Last.fm ~ Scrobblers


Last.fm is a web service that scrobbles, or tracks and publishes, your music profile and listening history.

Download software to scrobble from anywhere and from any service.

Official:
Last.fm
Github

Android:
github.com/simple-last-fm-scrobbler

Browser plugins:
Last.fm scrobbler for Chrome
scroblr.fm

Cross-platform:

github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler
github.com/dumbie/ZuseMe

Foobar2000:
github.com/gix/foo_scrobble ~ newer
github.com/zfoxer/foo_scrobbler_mac
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_audioscrobbler

Web:

openscrobbler.com
universalscrobbler.com

foo_audioscrobbler ~ Foobar2000 & Last.fm


Last.fm is a web service that maintains a history of what you’ve listened to. You’ll need a Last.fm account and a player that can scrobble. Scrobbling is uploading the artist’s name and song title of your currently playing track to Last.fm’s server. foo_audioscobbler allows Foobar to keep your Last.fm profile current.

  • It replaces the Last.fm client application.
  • It supports the current submission protocol.
  • It sends “now playing” notifications to your Last.fm profile.

Optionally, it can import played tracks from your iPod via the foo_dop component.

After you install foo_audioscrobbler, you’ll need to log into your Last.fm account in Foobar’s Preferences menu.

Capture - Foobar - prefs - audioscrobbler

www.mp3tag.de/en/fb2k
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_audioscrobbler
Last.fm
My Last.fm profile

Alternative Scrobbler ~ github.com/gix/foo_scrobble/releases

foo_verifier ~ Foobar Audio File Verifier


Checks specified media files for decoding errors. Note that with most formats, its accuracy is limited to detecting errors that abort the decoding process.

Capture_foo_verifier_results
Website
Documentation

After installing this Foobar plugin, you’ll have two new menu choices under the right mouse click context menu: Utilities > Verify integrity and Utilities > Verify album with Accuraterip

It’s also possible to see more information if you go to File > Preferences > Advanced > Tools > File Integrity Verifier and enable Verbose AccurateRip Output

CUETools ~ CUE File Utility & Transcoder


CUETools is a tool for lossless audio/CUE sheet format conversion. The goal is to make sure the entire album image is preserved accurately. A lossless disc image must be lossless not only in preserving contents of the audio tracks, but also in preserving gaps and CUE sheet contents. Many applications lose vital information upon conversion, and don’t support all possible CUE sheet styles. For example, foobar2000 loses disc pre-gap information when converting an album image, and doesn’t support gaps appended (noncompliant) CUE sheets.

CUETools215

cue.tools/wiki/Main_Page
cue.tools/wiki/CUETools
cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Download
cue.tools/wiki/Category:CUETools_Guides
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?board=74.0

Boom Audio Player ~ Foobar2000 Simplified


Frome the same developer who brought you Foobar2000 comes Boom.

Boom is an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.

Features:

  • No installation or administrator rights required! Just download and run.
  • Gapless playback of properly encoded files. Enjoy smooth transitions between tracks.
  • ReplayGain support. External software is currently required to write ReplayGain information to file tags to utilize this functionality.
  • Contents of your music folders are shown, in a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view.
  • By default, contents of “my music” folder or Windows Music library folders are shown. You can configure Boom to index music from any other folders though.
  • You can install Boom to removable media and have it index contents of the folder it is installed in.
  • Are your files badly tagged or missing tags all together? No problem, Boom can browse your music library by its folder structure.
  • Supports variety of popular audio formats, including: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A, WMA.
  • For emergency tagging needs, Boom includes a simplified version of the foobar2000 Properties dialog.
  • Easily configured to run from removable media.
  • Multi-language support.
boom-1

perkele.cc/software/boom
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NQNS46R8T75

Lacinato ABX ~ Comparing Track Quality


Lacinato ABX is the only cross-platform ABX and shootout blind testing software for audio. It allows double-blind ABX testing of audio files (seeing if you can tell which file is being played), as well as “shootouts” (picking your favorite from a shuffled, anonymized list). Or you can just use it as a convenient way to switch between files (maintaining the current play position, if you like.

Lacinato ABX

Website
Web Service ~ online version
ABX Testing ~ Wikipedia

Audacious & XMMS ~ VU Meters Plugin


Open source, multi-instance, skinnable VU meters for Audacious and XMMS.

sc5

Audacious with several instances

vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net
Discussion
Downloads

Skins:
http://vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net/themes.php
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LED+VU+meter?content=140540

Sox ~ The Swiss Army Knife Of Sound Processing


SoX is a cross-platform command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.

Sox
Sox sample session

Website
Features
Download
Documentation
Scripts
FAQ

Additional resources:
www.audiofaidate.org/sw/sox-dsd/
codeberg.org/sox_ng

NirCmd ~ Windows Command Line Tool


NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying a user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line options, or via a shortcut, you can decrease or increase the system volume, mute or unmute the system volume, speak the text currently in the clipboard or text file, change the default sound device, display a list of sound devices, change the volume of an app, change the display settings, turn off the monitor, open the door of a CD-ROM drive and more…

www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd
Command Reference
Change Default Sound Device
List Sound Devices
Change System Volume
Change App Volume

Peppy Players ~ DIY Audio Players


Peppy Players

Hardware, software and woodware do-it-yourself audio players

Peppy Players ~ GitHub

Clyp ~ An Audio File Sharing Site


Clyp web service allows anyone to share and embed uploaded audio files. There’s also an API, a recorder and web page widgets.

Website
FAQ
Widgets
Online Voice Recorder

foo_playcount ~ Foobar2000 Playback Stats


You can extend Foobar2000 functionality by increasing the information the player maintains. Installing the foo_playcount component allows Foobar to both keep track of additional data, and adds the following user available fields:

  • Date and time a track was first played ~Β %first_played%
  • Date and time a track was last played ~Β %last_played%
  • The number of times a track has been played ~Β %play_count%
  • Date and time a track was first added to the Media Library ~Β %added%
  • Song rating ~Β %rating%

Song Rating Playlist Display

The songs rating can now be displayed in a playlist viewer in two ways:

  • On a 1 to 5 scale with %rating%
  • Displayed as up to five stars, “β˜…β˜…β˜…”, with %rating_stars%
  • Displayed as five stars, “β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†”, with %rating_stars_fixed%

Note: This component should be installed at the same time as Foobar2000, if your goal is to have a complete play count history.

Discussion
Download
Documentation
Display (Title) Formattingplaylist viewer

foo_playcount_2003

This component uses the same database backend that foo_playcount utilises for logging plays but has many more advanced features and fewer limitations.

  • Playcounts and dates can edited for any context menu selection.
  • Data can be imported from file tags or fields provided by other components.
  • Ratings up to 10 are supported.
  • You can customise how long you have to listen before a play count is incremented.
  • The current time is available via title formatting as a full date time string or Unix timestamp.
  • First played, last played and added are all available as Unix timestamps.
  • How records are bound to tracks can be configured in theΒ Advanced Preferences.

marc2k3.github.io/component/playcount-2003