After installation 1- Delete 'foo_uie_lyrics2.dll' (in components) and add its newer version*(). (When you run foobar2000 you will see that the lyrics tab's settings(right click) don't exist- It's ok.) 2- Go to settings>Columns UI>Layout Tab>You'll see panel stack splitters. () 3- Click right third head panel stack splitter title, Insert panel>Panels>Lyrics Show 3 4- Click left and 'configure' the third head panel stack splitter () 5- Change name as 'Lyrics', make the values and the clicks same as 'Biography' 6- Apply-Ok That's it 7- Now you can go to the foobar2000 lyrics tab, and you can change panel preferences (CUSTOM>fonts, highline colour, background colour etc.) *Newer version may run on first installation??? Zune background colour numbers 210 19 64 11 14 17 highline colour numbers 214 220 209 15 111 150.

(Last updated: 19 November 2017) (fb2k) is the most lightweight, powerful, customizable music player I’ve ever used. I switched over from iTunes, as I was getting tired of the bloat it has become, and I have never turned back ever since.

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Of course, I did initially run into some concerns that it won’t be able to do the things that I always found useful on iTunes. And with fb2k’s bare, customisation-focused experience, it does certainly look unappealing to the casual music listeners, and it really involves a lot of tweaking to really improve the user experience. After hours of tweaking, I finally managed to pull it off, and my fb2k installation now looks beautiful. Here’s a guide on how to make your fb2k look more like the one above. Sure, this might not be the best setup there is, but at least it makes your fb2k experience more bearable.

Each section will outline the required components for you to download and follow along. Interface Required components: • The default fb2k interface is fine, but unfortunately it lacks some pretty important features, like customizable playlist views, and most importantly, with like most other music players have. When I started transitioning to fb2k, a friend of mine recommended that I use, and I loved it at first sight.

It improves much of fb2k’s user experience, and it also adds thumbnail toolbars to your taskbar, without any additional components needed. It’s pretty much a multi-purpose UI kit for fb2k. After you’ve finished installing Columns UI and set it as your default UI, you will be presented with this screen. The initial Columns UI setup screen.

Here you can choose a number of quick UI presets for you to get started, but if needed, you can later customize it from Preferences >Display >Columns UI >Layout. Columns UI settings page. Unfortunately, I’ve never touched this section, so look up on how you play around with this section yourself, I guess. If you’re wondering why I recommended you use Columns UI, we’ll get to that later.

Automated track ratings Required components: • • One other thing that fb2k lacks is a rating system. I’ve tried looking for some random components that does this but none of them do what I wanted.

Then I came across explaining the Date and Duration Adjusted (DADA) auto-rating algorithm, an automated, algorithm-based rating system for fb2k. The article above provides an in-depth explanation on how the algorithm works.

It does take a while to understand how the algorithm makes any sense, but four or five months in, you’ll start to see it really kick in. Shows in detail how to get the DADA algorithm up and running, complete with all of the options that are available. If reading’s not your thing, follow these guides. First, open File >Preferences >Media Library >Dynamic Fields, click on the Add Field (+) button, and name this field dynamic_rating. Then, on the “Title formatting expression” textfield, paste the following.

%album artist%/%album%/[%discnumber%-]%tracknumber%%title% You can learn more about defining file name patterns on this. In order to organise new music in your library, first you must move your new music into a placeholder directory inside your main library folder, like _unsorted. Then head over to Library >Album List, then right click on “All Music”, then head over to File Operations >Move to then select your saved preset, like so. Moving tracks somewhere else in your system using FileOps. You will now see a preview of the changes made in your directory.

Click “Run” to confirm your changes. Tagging with Discogs Required components: • It’s very important to properly tag your music library, for the sake of consistency, especially when you’re sharing what you’re listening to to services like.

Well, good news: foo_discogs does exist. Unfortunately, before you want to use it, you will have to create an account at in order to get an OAuth token to. If you don’t want to do that, you can try, which grabs data from MusicBrainz’s database, though it’s not as robust as the one for Discogs.

(You can always use a third-party tagging tool like.) To use this component, right click on any track/album, and head over to Tagging >Discogs >Write Tags. It will then look up the Discogs database for your album details. Foo_discogs automatically looks up your track on the Discogs database. Once found, choose the appropriate release for the album, and click Next. (You can also manually type the Release ID, if you know it.) Review your changes in the next dialog box, and click on “Write Tags” to write the new ID3 tags to your tracks. Though keep in mind that this only saves the album art into the album directory without writing it to the ID3 tags too. To do so, right click on the tracks again, and go to Tagging >Batch attach pictures.

Manually attaching the album art to the ID3 tags. Choose to overwrite the album art already attached to the track if necessary, then click “OK” to save your changes.

Backing up your fb2k installation. If in some cases you’ll need to reinstall your computer, and you couldn’t afford to lose your sick fb2k setup, you can back up your fb2k installation and transfer it to another computer. Milton Piano Serial Numbers. Will explain how. Conclusion In conclusion: yes, you can actually make your fb2k experience to be more bearable.

Yes, fb2k is the one of the best, most customisable music players out there, and yes, you should use it yourself too. Feel free to use this guide as you wish. Customisation is one of fb2k’s prime experience, in fact, I encourage you to improve on this setup yourself. The setup demonstrated here is what has always worked for me, and people’s preferences can be different, so feel free to change things up here and there if you don’t like how some stuff works. It’s a tedious process at first, but trust me, it really will be worth it at the end of the day. Feel free to if you need help in your setup procedure.