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(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:10PM
Yeah, "crap" is what I thought, too. I'll stick with Winamp, as it basically works and looks better.
BTW, I /know/ that I /could/ spend a couple of days installing panel plugins and stuff to make fubar (ehm foobar :P) look acceptable. But it is not worth the effort to me.
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:14PM
Do you often spend time looking at your music player while it... plays?
I thought the days of visualisations were long-gone...
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:16PM
Not actually, but I like the Winamp icon in my taskbar or the narrow black bar on top of my screen more than foobar's boring grey window. I don't use Vis, the music I listen to gives enough kaleidoscope art to me...
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:19PM
Ah-hah. Well, fair enough!
Issues like that really become nonexistent with Windows 7 though. I have a Foobar icon on my 'superbar' -- square icon, 32x32 I guess -- and I can access Foobar through that.
I agree, it's not pretty by default, but I spend so little time actually looking at it, it's not a problem.
I spend much more time looking through my music trying to find something to queue up :)
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:20PM
Winamp's Media Library is quite good for digging through your music collection. Especially if it is not too well sorted on your hard disk... :-)
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:23PM
Again, the indexing in Windows 7 does that job for me -- there's a very neat/fast search box in the top right corner of every Explorer window.
Embrace the NEW!
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:25PM
As I don't like Windows 7 (because of its new "features") and don't like the Windows Explorer (XP+ forced me to buy xplorer²), this is not really something I'll take into consideration...
BTW I don't think it's good that you'll have to use your operating system for stuff like that which should actually be a part of your media player itself...
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:32PM
Indexing is always a great idea! Until we get a new file system that doesn't necessitate that...!
I think this argument could go on for a while. I'm done!
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:35PM
Indexing is useless if you:
1) use the ability to sort files into folders and subfolders wisely
2) use a more advanced file searching system (grepWin?)
...
It was not intended as an argument. Sorry if it felt this way.
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:50PM
I'm not sure indexing is ever useless. Do you know how file systems work?
Indexing speeds up a lot of things, not only searching for the right music files :)
(Unverified)Nov 20th 2009 7:58PM
Indexing stresses your hard disk with a cache you don't really need, too. ;)