Now playing plugin for Foobar

[Comdriver]

Somebody knows a foobar2000 now playing component for AO?
can't find any ><


edit:
so you can get simple now playing component here:
http://skipyrich.com/wiki/Foobar2000:Now_Playing_Simple
ty Otinsainpas

and use this script there:
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...6&postcount=12

[Marijke]

I have never heard of this player :S but WTB a plugin for WMP.

[Otinsainpas]

i dont know much about ao-plugins for musicplayers, but there has always been different kind of file-dump addons for every "sophisticated" players.

you could search for option to find plugin that can print formatted string every time track changes and direct it to d:/anarchy online/scripts/np .
format could be anyhing from "/say NP: %track%" to complex window popups.

cant help more since i'm not familiar with that player, but i hope you find your solution

[jorricane]

Foobar2000 is probably the best low overhead music player out there, I'm always surprised that more people haven't heard of it. And from my experience, it is the most transparent in terms of audio quality that I've heard (WMP and Winamp both seem to use a subtle EQ curve that makes stuff biased in the pop/rock direction on decent speakers). A now playing plugin for it would be a real boon imo.

[Otinsainpas]

http://skipyrich.com/wiki/Foobar2000:Now_Playing_Simple

i found this.. i hope its working

[Esssch]

I discovered something useful today. When using Mumble/Foobar2000 together, when someone talks on Mumble, Foobar2000 gets turned down, then turned back up when they're done talking. Pure <3

[-LL-]

foobar2000 is just awesome

[Mastablasta]

There's a "Now playing" plugin for AO for Winamp. I don't notice any difference at all when doing listening comparisons between Winamp and foobar2000. Also, Foobar2000 doesn't really do what I want from Winamp, so I don't see any reason to use it.

[Esssch]

Foobar is MUCH lighter on resources than Winamp. Foobar also plays literally every file I throw at it (idk how Winamp is on this part though, tbh)

[Otinsainpas]

Foobar is MUCH lighter on resources than Winamp. Foobar also plays literally every file I throw at it (idk how Winamp is on this part though, tbh)

i use MPD to play music.. i think it might be even lighter than foobar2000..

and for files that are not known by that player, i dont even care to search another player


i remember the time when opening a text file makes your music pause for a second...so i don't really care about performance of musicplayers on modern computers, as long it doesn't jam my pc completely

[Comdriver]

http://skipyrich.com/wiki/Foobar2000:Now_Playing_Simple

i found this.. i hope its working

great! it is working! ty for this link. looks I was looking in wrong direction.
now I'm working on AO script for this, I'll put it here later.

the only last problem is previous tracks. I don't know if it is possible to store this list anywhere..

I don't notice any difference at all when doing listening comparisons between Winamp and foobar2000. Also, Foobar2000 doesn't really do what I want from Winamp, so I don't see any reason to use it.

for me foobar is like Firefox and winamp may be like Opera.. idk =) both working good, but it is about personal preferences.

[Comdriver]

so now I'm ended with this script:

<font color='#FFFF00'>'['<font color='#00FF00'>
$if(%isplaying%,
$if(%ispaused%,
Paused
,
Now playing
)
: </font>%artist% - 
<a href="text://<font color='#FFFF00'>
::::: Foobar2000 now playing component :::::
</font><br><br>
<font color='#00FF00'>
<a href=''chatcmd:///start http://www.last.fm/music/
$replace(%artist%, ,+)
''>%artist%</a> - %title% '['%length%']'</font><br>
<font color='#00FFFF'>
[Album: 
<a href=''chatcmd:///start http://www.last.fm/music/
$replace(%artist%, ,+)
/
$replace(%album%, ,+)
''>%album%</a>
<br>][%date% <br>]
Track number: %tracknumber% [ / totaltracks%]<br>
[Disc: %discnumber% / [%totaldiscs%]<br>]
%codec%[ / %bitrate%][ / %channels%]</font>">%title%</a>']'</font>
,
stopped
)

you should put it in "Formatting string" section of this foobar component, put path to scripts folder and script name in filename section.
after this you'll get auto generated script like this in your ao script folder:

<font color=#FFFF00>[<font color=#00FF00>Now playing: </font>Android Lust - <a href="text://<font color=#FFFF00>: : : : : Foobar2000 now playing component : : : : :</font><br><br><font color=#00FF00><a href='chatcmd:///start http://www.last.fm/music/Android+Lust'>Android Lust</a> - Another Void (Wasp Queen) [5:02]</font><br><font color=#00FFFF>Album: <a href='chatcmd:///start http://www.last.fm/music/Android+Lust/Stripped+&+Stitched'>Stripped & Stitched</a><br>2006 <br>Track number: 01<br>Disc: 1 / 1<br>AAC / 126 / stereo</font>">Another Void (Wasp Queen)</a>]</font>

it contains links too last.fm for artist and album, but I hadn't checked them because have no running copy of AO atm.

[Otinsainpas]

great! it is working! ty for this link.

Always happy to help

[Mastablasta]

Foobar is MUCH lighter on resources than Winamp. Foobar also plays literally every file I throw at it (idk how Winamp is on this part though, tbh)

What resources in this modern day and age who cares about whether or not something uses 20 or 30mb RAM while running And Winamp uses codecs, it plays everything. And Foobar still doesn't do the things that make Winamp great :|

[Esssch]

What resources in this modern day and age who cares about whether or not something uses 20 or 30mb RAM while running And Winamp uses codecs, it plays everything. And Foobar still doesn't do the things that make Winamp great :|

I only have 3gb of ram, so uh...I do? And I'm 100% sure I'm not the only person. It's nice having a playlist of 30gb worth of music, and yet having foobar only take 32mb of ram.

Like I said, I didn't know about Winamp's ability to play files. Feel free to tell us what makes Winamp great though, you might get people to switch.

[jorricane]

He may be referring to the library functions and visualizations. Which I don't use, and only contribute to WinAmp's current trend of becoming more bloatware than actual media player with each and every update. But Masta has a point - PCs have so much resources available at this point media players are really just down to personal preference. Plus WinAmp loads a tad slower, and WinAmp Agent uses more resources than it has a right to IMHO.

[Zandibel]

I only have 3gb of ram

I use winamp on my crappy home pc with 900ish mb of ram, with a 20k+ track playlist and never notice any significant impact on overall system performance.
3gb of ram is more than enough for what the majority of users would throw at their pc, unless of course you like to have 100 copies of internet explorer with your 4 copies of AO open.

Using foobar because it is resource light is no reason to use it. Using it because its what the people on head-fi tell you to is.

[Esssch]

I use winamp on my crappy home pc with 900ish mb of ram, with a 20k+ track playlist and never notice any significant impact on overall system performance.
3gb of ram is more than enough for what the majority of users would throw at their pc, unless of course you like to have 100 copies of internet explorer with your 4 copies of AO open.

Using foobar because it is resource light is no reason to use it. Using it because its what the people on head-fi tell you to is.

ew internet explorer i usually have a few tabs of firefox open, usually dual-logged on AO, either either foobar running in the background or windows media on my other monitor.

Using foobar because it's resource light is a reason to use it. Last I checked, you can't tell me what my reasons are.

[MartekO]

I'll have to look at foobar closely and compare to my years-long "lightweight and portable" favorite, CoolPlayer:

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

One of the main reason I like Cool Player, besides the light use of system and resources, and portability, is that one of the skins makes it a nice tiny bar I can usually find an unobtrusive spot for someplace on my crowded monitor screen.

[HereifixeditFrzn]

This is the reason I use foobar: http://www.foobar2000.org/components..._softplaylists