Recommend me a foobar2000 layout

Craig321 · 20 Jul 2008 at 02:20

Basically I want a nice Vista-style (a nice Aero style maybe) for foobar2000.

I like my general layout at the moment (see screenshot) but the actual interface isn't the nicest. Are there any out there with a similar layout, but nicer GUI?

Craig321 · 20 Jul 2008 at 17:04

Firegod · 20 Jul 2008 at 19:12

Have you considered the CD Art Display app that works with Foobar? You run foobar as normal and it launches this other small app. I then have it so that I minimise foobar to the notification area. This just leaves the CD Art Display running. It shows the album cover, artists and song title. All in a very small space on your screen.... kind of like toast for Winamp. Looks cool, and you can set it to always be on top.

Here it is running on an old desktop screenshot I took:-

As you can see foobar is down the bottom right. It's a pretty neat application.

http://www.cdartdisplay.com/index.php?categoryid=14&p2000_sectionid=3

Craig321 · 20 Jul 2008 at 20:02

That looks really nice, I'll have to give that one a go.

Although that means it'll force me to be bothered to sort my album art out

[Edit]
What foobar version are you running? It's not working on 0.9.5.3 for me

"Unable to launch cd art display"

LeperousDust · 20 Jul 2008 at 23:04

Sort your album art out easily with music brainz picard, it'll sort out all your tagging and folder name and files too

Craig321 · 21 Jul 2008 at 01:59

LeperousDust said:
Sort your album art out easily with music brainz picard, it'll sort out all your tagging and folder name and files too

Yeah, I did that a while ago, just didn't bother with album art as I thought I'd never use it

Can't seem to get album art working in Picard at the moment.

benjo plz. · 21 Jul 2008 at 02:06

You'll need the Winamp API plugin for foobar, if you haven't already got it.

Craig321 · 21 Jul 2008 at 02:15

Managed to get CD Art Display working by using the installer instead of the foobar plugin itself. I was thinking it was purely a foobar plugin but it's a whole program that can be used with multiple media players.

Not too sure about it really, even though I have a 24" screen it'd get hidden a lot so would be fairly pointless.