My foobar setup ================================================================================ [IMAGE: https://blog.omgmog.net/images/2006-09/mog_foo.png] After the great response to screenshots of my foobar setup, I have decided to post how to make you foobar look just like, or similar to, my foobar setup. Keep reading to find out how. Misc * Foobar 2000 (latest version as of writing is 0.9.4) - here (http://foobar2000.org/) * Luna element visual style - here (http://lunaelement.net) or here (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29511577/) (deviantART) Plugins * Columns UI (foo_ui_columns.dll) - here (http://music.morbo.org/components.php) * Trackinfo Mod (foo_uie_trackinfo_mod.dll) - here (http://users.bowie-cass.com/singa/) * Single Column Playlist (foo_uie_single_column_playlist.dll) - here (http://users.bowie-cass.com/singa/) * Foo Custom Info (foo_custominfo.dll) - here (http://users.tkk.fi/~tahlberg/foo/) Resources used The config started off as a mixture of images ripped from windows media player 11, and images created from scratch in photoshop. em3 from neowin.net was interested in the original images and code, so i uploaded them for him and anybody else visiting neowin.net to use, and he made his own variation from them. I then adapted his images, and foo_uie_trackinfo_mod code to create my layout, while at the same time creating a new foo_uie_single_column_playlist config. download the file below for all of the resources needed to achieve this foobar setup. * mog.fm.zip now extract this file to wherever your foobar2000.cfg file resides. if you selected “enable per-user settings” during install, then this will be “%appadata%\foobar2000*”. if you didn’t select “enable per-user settings” during install, like the following screenshot then this will be wherever you installed foobar to, by default this is “%programfiles%\foobar2000*”. Unable to recover the image :( Any plugins you downloaded for foobar are going to have to go into “%programfiles%\foobar2000\components”. i’ve heard of people having problems getting images to show with foo_uie_trackinfo_mod if they haven’t got the latest version of .net installed. if you have any problems you can either install .net from windowsupdate.com (http://windowsupdate.com) or get the visual c++ 2005 runtime files (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en). Layout Open the foobar preferences dialogue (ctrl+p) and navigate your way to: Display > Columns UI and activate the “layout tab”, now you’re going to need to begin inserting the various panels and things (plugins) that you just installed. Right click on the object in the big white box, and from the menu that appears you can insert the panels and toolbars. you will need to have your layout setup like this: Unable to recover the image :( Once you’ve done that, you might want to activate the “main” tab, and untick “show toolbars”. Now that you’ve setup the panel and toolbar placement, you can begin resizing and locking the panels into place, and turning off the headings. Trackinfo mod After that is done you will need to right click on your “trackinfo mod” panel, go to settings and then paste the code from the following file: * foo_uie_trackinfo_mod code While you’re there, set the padding (both vertical and horizontal) to 0, and the edge style to “none”, then set the background color the same as the “3d objects” colour of your current visual style. If you’re using luna element blue, then this will be r-236,g-233,b-216. After that is done, if you put the images and things in the right place, you should now have a nice looking trackinfo_mod panel complete with images, and all that jazz. Single Column Playlist The default setup for foo_uie_single_column_playlist is pretty ugly to begin with, so lets remedy that.. right click anywhere on the playlist, and select “settings”. To begin with, set the row height to “20”, Edge style to “none”, background colour (as with the trackinfo_mod panel) to the “3d objects” color of your current visual style, and then set the font to “tahoma” at size 8. I’m not sure if it’s a bug or not, but with this plugin you need to restart foobar after changing the row height, for it to apply. for the code to go in each of the boxes, i’ve prepared the following text files, just paste the contents of them into their corresponding boxes: * foo_uie_single_column_playlist-group_by * foo_uie_single_column_playlist-item_display * foo_uie_single_column_playlist-group_display Buttons and things For the playback control buttons, i’m using my “no-hue” icon set.. because i’m too lazy to update their page here on my website, i’m linking to my post with them on the hydrogenaudio forums - here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=35270&view=findpost&p=379941) For the rating buttons, if you look in the “mog.fm” folder that you extracted to your foobar2000 folder, you will see a file called “em3_rating_stars.fcb”. an fcb file is basically a way to redistribute button setups, for foobar. Right click the second set of buttons in your layout (the ones on their own), and click “customise”. at the bottom of the window that opens up, click “tools”, then “load from file” and find “em3_rating_stars.fcb”. once that is loaded, you can just hit ok, and the buttons should be loaded. if you have any problems with buttons not showing, you might be missing the libpng and zlib dll’s. you can get them here: * libpngzlib.rar just extract that archive to your foobar2000 directory, so that the two files are in the same place as your foobar2000.exe and you should be sorted, after doing that you will need to restart foobar. This guide is still work in progress, and you betcha i’ve written it badly.. squeezing it in between chem-lab writeups, and other nonsensical college work, i’m not too bothered with spelling/grammar/punctuation, and i don’t suppose you will be either.. but if you have any problems just leave a comment, and remember to leave your e-mail address, and i’m sure i can help you. Thanks and reference: * em3 - lunaelement.net (http://lunaelement.net) * the “foobar2000 manual” - http://eolindel.free.fr/foobar0.9/index.shtml * the hydrogenaudio wiki - http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Titleformat_Reference * neowin.net “foobar2000 customization topic” - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=175690 ================================================================================ Published September 26, 2006 Generated from the original post: https://blog.omgmog.net/post/my-foobar-setup/ Max Glenister is an interface designer and senior full-stack developer from Oxfordshire. He writes mostly about front-end development and technology. - Mastodon: https://indieweb.social/@omgmog - Github: https://github.com/omgmog - Reddit: https://reddit.com/u/omgmog - Discord: https://discordapp.com/users/omgmog#6206