Just a quick update to say that the foobar2000 tutorial is back up again, and has a whole new set of links. Please let me know if you find any broken links or problems in general - I haven't been through it with a fine tooth comb yet.
In the last section of this PanelsUI tutorial we'll go through creating a layout, step-by-step. It would help to have an understanding of PanelsUI code syntax, so check the previous page if you don't.
This section goes through the extra, panelsUI specific code. It's not exhaustive, but provides enough to be able to create decent layouts, and to gain a general understanding of how it works.
This section of the PanelsUI tutorial takes you through the basics of the preferences, and tells you how to make simple changes to the colour scheme.
This guide is broken into three parts:
This section goes through the syntax of foobar's in-program code. It will allow you to pick up the fundamentals, and hopefully start writing code of your own.
This section involves the use of in-program code to make tweaks to the appearance and functionality of your foobar.
This section of the ColumnsUI tutorial involves creating a basic itunes-style layout, then a more advanced version.
Welcome to the world of ColumnsUI. This section will go through the basics, such as finding your way through the preferences, and creating a simple layout.
This guide is broken into three parts:
In this part of the features section, keyboard shortcuts will be explained. You can create a keyboard shortcut for just about everything in foobar2000, making it a very powerful tool.
Replaygain is used to normalise sound levels across your music collection. This section shows you how.
There are so many things you can do with foobar. I can't possibly go through all of them here, but the important thing is to get you knowing enough about the program that you can discover things for yourself. Here I've just given the basics of mass-tagging, playlist organisation, replaygain and assigning keyboard shortcuts, but it is by no means exhaustive.
This section goes through the basic functions of the music player, and introduces the concepts of components and interfaces.
Foobar2000 is a music player and organiser, like iTunes or winamp. It is totally free of charge (unless you hold to the time equals money cliché), but most importantly it is totally customisable. It can have as little or as much impact on your system's processes as you choose, and you can change absolutely anything about its appearance, giving it the edge on other players. It can play any audio codec as long as the plugin exists, and has superior sound quality. It also allows for keyboard shortcut assignment to practically every function in the entire program. One of the main features of the program is its ability to organise your music via "tagz", downloading track information from web databases in bulk. There is also a feature that will standardise the decibel output of your tracks, and store information in the track so that you can have all of your music at the same volume. If any of this is catching your attention, check it out at the following link: