Category Archives: Foobar2000

Foobar2000 Audio Player

foo_discord_rich ~ Foobar2000 & Discord Integration

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Foobar component which displays information about currently played track via Discord Rich Presence.

github.com/TheQwertiest/foo_discord_rich
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,116860.0.html

Alternative:
github.com/ultrasn0w/foo_drpc

Footers:
if($stricmp($right(%filename_ext%,3),iso),Super Audio CD - 2.8MHz,%codec% - $ifgreater(%samplerate%,1000000,$insert($div(%samplerate%,100000),'.',$sub($len($div(%samplerate%,100000)),1)) MHz,$ifgreater($mod(%samplerate%,1000),0,$insert($div(%samplerate%,100),'.',$sub($len($div(%samplerate%,100)),1)) kHz,$div(%samplerate%,1000) kHz)) - %bitrate% kbps)

if2ktool ~ Migrate Data From iTunes™ To Foobar2000

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This tool is aimed at people migrating a music library from iTunes™ to Foobar2000, and allows you to keep the various statistics and dates that are saved by iTunes. It reads these fields from your iTunes Library XML, and writes them to the file tags that are expected by the import function of foo_playcount. You can transfer playlists too.

github.com/macklinb/if2ktool

DRC Designer ~ Optimize Audio Rooms

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Digital Room Correction Designer was created to ease the process of creating and loading room correction filters for use with two channel stereo systems. DRC Designer includes Denis Sbragion’s DRC for creating room correction filters, John Pavel’s Convolver VST for playing music through the filters, and Simple Automated IR Measuring Tool by Denis Sbragion and Edward Wildgoose for creating the impulse response files needed by DRC.

TargetDesigner

www.alanjordan.org/DRCDesigner
Foobar2000 Setup

foo_dsp_dolbyhp ~ Foobar Virtual 5.1 Headphones

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Dolby Headphone technology gives you the sound of a 5.1 surround system through any pair of headphones.

It accurately models the surround sound listening experience of a properly set up and calibrated 5.1-channel speaker system, making it ideal for personal and portable surround listening.

This component wraps the functionality of a Dolby Headphone engine DLL (typically DOLBYHPH.DLL bundled with some software DVD players) to be used under Foobar2000. After installation you must configure the plugin pointing out the location of that DLL in your system and restart foobar2000. Amplification is provided by the Dolby Headphone engine itself.

foo_dsp_dolbyhp

Additional resources:
ww.head-fi.org/threads/5-1-headphone-experience-foobar-configuration-for-all-stereo-music-files.447089/

www.head-fi.org/threads/foobar2000-dolby-headphone-config-comment-discuss.555263/

www.dlldownloader.com/dolbyhph-dll/

Foobar2000 ~ Official Free Encoder Pack

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This pack includes every natively supported free encoder binary for use with the Converter Foobar2000 component. The binaries are conveniently installed into a subfolder of the Foobar2000 installation folder.

Current versions of Foobar2000 will automatically recognize these encoders and no longer ask you for encoder binary location.

Included encoders:

  • FLAC
  • Ogg Vorbis
  • Opus
  • Musepack
  • WavPack
  • AAC + Apple Lossless (qaac) – requires iTunes to be installed (read more…)
  • AAC (fhgaacenc) – requires Winamp to be installed (read more…)
  • Apple Lossless (refalac)
  • MP3 (LAME)

www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack

foo_dsp_subwoofer ~ Foobar2000 Linear Phase Filter

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Extracts bass from the source signal using a linear phase low-pass filter and sends it to the LFE channel.
Features:

  • fast fir processing
  • adjustable filter shapes
  • delay control
  • mono, stereo, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 input support

foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_subwoofer
HA Forum Topic

Linear phase is a property of a filter, where the phase response of the filter is a linear function of frequency. The result is that all frequency components of the input signal are shifted in time (usually delayed) by the same constant amount (the slope of the linear function), which is referred to as the group delay. And consequently, there is no phase distortion due to the time delay of frequencies relative to one another.

~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_phase

foo_dsp_vlevel ~ Dynamic Normalization

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VLevel keeps your music from making you jump out of your seat, and it keeps you from having to fiddle with the volume constantly. It’s different from other dynamic compressors because it looks ahead. You can think of VLevel as someone who knows your music by heart, and turns the volume up during quiet passages, but smoothly turns it back down when he knows a loud part is coming. It’s great for making CDs to listen to in your car, or to play background music on your computer.

Vlevel

vlevel.sourceforge.net
HydrogenAudio Topic
HydrogenAudio Wiki

JScript Biography ~ Foobar2000 Biography Script (Old)

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There is an updated version here.

Adding scripts is one method used to extend Foobar’s abilities. Not only are there quite a few existing useful scripts, new custom scripts can be written. One great script is the Biography script which displays biography and rating information from both AllMusic and Last.FM

Biography plugin - allmusic reviewScript Panel:

JScript ~ github.com/marc2k3/foo_jscript_panel/releases

Script:

JScript Biography ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112913.0

The most recent version of the script is on, or near, the last page of this discussion.
  1. Download and unzip the newest version of the Biography script
  2. Download and install foo_jscript_panel
  3. In Foobar2000 select “Layout > Enable Layout Editing Mode”
  4. Add a new panel or tab to your Foobar interface
  5. Right click in the new area and select “Add New UI Element…”
  6. Select “JScript Panel” in the Utility section
  7. You should now see a JScript panel and “Click here to open editor.”
  8. Click on the panel to open the editor and click the “Tools” button and select “Import” and navigate to the biography script folder, select the script file (biography.txt) and click “Open”
  9. Click “Apply”, Dismiss the popup message and click “Ok”
  10. Disable “Layout editing mode” in the “View” menu

Forum Discussion:

hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112914.msg929674

foo_bpm ~ Foobar2000 & BPM

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foo_bpm – A Foobar component for automatically analyzing the number of beats per minute in audio files.

Installing and using foo_bpm:

First download and install foo_bpm.fb2k-component.

BPM Installed
foo_bpm successfully installed

The second step is adding a new BPM playlist column to the DUI playlist viewer:

BPM Column
Right click the playlist header and select columns. Toggle the BPM column on.

The third step, add an Analyze BPM toolbar button:

  1. Right click on the metronome icon ico file shown below and download / save it locally
  2. Right click the Foobar toolbar
  3. Select the Customize button
  4. Select from Available Commands [context] > BPM Analyzer > Automatically analyze BPMs
  5. Click Add
  6. Click Change Icon and select the downloaded metronome.ico file
  7. Click OK
metronome.ico (right click and save this ico file locally)
BPM Analyser > Automatically analyse BPMs


The fourth and final step is to select and scan files:

Once the toolbar button is installed, songs can be selected then scanned. The songs will now be tagged with the %bpm% tag and can be selected or sorted by beats per minute as displayed in the playlist column.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_wJH6TjcY

References:

www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_bpm
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,77142.0
Updated Configuration
github.com/stengerh/foo_bpm
foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_bpm (latest version)

Foobar2000 ~ DSD & SACD Audio Resources

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Compressing DSD files with WavPack 5:

D.I.Y. Audio Heaven:
Compressing DSD files with Wavpack 5

Hydrogen Audio:
How to properly pack DSF files into WavPack?
DSD, WavPack and Foobar SACD Decoder

Foobar2000 DSD and SACD support:

I’ve successfully followed these steps to get DSD (.dsf filetype) and SACD (.iso filetype) playing at high bit rate using foobar2000 on my S.M.S.L M500 DAC.

gist.github.com/milnak/c3b4148e574fa7828cc7d24e46d6dbe9

Resources:

foo_input_sacd ~ Foobar2000 & SACDs

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DIY-AUDIO-HEAVEN: Playing SACDs with Foobar2000

Foobar2000 for Dummies (Part 1) – General Setup
Foobar2000 for Dummies (Part 2) – Playing DSD – New SACD plugin (0.9.x & 1.x.x)
Foobar 2000 for Dummies (Part 3) – Playing DSD – Old SACD plugin (0.7.x & 0.8.x)

foo_wave_seekbar ~ Foobar2000 Waveform Seekbar

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Enhance the appearance and functionality of Foobar2000 by adding a visual waveform representation of the currently playing audio track, which can be used to navigate to any point in the image of the track by clicking there.

Waveform Seekbar is a UI element for both the Default UI and Columns UI that provides seekbar functionality (seeking, position indicator) on top of a pretty image of the waveform of the currently playing song, drawn using either Direct3D 9.0c or Direct2D 1.0.

foobar_waveform_seekbar

Foobar Waveform Seekbar in action

Topic ~ Hydrogen Audio
Download ~ Hydrogen Audio
Documentation ~ Hydrogen Audio
Source code ~ GitHub

Additional resources:

Waveform Minibar ~ CUI Only
Installing a foobar component
Waveform ~ Wikipedia