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
The thing is, to do that in itunes I just click "browse"
Does that make itunes better? not necessarily.
The thing I like about itunes is that it lets you get to your music FAST...faster than anything else. I'd proudly sacrifice other features for that.
FixedOriginally posted by: Goosemaster
HAAAARRR, that be quite the assumption yer makin' thar, matey!Originally posted by: Gurck
If your collection is properly organized, rather than 4,000 files haphazardly dumped in your p2p client's download directory, foobar will sort however you want it to. No wonder so many here like itunes
Oh and Cerb, you don't have to have columns enabled to utilize playlists; you can have them tabbed in the main window like this
Cerb
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The classic loads stably, but has always had issues with Fitt's Law. It's also not all that good if you want a playlist next to it, and still want your controls. Either you give up a good bit of height, or a good bit of width. Worse still if you double size it.
...or I could just use FB2K and get all the functionality without those UI problems. I also get 90% of what I wanted, as well: a big playlist.
Aside: I need to find where I can get Vorbis 1.10 to try LAMIP.
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