Tag: FOOBAR

Ahh, ... feature bloat, how we love thee. There used to be a time when Foobar2000 was the scrappy, fast, agile player on the market. It was up against Winamp, which had become so bloated that it was almost a joke. Today, years later, here's Foobar2000 weighing in at 29MB of RAM on my system. That's with the stock UI, no fancy skinning, and very few add-ons enabled (just the ones that come with ...

This is just a small note to say Foobar 1.0 has reached the end of its Beta testing and is now a full-fledged V1.0 release! As suspected, very little changed between Beta and Release. There isn't much else to add that I didn't cover in the previous article. Foobar is a music player. That's basically all it does. It touts a customizable UI, but I don't know many people that bother with that. ...

Foobar 2000 is a great, lightweight audio player. Since it supports plug-in components, making it even better is as simple as dropping a .dll file in the correct folder. Those of you running Windows 7 and looking for an alternative player with the same slick taskbar integration Windows Media Player features, Foobar might be just the thing. Drop in the Windows 7 Shell Integration component, ...