I finally broke down and tried this all seeing, all knowing foobar. First impressions.. It is the suck.
WMP does so much for me, automatically..
I've got one of those nice "multimedia keyboards" with back, forward, stop, play, pause buttons. They all work in WMP even if it's MINIMIZED
However.. Foobar, they don't. I have to actually BE in the foobar window [kinda sucks when I'm playing music while playing a game, etc..]
No "sort by artist" features are evident in foobar
randomize doesn't randomize, as in if I hit "shuffle" in wmp and hit 'next' i'll get a random track. - If I hit next in foobar, I get .. 2 tracks ahead (not next track--?)
I've got to RANDOM SORT my playlist to get randomization. WMP actually does RANDOM from a "SORTED" playlist.
[this is helpful, cause if I want to stop my randomizing, and decide I want to hear "fine again" by seether, I can just go to SEETHER in the list, and click on "fine again"
in foobar, I have to either re-sort to "alphabetical order" or scan through all 18,000 mp3's I have.
While I like minimalism as much as the next guy.. what, no visualizations? Windows 3.1 GUI? I feel like i'm in program manager or notepad.
When I go to preferences to "Core->Keyboard Shortcuts" - and click ADD [i.e. I want to add a keyboard shortcut...] NOTHING happens.
I see *no* way to change what a key does.. - I mean, I see what should work, but it doesn't.
System info
WinXpPro
foobar 0.8.3 from www.foobar2000.org
Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard v 1.0A on PS2
Trying to think of what could be the 'problem' -- But.. I mean, seriously guys..
This *all* works in WMP. Which also has the ability to learn my favorite songs, make
auto-playlists. Let me pick music by genre, year, artist, .. all "out of box" -- where is this
in foobar?
How is foobar superior? Foobar's sitting here taking 45mb in memory and wmplayer is taking 12.9mb.
WMP does so much for me, automatically..
I've got one of those nice "multimedia keyboards" with back, forward, stop, play, pause buttons. They all work in WMP even if it's MINIMIZED
However.. Foobar, they don't. I have to actually BE in the foobar window [kinda sucks when I'm playing music while playing a game, etc..]
No "sort by artist" features are evident in foobar
randomize doesn't randomize, as in if I hit "shuffle" in wmp and hit 'next' i'll get a random track. - If I hit next in foobar, I get .. 2 tracks ahead (not next track--?)
I've got to RANDOM SORT my playlist to get randomization. WMP actually does RANDOM from a "SORTED" playlist.
[this is helpful, cause if I want to stop my randomizing, and decide I want to hear "fine again" by seether, I can just go to SEETHER in the list, and click on "fine again"
in foobar, I have to either re-sort to "alphabetical order" or scan through all 18,000 mp3's I have.
While I like minimalism as much as the next guy.. what, no visualizations? Windows 3.1 GUI? I feel like i'm in program manager or notepad.
When I go to preferences to "Core->Keyboard Shortcuts" - and click ADD [i.e. I want to add a keyboard shortcut...] NOTHING happens.
I see *no* way to change what a key does.. - I mean, I see what should work, but it doesn't.
System info
WinXpPro
foobar 0.8.3 from www.foobar2000.org
Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard v 1.0A on PS2
Trying to think of what could be the 'problem' -- But.. I mean, seriously guys..
This *all* works in WMP. Which also has the ability to learn my favorite songs, make
auto-playlists. Let me pick music by genre, year, artist, .. all "out of box" -- where is this
in foobar?
How is foobar superior? Foobar's sitting here taking 45mb in memory and wmplayer is taking 12.9mb.