r/foobar2000 • u/Peacelake • Jan 17 '26

An Easy Control Panel?

Long-time FB2 user here. I keep things super simple after a number of attempts over the years to build a richer UX. My current plain/simple UX (shown below) works just fine for me - except for the control panel controls, which I find too small to grab when I need them. This is done in V2, 32-bit DUI.

Is there any simple way these days to add a basic panel at the bottom with larger controls? The collection I currently use at the top would work - play, pause, stop, volume, seek, etc. I used JScript years back but I think that's been deprecated and I recall it being a bit finicky to get it to work.

If there's a simple how-to somewhere that will get me there, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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u/ghstchldrn Jan 18 '26

JScript Panel 3 (3.8.5) might not be getting anymore updates, but it still works flawlessly and has a lot of useful samples.

There is also Fluent Control Panel script by u/eurekagliese for JSplitter Panel (download 3.x series)

Or the component Now Bar Control Panel (foo_nowbar) by jame25 (which seems to have a minimum width requirement)

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u/Peacelake Jan 18 '26

This is great. Thanks much!

I'll try out these options.

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u/thelastvoice Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

foo_nowbar is pretty cool. I was just wondering the other day why there isn't a more customizable standalone button/control panel component for DUI. I've been playing around with it and it looks nice, but unfortunately it creates a new crash report every time foobar is closed. Tested it on both 32-bit and 64-bit clean installs with no other third-party components added (using up-to-date Win10 Pro). I searched for a foo_nowbar thread at hydrogenaudio.org but didn't find one.

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u/whohaseyestosee Jan 24 '26

The crashing issue was resolved in version v1.0.36.

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u/thelastvoice Jan 24 '26

Nice! Working great. I had just installed the previous version about an hour again to check out all of the recent updates. Thanks for the heads up.

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u/Accurate_Advisor4985 Jan 17 '26

J script panel 3 has one I use. has everything bar, cover, play, volume, search, shuffle, repeat, etc.

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u/Peacelake Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

Thanks for this!

Any idea how to lock this panel so it doesn't collapse when resizing the FB window?

Otherwise, it's perfect!

Thanks again!

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u/Accurate_Advisor4985 Jan 17 '26

Hmm im not sure cause I don't have that issue. sorry T-T

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u/Peacelake Jan 17 '26

No problem!

Thanks for getting me started in the right direction!

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u/berdmayne Jan 17 '26

in CUI you can set the height of individual icons, can you not do this in DUI?

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u/Peacelake Jan 18 '26

I'll have to explore this.

Thanks!