Jon Cairns

foobar2000

foobar2000 is a DIY music player that takes some getting used to. Therefore, I created this tutorial some time ago, and have resurrected it in my new site design.

foobar2000 audio player

The tutorial is hopefully in a pretty logical order, and you will get the most out of it if you follow the sections in chronological order.

  1. What is it?
  2. Getting started
  3. Components
  4. Features
    1. Mass-tagging
    2. Playlist organisation
    3. Replaygain
    4. Keyboard shortcuts
  5. ColumnsUI
    1. Finding your way around
    2. Creating an iTunes style layout
    3. Tweaking
  6. Code syntax
  7. PanelsUI
    1. Finding your way around
    2. PanelsUI code
    3. Creating a layout

Please let me know if you find any broken links, mistakes or oddities. Unfortunately, I'm probably not going to be able to update it due to time constraints, but I hope it can still help people get started with the player.