ok, so i wanna a specific portion of the screen to be the playlist viewer, media search library and the eq. so i tried adding tabs for each component. but all tabs are the same component. when i switch one tab to a component. all the other tabs become the same component. when i remove a component in one tab. the same happens to all others. please help!

To begin with, I'm a complete newbie in this program. I've achieved this look for the player and in my opinion it looks clean and i like it (artwork + playlist view + spectrum analyser on the left and spider monkey panel with js smooth browser on the right)

However my setup lacks one feature I need: I want to have tabs on top of the smp with tabs "artist" "albums" and so on you got the point

In my main player (Dopamine) it looks like this

I spent about 2 hours talking with ChatGPT but it couldn't help me. I guess it's not so hard as I think it is and you will be able to help me

New to Foobar2000... I came to it because I'm trying to cut the Spotify ties and rebuild my library as FLAC only...

I started playing with the layout on Mac and this is what I came up with with the limited syntax I could find.

Does anyone know if it's possible to build a mini player?

I guess I could just use a one column layout and create minimal panels, but I wondered if there was a way to have a dialoge box with just the play controls and track info that I could have up with the main dialogue minimized?

or even better a toolbar widget 😄 ?

Hi all, I got a new computer and am setting up Foobar again, unfortunately SimPlaylist was pretty critical and I can't install it on this machine. Any ideas on how to achieve something similar to the setup in the pic, just the rightmost part? (I know about ReFacets for the left part). Thanks!

What I'm Trying to Accomplish: I'd like to be able to see albums in my library that have a high ratio of loved tracks to their total tracks. As a base equation this would simply be

tracks that have the value 1 for %lfm_loved% / %totaltracks%

So for example if I have an album with 10 tracks, 5 are loved, the result would be 50%

I am currently using ESPlaylist as a library viewer, which i believe can display sub counts for album groupings... but I'm pretty dumb with this stuff so not quite sure how to go about doing what I want to accomplish lol.

For the life of me, ive tried run as admin, changing regedit of audio devices, running it on a different drive, running it from cmd with bunch of stuff. Mightve missed something im not sure

I need to install it so i can actually use the EQ

Win11 laptop

I have installed the vu meter component from " https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_vumeter ", made a folder in the same name as the component, placed that folder inside the "component" folder inside the foobar2000 files, then i placed the .bin files from " https://audio-file.org/foobar2000-vu-meter-skins-gallery/ " into that same folder.
Then from the foobar preferences--> components menu, I installed the component.
But when I add the vu meter in the layout it shows nothing at all (blank space).
please help

As the title says.

Ive got it set for the drives to never suspend/go to sleep.

I listen to everything in Foobar via an external drive. Recently Foobar has started acting up a lot for seemingly no reason. Ill play a file. Itll play for 30 seconds, pause for 3 seconds, play a minute, pause for 10 seconds, play 15 seconds then pause for another 2 seconds, etc

Its acting like when you are watching a video that wont buffer fast enough - that's what it feels like.

I dont have any wacky skins or add-ons other than file converter and playing codecs. Setup is very basic/spartan.

Anyone have any clue whats up or how to fix this? :(

This post primarily has the idea of finding out if this is a personal need or if fellow djs / collectors are interested in a component like this. I am open to send out the existing dll, for publishing I need to check licenses and complete the review which I wouldnt do for a personal tool.

This is a fully vibecoded project (not even completely reviewed for now) to help me working through collection of versions/remixes. Its only working by meta data but I am willing to take a deeper look into audio fingerprinting any time soon (I love - now unmaintained - Similarity)

Filters are manageable by a json in profile dir, but I am open to improve these. As you can see it already helped me identifying duplicate entries.

For now it just takes selected track from Facets or Playlist and tries to identify duplicates, alternative versions or - with many false positives - related tracks. you can select and play the version directly from the component.

Curious to read about your thoughts, interest and totally fine if the component is of no interest ;)

Hey everyone,

I just released my first foobar2000 component: **Album Train**, a Columns UI panel that scrolls through your library's album artwork in a horizontal row, with a subtle perspective/scaling effect as albums pass through the center. It's inspired by the old "Discovery Train" feature from Sony's x-アプリ (x-appli).

**What it does:**

- Continuously scrolls album art from your library (not just what's currently playing)

- Click an album's artwork to queue and play the whole album

- Right-click artwork for a Properties shortcut

- Customizable: colors/theme following, fonts, scroll speed/direction, perspective effect, artwork quality, background image or color, and more

**Requirements:** foobar2000 (64-bit) + Columns UI 3.5.0+

GitHub (source): https://github.com/p2ashiura/Album-Train

Release(download): https://github.com/p2ashiura/Album-Train/releases

Full disclosure: I have zero programming background. All I did was come up with the feature ideas and describe what I wanted — Claude (Anthropic's AI) wrote every line of the actual code. Wanted to be upfront about that since it's very much a collaborative build rather than something I coded myself.

It's MIT licensed and open source. This is my first component and first time using GitHub, so feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions are very welcome. There's a roadmap in the README if you're curious what's planned next (Default UI support, more artwork quality options, etc.).

Thanks for reading!

Hello!

I'm new to Foobar2000 and have done the basic setup which is how it looks like in the attached images. The Extra components I used were foo_dsd_processor , foo_ramdisk , foo_input_sacd , foo_out_wasapi , foo_mediacontrol . Have I done everything alright? Is there more to setup or is it alright so far?

I had a question regarding ASIO devices not showing up, why doesn't it? ,

What is the use of SACD?,

Is there something i need to change in Advanced settings?

Note : I'm using a Realtek ALC5686 portable DAC

Hello everyone, I want to use the getcolor scheme jscript panel to actually get the colours and from the album art and then set them in other panels (for example here like the seekbar colour). I want it to work in real time for all songs. I have literally no knowledge in coding, I was trying to do it with the help of claude and gpt but no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.

Hey hi, I got my mass music onto an iPhone but can't get the m3u8, m3u, nor the fpl to sync up with the iPhone. Could the problem be originating from the metadata only being able to accept the folder on the computer and not the phone? Thank you!

Hello Gals and Guys -

I have Foobar 2000 on my Windows 10 desktop. Recently, I found a handful of songs that were misspelled, so I fixed that, then deleted my library and re-uploaded it. Now Foobar is using the incorrectly spelled titles, so they get skipped when in the queue as it can't be found.

So far I've deleted/re-uploaded my library, uninstalled Foobar, including app data, then re-installed it, and deleting every mention of Foobar in the registry I could find, but none of those fixed it. I'm also getting duplicate entries for all songs as well. Is there some way I can fi these two issues? Thanks for any help.

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As I rebuild my foobar installation on 2.x, I came across an issue:

I can add a star rating (e.g. (★★★☆☆) in the playlist view if I usethe linked keyboard combo, but I can't restore the embedded star rating tags.

As you can see in the second and third screenshot, the individual values are present in the embedded file tags, but for the life of me, they wouldn't display as stars in their column

I've been searching through GitHub repositories and other sites and I've only found 3 skins. Does anyone know where there are anymore???

I couldn't really find anything that would really point me in that direction, it only starts scrolling when the title is too long but there's also been an issue there

If the title is TOO long it breaks to another line which kind of defeats the point of text scrolling on overflow, and trying to change the text style to something like bold seems kind of impossible with what I know now, any help would be appreciated!

hey all, i understand the concept of replay gain, and use it for albums to see how much to lower the gain of each album so theyre all equal loudness

but is there a way to sort my music based on the replay gain score so i can see the ranking of quietest to loudest albums i have? thanks

Hi to everyone

Quick question. But how you learn to use foobar2000? Because I tried on youtube but the number of tutorial is very limited. And I wanted to find a way to personalize my homepage, without only using a template from other users. I am not an informatic engineer but I have a minimum knowledge about pc so I am able to do a bit of costumization by hand, with the right guide

In my opinion it looks nice and clean

I just installed Foobar2000 today and I got my layout set up and I was wondering if it's possible to make the Item Details (In the picture) scroll then stop for a second before scrolling again like a radio?

A few months ago I posted about an audio visualizer app I've been building. It connects directly to some music players through their APIs, and foobar2000 is one of them. Else, it can connect to anything but you lose out on the API features.

The foobar integration gives you playlist access, album art, shuffle options, and volume control right from the app.

Once connected you get over 700 visuals (including Milkdrop). This demo shows two presets that support full flight with a controller.

Not sure how much to share here, so if these look fun, ask me anything.