Het volgende is langs een ander „gast blogger“ leerprogramma Skyler Huse
Foobar is een toepassing die ik iedereen zou moeten proberen heb gedacht. Het is een audiospeler die heel wat verschillende dossiertypes speelt (MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC/Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Au, SND, CDDA, WMA en meer met facultatieve componenten). Het speelt ook meer dan enkel uw muziek. Het kan liederen van CDs scheuren, liederen in veel andere formaten omzetten, kunt u de markeringen van uw liederen uitgeven, virtueel alles, en partijen meer aanpassen. En het beste ding over het is dat het minder ram wanneer vergeleken bij de meeste andere audiospelers gebruikt. Dit maakt het perfect voor het gebruiken terwijl het spelen van spelen, als u het voor niets anders gebruikt.
U kunt download Foobar hier, waar het ook van sommige eigenschappen en verbindingen onder andere aan screenshots een lijst maakt. Stel de installateur in werking tot u aan krijgt Kies Componenten doos. Zorg om te controleren ervoor Facultatieve Eigenschappen zodat u allen krijgt kunt u uit dit programma. Voel vrij om de kortere wegpictogrammen aan te passen nochtans wilt u.
Nadat u klaar bent met het installeren van het programma, stel het in werking en u zou een venster als hieronder moeten worden. Oogst welke stijl u wilt. Of verlaat het enkel zoals is, omdat ik u zal tonen hoe te om het aan te passen nochtans wilt u! U kunt altijd aan deze Snelle Opstelling teruggaan door te gaan aan Mening -> Lay-out - > en klik Snelle Opstelling.
Nu, het aanpassen, ga aan Mening -. Lay-out - > en klik Cre�ër Scratchbox. U zou een venster als hieronder moeten worden. Dit Scratchbox laat u met de interface zonder het knoeien die daadwerkelijk tot u het aan vertelt van toepassing is.
Linker klik op om het even welk grijs gebied en het venster zou hieronder moeten verschijnen. Het eerste ding u zult willen toevoegen is een splitser. Dit snijdt omhoog ruimte zodat kunt u meer elementen toevoegen. Een hoogste/bodemsplitser verdeelt het gebied u in twee gebieden, op bovenkant en op bodem klikte. Een linker/juiste splitser verdeelt het gebied u in twee gebieden, op de linkerzijde en op het recht klikt. I always get the two confused because I think it means the split line goes from left to right or up to down, but that’s not what it means.
If you use playlists, the next thing you want to place is Playlist Tabs, which lets you switch between playlists. If you’re like me and just want all your songs listed, skip the playlist tabs and add a Playlist View, which actually shows your songs. People who used the playlist tab still need a playlist view. You can stop here if you just want a really basic, no thrills interface. It will work fine. Something you will probably want to add is the Album Art Viewer and a Playback Visualization (I like Sprectrograms). Feel free to just mess around with everything. You can remove parts by right clicking on the part you want to get rid of and click Cut UI Element. When you’re done, go to Edit -> Apply Layout.
Now that you have Foobar looking how you want, you probably want to add your music, right? Go to File -> Add Folder and choose the folder with your music. One thing you need to know is, that if you change something in your music folder, you will need to remove all your songs (ctrl + a and then delete) and then add your songs back. Playing music is a simple thing, so I don’t think I need to go over how to do that. But there is still more Foobar can do! Right click on a song, this shows some more stuff you can do with Foobar, like converting, getting tags from freedb, applying replaygain, etc. Click Properties or press alt + enter, this will bring up the metadata (or tags) of your song. Foobar makes it simple and quick to edit all your metadata.
Now, select all your music by pressing ctrl + a and right click again. Hover over File Operations - Move To and Rename To are two very useful things. Move To can easily organize your music collection based on the tags, and Rename To renames all your files based on tags, although Move To can do this too.. Click on Move To. You should get a window like the one below. Select a place to move your music (I recommend your My Music folder) and click in the File Name Pattern box. This is where all the magic happens. You can enter how to arrange your music here. For example, if you want folders with different artists, you type %artist% to add folders for different albums in these folders with the artist’s name, type /%album%. Finally, type somethings like /%track% %title% to put the songs in the album folders with the track number and file name. You can also click on the button to the right of the box to use some of the presets, but I like having control over what I want to happen. Click Run when you are done. Note that you will need to rescan your music folder (File -> Add Folder) to play your newly arranged files.
But wait, there is still more! Go to File -> Preferences or just press ctrl + p. You should see something like the image below. Click the + by Display and click on Default User Interface. Here you can do a little more with Fooobar’s interface, such as applying transparency to the Window. What I want to focus on right now are the check boxes. I like to make sure Minimize To Notification Area is checked. Foobar uses the least amount of ram when minimized there. I also like to check Show Balloon Tip On Song Change. Back to the list view, it should be obvious what you can change under Colors and Fonts. Filetypes lets you choose what files automatically open with Foobar.
Ok, this is is a fairly important one, so it gets to start its own paragraph! Click on the + sign by General and click Keyboard Shortcuts. This is what makes Foobar so great for using while playing games for me. Foobar lets you set your own Global Hotkeys, which will work even when Foobar is minimized. Click on Add New. The first thing you’ll probably want is a ‘next’ button. Next is located under Main and then Playback in the action box. Click it, and then click in the key box and press the key combination you want to use (I use Windows + Right Arrow Key). Check Global Hotkey if you want to be able to change the song without switching to Foobar. Repeat this for all the hotkeys you want. I usually just add Previous (Windows + Left) and Play or Pause (Windows + Down). Make sure to click Save All when you’re done.
Someday I’ll talk more about this amazing little audio player. For now, mess around with it and enjoy!
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I only recently tried this app and it is fantastic. Previously, I used KMPlayer, which I found to be really good. However, it is nowhere near as good as foobar. I have some old music files in mp3pro format and wma format all at 64 kbps. In KMPlayer they sound OK to not so good. In foobar, they sound like 128 kbps or better. I was really surprised and happy as the files that I have are irreplaceable.
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