What does foobar2000 do for you that no other player does?
Reply #21 – 2009-09-02 05:16:05
What foobar makes unique for me is what foobar2000 does (its functionality) and how it does that (its style), in short it is a combination of all. After some experiences with other players (e.g. Windows Media Player, Winamp, MediaMonkey, Sonique) I tried 1by1, a directory player, and then became acquainted with foobar and fell in love with it:No fear of adware, spyware, malware, no fear of user statistics which are collected in the background and send to the internet "to make the software better" (foobar monitors its media library but not me, it respects my privacy and is not interested in user behaviour) Since the day I am using it I never had a crash, beta versions included, the program is developed further continuously. A clearly structured user interface with a practical integration of functions into context menus instead of main menu items with an excessive number of entries No colourful buttons or obtrusive button images (please never change this) but elegance by means of simplicity. A highly configurable design (I don't speak of theming, but user defined columns, status bar information and so on) Instead of a tiny little player window a GUI which can be maximized (very important for me) Full tagging, converter, Media Library organizing options Great plugins which enrich foobar's value for me Possibility to get in contact with the developers of foobar or of third party plugins Very good forum here on Hydrogenaudio; I never had a question which remained unanswered. So much more... My English is not very good, for each post I need to look up most words in the dictionary but I hope it became clear how gratefully I am for this software. Music is the most important thing in my life and I do listen, organize and sometimes even produce some parts of it (Converter, Resampler, DSP and VST functions) with foobar2000. So nothing more to say than thank you.