Why use anything else? Are streamfags just retarded?

foobar sucks.

AIMP is the GOAT for windows.

And private trackers>soulseek

Because slsk doesn't have everything, is filled with lossy sourced transcodes and can be slow as shit sometimes.

>>68912238
Not unless you download from verified what.cd users/scene collectors/people who rip their personal library.

>>68912285
Good luck uploading half of your PC before you can actually download what you want.

>>68912212
been using foobar for many years
all other players seem unnecessarily complex now

>>68912437
>uploading half of your PC
what

>>68912477
Half of your music collection?

>>68912437
>>68912516
lmao, the trick is to just make up a handle like "FunkadelicChick" or "ComusFanMelanie" or some shit, most slsk uploaders are hella thirsty

Sharing your music folder literally takes one second. Did you even use slsk?

rutracker

>>68912212
Agreed. But I'm not a microcuck so my gentleman's set is alternative but the same: Nicotine+ and DeadBeef.

>>68912551
Good only if you are mainstream listener. Slsks has deep rare shit rutracked doesn't have.

>>68912212
MusicBee and Soulseek*

>>68912608
Not him but this is bullshit anon

>>68912608
All three (slsk, what.cd, rutracker) have shit the other doesn't have.

>>68912437
I had no problems like this. Just use the search, you dont need to bother interacting with other users that way.

>>68912717
>>68912708

Ok search for Russel Haswell, as an example, both rutracker and slsk and compare results.

>>68912835
I was talking about what.cd. I know that no actual interaction is required on Soulseek.

>>68912638
You know it, brah.

>>68912212
I use MusicBee, I like it more than foobar

>>68913619
I do too. Is there any reason to use foobar instead of MusicBee?

>>68912212
>Qt
>not GTK+
Kill yourself

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>>68913781
1) Code optimization i.e. Less bloat

>>68913814
as far as I know, Slsk gtk+ doesn't exist. Anyway Qt is more superior to GTK+

>>68913829
I mean, yeah, sure, I can't deny that foobar is well optimized but MusicBee doesn't use more than 30 MB of RAM while running and the installation is very lightweight too.

>>68913829
The fact that you posted that shows that you have no idea what optimization means, and bloat is a worthless term on any modern system starting from goddamn ipads

>>68912212
Are you? Why do you enjoy tagging, renaming, downloading, being cut off halfway through a download, finding album art, sorting, when you can just search and click in Spotify? Use Soulseek just for rare obscure sekrit klub shit. A tenner a month is disposable cash if you're not a pov.

>>68913872
>bloat is a worthless term
said who?

>>68913851
Http://nicotine-plus.sourceforge.net/

>>68913971
Doesn't work on Windows 10. They're too lazy to update it.

>>68913900
>Why do you enjoy tagging, renaming, downloading, being cut off halfway through a download, finding album art, sorting
Things that never happen?
You're borderline retarded if you're downloading untagged folders, I have to tag a folder myself once in a blue moon.

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>>68913900
1. I let MusicBrainz do most of those things for me.
2. Even if I wouldn't, it sounds a lot more enjoyable than waiting for tons of artists/albums to even show up on streaming services at all.

Daily reminder that streamingfags pay money/watch ads to listen to their music.

>>68914067
lol shit is untagged and without album art on there all the time. Not to mention it has errors in the middle of songs sometimes because faggots have scratched cds and can't rip properly. Fuck network you using?

>>68912212
Foobar+Youtube component > Spotify

>>68914103
Disposable cash lol who can't afford a tenner a month?

>>68914157
Spotify has shitty audio quality, I'm not an audiophile by any means but Spotify streams are overcompressed garbage and it's hard to listen to.

>>68913971
Yeah but that's 3rd party client

>>68914320
So does Soulseek at times.

>>68912608
You can find most obscure shit on blogs and stuff if you look hard enough

>>68914411
So download flac and not personal rips?
Are you fucking stupid?

>>68912212
Foobar is shit because it doesn't have album art caching to be honest

Also all the bars have the ugly Windows 7 folder blue and changing that is jumping through too many hoops, I'm not going to change my Windows visual theme to make my music player look not like shit

>>68914466
Just use some winamp spinoff. Minimal and shows album art.

>>68914466
>what are extensions

>>68914320
If you have a premium account it streams at 320kbps

>>68914449
I do you fucking idiot, log files and all. Some shit isn't in FLAC in case you haven't noticed.

>>68914497
Extensions don't address anything I mentioned.

Go ahead, search for an extension that displays the album art in the library and doesn't take fucking forever to load it in all the time.

I'm not going to replace all my components with similar ones that do less because they are made for a very specific layout and don't look like shit and I'm not going to change my Windows visual theme.

>>68914492
Can you recommend a specific one?

>>68914638
>an extension that displays the album art in the library and doesn't take fucking forever to load
Columns UI, literally the most basic extension available

>>68914638
Also,
>all the bars have the ugly Windows 7 folder blue and changing that is jumping through too many hoops
Going to properties and clicking two boxes isn't "too many hoops", you're just inept at using a computer.

Foobar quite literally crashed my computer and coincidentally, my ssd HD crashed and burned. Weird.

I'll never use that shit again. It's heavy, and "wordy". Any edits you make or add on are like writing code. Cool idea, but man...

>>68914697
Columns doesn't have album art caching and you need additional extensions to display the album art in the library and not just in one field when you play a song.

>>68914762
Why are you so bent on defending your shitty music player to the point of lying?

The thing is free, what's your stake in this?

>>68914808
>my ssd HD
kek
it's not hard to figure foobar out. it doesn't come with many components initially and that's a good thing. if you expect everything to work out of the box, you're obv going to be disappointed. welcome to computers.

>>68914999
No, no. I know. I just want my shit play in the background. A nice light piece of software. Maybe it's just too much for my instant gratification/patients.

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>>68914909
>Columns doesn't have album art caching and you need additional extensions to display the album art in the library and not just in one field when you play a song.
"no"

>>68914999
You can customize Foobar as much as you want, but the end product is always going to be shitty and limited because of Foobar at it's core and the components that are available.

There is really no point in using it.

ant_sunrise

>>68915052
Not him, but how did you make the volume bar grey?

Is that your Windows theme or did you make it different somehow?

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>>68915126
Disable visual themes
There's extensions for basic visuals too if you have a look around

>>68912638
god tier combo

>>68914697
Is there any reason to use Columns UI over the standard user interface?

I honestly really really hate Collumns UI

>>68915442
Just use it for album art

>>68915536
Does it cache it or is it the same as if I was using some other extension with the default UI?

The editing is a pain in the ass and I don't really like anything about Columns

>>68915729
You can keep the default UI and literally just use the album art feature though
see: >>68915052
And yeah, it caches, no need to keep artwork or go looking for it.

>>68915790
>You can keep the default UI and literally just use the album art feature though

How?

>>68915808
Just download and install the component without a skin, all the features are off by default.

>>68915850
I don't understand.

If I download Columns UI there is no skin and I can only use the components if I launch it in Columns UI instead of Default User Interface

>>68915872
Also Columns UI does not have a component that displays the library with album art, there just isn't one.

You just get album art in the playlists or the album art of the currently playing song

Foobar is such as massive waste of time and no matter how much shit I swim through it never ends up doing what I want it to

>>68915872
Then just remove the components you don't want, default Columns UI isn't that different from the default presets.
You should be able to edit it freely like default and still have all the default components, take a screenshot or something.

>>68912437
>make up random name
>download stuff
>get shitlisted
>repeat

>>68915998
I don't want to use Columns UI though, it's bad

The editing is a pain in the ass because the splitters aren't physically there and you can't open a scratchbox like in Default, it's not about the way it looks visually.

also refer to this >>68915958 there is literally no point of using Columns if it doesn't even do the album art correctly

What I'm looking for is a component like Facets that shows the whole library as a grid of album art with title, but that can't do caching

>>68916065
Then try MusicBee or some shit if you don't mind lag

>>68912608
>Good only if you are mainstream listener
Or if you ever feel like listening to anything that isn't pop music. Soulseek's collection of art music is really patchy.

>>68912229
>AIMP

Looks pretty shit, apparently you can't add a folder to be monitored as your library like you can with literally any other music player.

Is this thing made for people that just have a bunch of single .mp3's scattered about there computer and if they want to listen to it they click on the file?

>>68913781
For me, I can't use MusicBee because my flacs stutter on it for some reason.

>>68915442

Colums UI supports button toggling.

>>68916130
I tried using Music Bee but it's very bad.

Clementine/Poweramp/Soulseek/ /mu/ archives

>>68916274
Nevermind the UI is just obtuse

>>68916351
i haven't used clementine but that looks fucking horrible lmao

>>68912212
Foobar2000 + What.CD

>>68916451
Good thing it's not

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>>68912229
Do you happen to know of a way to turn off the seekbar on the task bar icon fellow AIMP user?

There's an option to disable "playback status on tray icon" but that doesn't actually seem to do anything

The yellow shit in pic related, it turns green and slowly creeps across the icon when you play a song

>>68912212
i dont use anything else and i'm doing pretty good

>>68913872
you're a fucking idiot, foobar is open soruce, musicbee is not, it automatically has more optimization.

>>68914638
This literally exists. I'm not going to tell you what it is though, because you're a fucking mongoloid who can't google

>>68917288
>This literally exists.

No, it doesn't.

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>>68917320

>>68917341
Fuck off Gary, you are wrong.

>>68916146
If you're actually into classical or traditional spotify has a massive collection

>>68916295
Turn on ASIO or WASAPI in the settings, and/or increase your buffer speeds

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>>68917258
You dont know what you're talking about l m a o

>>68912212
musicbee with what.cd + slsk/rutracker backup.
what.cd is definitive, 2.6million torrents, nearly 1million artist groups and 1million perfectly ripped FLACs.

>>68918023
>torrenting music

Have fun is prison asshat, I hope you like rape and getting knifed

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Give me a good reason why you're not just using iTunes as your music player

>>68918239
it won't play flac
i keep it on my computer for apple music and backing up my iphone though

>>68918239
Because it wipes playlists sometimes when it updates.

>>68918239
>no flac support
>ugly as fuck

>>68918239
I don't have a Mac.

>>68918239
I don't have many personal issues with itunes, but until recently I had this problem where it played music fine as long as you kept your headphones plugged in or unplugged (whichever it was when you opened iTunes), but then trying to switch between speakers and headphones would make it just refuse to work until you restarted the program. It could still do everything except for actually play music. It was really fucking annoying, and that is a really basic core issue that should not exist in the first place.

>>68918239
B L O A T

I use foobar because I know it longer and it's incredibly flexible to rice and otherwise.

very light on windows resources too.

>>68916295
get a CPU made after 1994

I can honestly say I've never found something on what.cd that I couldn't find on slsk, rutracker, or random blogs

I pretty much just quit using it

>>68912437
>uploading
Slsk only scans your files, you don't upload anything unless people request it from your library.

>>68920688
I was talking about what.cd though.

>>68912212
>soulseek
Enjoy your shit download speed and transcodes

>>68912212
I'm on Linux so I use cmus.

>>68918239
Because I already use foobar.

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>>68923016
>I'm on Linux

>>68912212
>>68912212
>columns.ui has crashed
>would you like to start in safe mode?

Why do I need to re-do my theme every few months because foobar dies and nukes my userstyle

>>68923016
I'm on linux and I use wine.
>it just werks

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>>68923016
mpd+ncmpcpp reporting in

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>>68923016
why people use Linux anyway?????????'
like what do you need so much

I used to use both, but it reminds me of a friend I really felt romantically into. He got me into those two programs and a shitton of music, but I was edgy af and ghosted one day. No coming back.

>tfw use spotify and streamfag

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>>68923016
>>68923394

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there is simply no "serious" alternative to foobar

>>68923426
that Greg is a nice guy

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>>68922608
wtf kinda meta is this?

wtf other better alternative is there for dl'ing?

>>68918239
bloatware, doesn't play well with flac, etc
also doesn't let me sync with my android

>>68923394
actually looks really cool

I use slsk when I can, which is 99% of the time. Otherwise, searching archived sharethreads will usually bring up what I need. I use google play music. Syncs with my phone, which is really convenient. I can queue a bunch of shit in slsk overnight and in the morning I'll have 20 new albums on my phone.

>>68912212
I prefer musicbee

>>68923825
Rutracker and what.cd

>>68923426
Because its objectively superior to any other Operating system in terms of customizability, security and ease of use

>>68923394
This

Hello fellow /g/entoomen

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>>68918239
i own an android

Soulseek doesn't sync with other apps on other devices, has a terrible UI, and doesn't even fucking work on my dorm network. So yeah, spotify it is. I don't care if I'm a pay fag. I can listen to my music ad free for 5.99 a month.

>>68919133
Good meme, friendo, but my CPU was made in 2014.

>>68912212
I use Youtube.

what's wrong with Winamp Pro?

the only issue I've ever had with it is organizing compilation/various artists albums.

>>68912238
soulseek has more than what.cd

>>68925433
Deprecated.

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music player thread?
music player thread

>>68918239
>updates keep changing the ui
>slow as fuck
>incredibly bloated piece of software
>not an apple shill
>looks eh
>no flac support
>no wma support (not that i use wma but it's good to have a music player that can play more than their devs propriety formats)
i will say i do miss some of the features
the "sort as" tag was super useful for placing associated artists near each other without changing the names for the artist or album artists
plus of the modes for displaying albums in a carousel is kinda neat

>>68914320
But it's 320kbps and you can download your music

>>68917258
Foobar isn't open source.

I stored all of my files on Google Drive and sync to my FiiO for listening. I just finished writing a tool to sync between the two (automatically) as Google's stock Drive client doesn't support USB. If there's interest I may polish it up and publish to the web.

>>68927710
is that skin third party? ive been using zune for almost a decade and im tired of lack of native scrobble support

>>68927802
i tried using spotify for the first time the other day
tried importing my music (fair few releases by local bands)
>slow as fuck
>froze up a bunch despite a modest music collection
>presents your music in one big list with no real navigation
>free version plays ads between songs being played from your computer
dropped

>>68927893
yeah
https://www.reddit.com/r/foobar2000/comments/4kwydy/after_5_years_of_using_foobar2000_i_just_learned/d3prs2x/
couple of modifications made, still working on a couple of improvements

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>>68927911
>tfw people with downloaded music in the future will be seen as how people view record collectors today

>>68924143
>Soulseek doesn't sync with other apps on other devices
what the fuck kind of millennial faggot shit are you talking about? it downloads albums, that's all you fucking need
>has a terrible UI
you're right, they didn't take into account that people with down's syndrome like yourself might have trouble using the incredibly simple UI. how silly of the developers
>doesn't even fucking work on my dorm network
and neither will any other torrents or filesharing software then, that's why you fucking download your music and build a library when you're at home

>So yeah, spotify it is. I don't care if I'm a pay fag. I can listen to my music ad free for 5.99 a month.
so basically you're a basic bitch dicksucker who brags about wasting money?

>>68927948
i just said it's mainly for small, local, bands that aren't on spotify
it's not me downloading music as an alternative, spotify literally doesn't have a bunch of smaller artists

>>68927934
thanks brudda, is there any kind of automatics relabeling thing or will i have to do that by hand

>>68927911
But you can navigate by artist and album and sort by alphabetical order, date added, title or artist. I'm not sure what version you're talking about anon.

>>68927972
i mean the way streaming is becoming the norm there will eventually be no need for a physical or personal digital release, people will most likely pay a licensing fee for new albums or it just goes into their accounts ballance

>>68928003
do you just love being buttfucked by big music corporations or something?

>>68928048
no senpai! i dont even have a spotify
just conjecture

>>68927973
how do you mean?
it should retain the metadata of your music library unless
it did for me

>>68928001
it's all just "your music collection" for local files, you can sort in different ways but one big list of >20000 songs isn't really navigatable (also slow af)

>>68928003
yeah, don't really love the way subscription models are proliferating
at least with steam you pay for ownership of games, not just a subscription