How can foobar continue to improve?
February 25th, 2007, posted by FofR
February 25th, 2007, posted by FofR
I am of course referring to 3rd party component development. With Terrestrial’s recent developments the foobar aesthetic capabilities have increased dramatically and we are all seeing some great design ideas. But I want to ask you now, what do you think is the next step in 3rd party development? What should be the next step? What features do you feel foobar still sorely lacks?
I personally would love to have some sort of web interactivity – the ability to scrape or download information from the web, for instance a wiki entry for each artist I am listening to.
(Feel free to post some article requests in the comments also – this platform is open for anyone to make a post once they have registered here.)
February 25th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Full skin support would be cool. Terrestrial is almost there imo. I hope he continues to develop his plugin.
And I almost forgot to mention. A decent visualization would be very cool. I’d be happy with something like in Winamp.
February 25th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
You can do that with foo_run like this for instance:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=$replace(%artist%, ,+)&ie=utf-8
February 25th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
We need Open Source foobar2000. Sorry for offtop. But we really need it.
February 26th, 2007 at 2:49 am
I think one of the only things foobar is lacking is any (other than ipods) portable device support,
apart from that, dont change it too much, its good
February 26th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
We need third-party plugin for monitoring the folders in the Media Library, and updating it as the content changes. It’s a pain to rescan the whole library after I rename a single folder.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Definitely some way to at least check all of your components for updates, if not automatically install them.
February 27th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
1. full skin support
2. i think the future of audio players is songbird
songbirdnest.com
it will solve all the problems mentioned here
February 28th, 2007 at 12:19 am
As Darko said, dynamic monitoring of your library would be great.
But my numero uno wish is for VST plugin support.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Id really like to see transparency support for the playlist and other panels. Right now i have 1 huge image for the background and it would look much better if my play list blended in with it.
March 15th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Songbird looks nice, but sorry to say it, at first look it seems a iTunes ripoff, just hope they make it better.
I don’t use iTunes as an audio player, its too damn big, and to be honest with foobar its perfect size for any screen.
foobar new features?
Embedded mp3tag cover support.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:04 am
Greater interaction with services like last.fm would be cool.
The next step is to get recognised by big vendors more. However winamp didn’t do that very well at all and that has a huge userbase.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:05 am
And also opensource would be a godsend.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:56 am
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April 2nd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
A better irc plugin, AMIP is ok but doesn’t function as well as Media Displayer.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
can play video and DVD