Foobar2000 alternative

[Psqad]

i miss Foobar as well, the great thing about foobar is letting adress my emu-soundcard(plugged-in to my hifi) directly without windows interference with it and keep my onboard-soundcard(desktop speakers) for windows sounds simultaneously
anyone experience with that?
my search continuous ...

[offtopic] great forum as it is now my knowledge base [/offtopic]

[Djzn.BR]

We could start a petition to Peter Palowski. "Please port foobar2000 to Linux". I know he doesn't want to port it, has no interest at all. But with the majority of Linux converts growing each day and the lack of a satisfactory audio player, he may change his mind.

Actually I would even PAY for a foobar2000-linux native. Seriously.

From all audio players I have tested on linux, no one has ever come close to fb2k in terms of being a straight forward swiss-knife tool.

Perhaps JavaTunes will get there... one day.

[foobnix]

foobnix is good choose on linux instead foobar2000.

[cascade9]

foobnix....loks at least interesting, but I hate it when I find .deb packages that dont work on debian. Maybe they should rename those packages 'udeb' or something.

Maybe I'm stuffing up that, I should try it again tomorrow. To much hardware work today, and my brain is broken.

We could start a petition to Peter Palowski. "Please port foobar2000 to Linux". I know he doesn't want to port it, has no interest at all. But with the majority of Linux converts growing each day and the lack of a satisfactory audio player, he may change his mind.

Actually I would even PAY for a foobar2000-linux native. Seriously.

From all audio players I have tested on linux, no one has ever come close to fb2k in terms of being a straight forward swiss-knife tool.

Perhaps JavaTunes will get there... one day.

I think there was a 'please port foobar to linux' thread on hydrogenaudio, and Peter Palowski basicly said "not a snowballs in hell" (IIRC, its programmed on visual c++, and porting to linux would be a PITA).

I'd consider paying for a linux foobar version....except that I'm already using a version thats conisdered pretty old (0.9.4). Single Column Playlist wont work in the later versions.

Personaly, I dont even want a foobar port because of the many 'swiss army knife' tools (like transcoding). I like it because I can make foobar look _exactly_ how I want it to look.....and I've never seen a linux native player that will give me anywhere near the same control over appearance, layout, etc as foobar does.

[damnated]

DeaDBeeF has some of foobar's functionality, like full cue file support, or ape playability, and looks like foobar too, to some extent, although AFAIK it's not skinnable, only basic colors can be changed. But at least it's open source so there's a chance it will be a great player in the future.

[Redsandro]

Hi, I was gonna open a topic about this, but this one is exactly that. So here's a little kick.

Any new opinions on foobar2000 alternatives?

I don't like Quod Libet, Amarok, Banshee or Exaile. And I hate the likes of XMMS and Audacious.

I've used foobar2000 through wine for a long time because it's the best player on the planet, but I was hoping to get something more native.

Rhythmbox is kinda nice because it's so integrated with Ubuntu and has plenty of development. But it's just playback, two universes away from foobar2000 in every other field.

So now I listen with Rhythmbox and I 'manage' (tag/rename/etc) with foobar, but I have this annoying feeling that Rhythmbox runs on a virtual machine or something because on my very much older Pentium 3 that acts as a jukebox, foobar is still lightningfast but Rhythmbox chokes left and right on the same big lists of music.

[DoktorSeven]

The above-mentioned DeaDBeeF is nice and Foobar-like.

[gtzam]

DeadBeef is also my choice due to excellent cue sheet support and low resources usage.

[Redsandro]

I recognize the screenshots and the name, I think I've already tried it. But I cannot remember what was the problem for me. Was it the player with the separate component for playback itself?

I also tried Ario, looks nice but I had a frustrating user experience. Audio players are supposed to be somewhat intuitive and 'just work' but I couldn't get this one to import my music. It shouldn't be a hard task.

BTW gotta love that Jamendo component in Rhythmbox!

[DoktorSeven]

I recognize the screenshots and the name, I think I've already tried it. But I cannot remember what was the problem for me. Was it the player with the separate component for playback itself?

You're probably thinking of mpd or xmms2, both of which run in the background and use clients to connect to them. DeaDBeeF is a standard audio player.