foobar2000 Best Addons
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Information Sites
foobar2000 formatting strings
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As someone may already have guessed, this page collects foobar2000 formatting strings. If you have made a style for fb2k, you are encouraged to send it here.
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foobar2000 Wiki
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Comprehensive help.
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Plugins
 
DSP
Continuator
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Advanced crossfader. Features:
- threshold-controlled start of new track
- force current track to fade-out with desired rate
- disable crossfading for seamless track transitions (may not work with mp3, ogg and wav should be fine)
- force tracklength to be multiple of Audio CD blocksize (588 samples), useful for creation of gapless mix cds
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Channel Divider
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  HA thread
Easy to build multi-way loudspeakers without trying over and over auditions and re-designing on LCR(passive) filters. You can setup multi-way loudspeakers without any LCR, actually we have verified 2 way with 18H52 x 2 + Raven R2 ribbon. It sounds excellent! Linear phase(group delay) , no interferr with other driver units
because of steep FIR filter. Just read the driver specifications and calculate efficiency differences between drivers. And offset level and select appropriate frequency for driver combination. That's all for your multi-way loudspeaker design.
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Mute switch
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Attenuates the sound to a configurable level when toggled on by a menu item, which you can also assign to a keyboard shortcut.
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Sjeng
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Equalizer presets, Convolver impulse responses (Misc, Tube amps, Guitar amps, Speakers/Headphones).
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Surround DSP
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Phase inverter and stereo expander, with optional lowpass filter exclusion. (keep your bass from being stoeled).
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Wider
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DSP plugin that allows you to adjust balance and channel separation on stereo and multichannel material. It can invert channels as well if needed.
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General
AMIP
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HA thread
AMIP is a now playing (np) plug-in.
AMIP can be used to put the playing song information on the WEB, using FTP or HTTP POST and GET methods. You can generate input information for dynamic image signature scripts using AMIP with AMIPDS package.
AMIP provides all the possible song information and is extremely customizable. It is simply the best now playing plug-in around.
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EncSpot
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This plugin adds a context menu item (Get Encoder...) that uses EncSpot to detect the encoder used to encode an mp3, then sets ENCODEDBY to that encoder.
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On-Screen Display
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Displays a pop-up notice every time the song changes, and it won't interfere with mouse interaction or steal focus. Sorry, Windows 2000/XP only.
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Quick Tag
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Allows you to set predefined metadata fields to files through context menu, aimed at easy rating of files by assigning to keyboard shortcuts.
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Read http
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Modification of official HTTP component, that enables stream saving.
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RM-X
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  HA thread
This is a full port of the current RM-X core over to the foobar2000 player. RM-X is designed to allow seemless integration of hardware, software, and user.

In current release, RM-X includes support for the following devices:
* Gamepads/Joysticks
* System-Wide Keyboard Shortcuts (works with multimedia keyboards too)
* IntelliRemote (for Creative's RM-900 remote shipped with Live/Audigy Platinum)
* Remote Center (for Creative's Remote Center application. used for RM-900, RM-1000, and iR2000 remotes)
* Creative's PC-DVD Remote
* ATI Remote Wonder
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Set year
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Adds submenu to "Masstagger" menu, and allows to set DATE field for selected files with only one click.
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Shuffle control
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'Smart' shuffle control with play history.
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Text Writer
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A simple plugin to output a text file with info about current playing song
Example of uses:
- Samurize
- Coolmon
- Making some sort of log
- Some other odd things

My configuration string to use with Samurize

It adds informations about the current song in Samurize meters. It write, with each information on a new line, artist, title, filename, time elapsed, length, album, track number, extension, bitrate, paused, stopped, playlist information states.

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Web
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Plugin that adds configurable web services to context menu.
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History
Db Search
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  HA thread Help
Searches in the database and playlist(s). Very configurable an easy to use (help file included).
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Input
DXi host component
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Plays various MIDI formats. Requires a GM-compatible DXi, such as Edirol Sound Canvas DXi or Hyper Canvas.
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MPEG Audio Decoder
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MP2/MP3 decoder service based on libmad-0.15.1b.
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Game Formats
ADPCM Decoder
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Contains ADX (Dreamcast), BRR (SNES or PSX), RAC (Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity), XA (DPCM format as defined by the Green Book, or CD-i standard; also used by PSOne and Saturn games).
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Game Emu Player
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Plays GBS, GYM (Sega Genesis), NSF, SPC, and VGM files.
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Lunar 2 PCM decoder
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Plays all of the .PCM files found on the original SegaCD version of Lunar: Eternal Blue.
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Interface
ColumnsUI
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  HA thread Formatting strings
Columns UI is an alternative user interface component. It support a playlist view with columns, and a sidebar with panels.
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Panels
Albumart Panel
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Displays album art images in a panel
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Albumlist Panel
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Displays a configurable list of the content of your database
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Explorer
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HA thread
Like windows explorer, a sidebar panel showing directive tree.
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History
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  HA thread Help
Provides browser style navigation through played songs.
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Panel Stack
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Add tabs for every elements in the panel
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Playlist Find
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Fast search in your playlist in a little window or in a panel
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Simple Spectrum
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  HA thread
Nice panel spectrum visualization
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Trackinfo Panel
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I figured it would be handy to have a sidebar panel that displayed some info (via TAGZ) about the currently playing or currently selected track.
The panel has two modes:
* now-playing mode - displays info according to the currently playing track
* follow cursor mode - displays info about the focused item in the current playlist
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Volume Control Toolbar
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Provides a UI Extension service for controlling the player's internal volume level, or one of the system mixer volume levels.
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Visualizations
Bacon Visualization Wrapper
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To use Winamp visualizations in foobar. To install visualisations, create a Winamp folder under foobar 2000 one. Create a new file, rename it to winamp.exe, then install the visualisation to the foobar2000/Winamp folder, or Plugins folder if the installer asks it.

Nice Winamp vis plugins

Geiss 2 Screenshot Geiss 2 is a Winamp audio-visualization plug-in that lets you fly through the sound waves of the music you're listening to.

Monkey Screenshot

Monkey is a 3D-accelerated Winamp visualization plug-in that takes you on a psychedelic journey through a never-ending network of underground passageways.

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projectM
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  HA Thread

Visualization using the projectM library. It's like Milkdrop, except the transitions between effects aren't very smooth and the fonts are on the ugly side. A version integrated as ColumnsUI panel exists too.

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Note : HA thread means Hydrogenaudio forum thread