Hur man ställer in och skräddarsy foobar - en avancerad ljudsignalspelare för Windows

vid Skyler Huse Oktober 16, 2008

Windows

Är efter en annan ”gästblogger” tutorial by Skyler Huse

Foobar är en funderare för applikation I alla, bör försök. Det är en ljudsignalspelare som leker olika filtyper för en radda (MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC/Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA och mer med valfria delar). Det gör också mer leker än precis din musik. Det kan riva sönder songs från CDs, omvänden som songs till många annan formaterar, dig kan redigera märker av dina songs, skräddarsy faktiskt allt och lott mer. Och det bäst tinget om det är att det använder mindre rammar när det jämförs till mest andra ljudsignalspelare. Detta gör det att göra perfekt för att använda stunder som leker lekar, om du använder det för ingenting annars.

Du kan nedladdning Foobar här, var det listar några särdrag och anknyter också till screenshots bland annat. Kör montören, tills du får till Välj delar boxas. Se till att kontrollera Valfria särdrag så att du får alla, kan du ut ur detta program. Känselförnimmelse fritt som skräddarsy genvägsymbolerna, emellertid som du önskar.


klicka för att förstora

Kör det, efter du har avslutat sig installation programet, och du bör få en fönsternågot liknande den nedanför. Välj, vilkendera utformar dig önskar. Eller rättvisa tjänstledighetar önskar det som är, därför att jag ska show dig hur man skräddarsy den emellertid dig! Du kan alltid gå tillbaka till denna ömt ställe ställer in, genom att gå till Beskåda -> Orientering - > och klicka Ömt ställe ställer in.


klicka för att förstora

Gå till, nu att skräddarsy det Beskåda -. Orientering - > och klicka Skapa Scratchbox. Du bör få en fönsternågot liknande den nedanför. Denna Scratchbox låter dig röra med ha kontakt utan den som applicerar faktiskt, tills du berättar den till.

Lämnat klicka på något grå färgområde, och det nedanföra fönstret bör poppa upp. Det första tinget som du ska önskar att tillfoga är en delare. Detta klipper upp utrymme, så du kan tillfoga mer beståndsdelar. En bästa/nedersta delare delar området som du klickade in i två områden, ett överst och ett på botten. Lämnad/delaren delar rätt området som du klickar in i två områden, ett på lämnat och ett på rätten. 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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Someday I’ll talk more about this amazing little audio player. For now, mess around with it and enjoy!

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    1 Peter Gadd 10.16.08 at 6:16 am

    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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