How to skip to next song in folder without making playlist

2012-11-14 20:21:24

This didn't seem like a tech support issue, so I hope this is in the right forum. I recently switched to foobar from MPC-HC. I am having an issue with the Next and Previous buttons. With MPC, I could open any song from any folder, and then I could use the next and previous buttons to go to the next song or previous song in that folder, without making any kind of playlist. When I try this in foobar, it says "playback stopped" and plays nothing. Can I make the next and previous buttons go to the next or previous song in the folder without making a playlist or using a playlist file? I searched through all the settings but found nothing.

Foobar is the best media player I have found that actually plays flac correctly and has great gapless playback, but I really want to be able to skip between songs with the next and previous buttons. Thanks for any help!

How to skip to next song in folder without making playlist

Reply #1 – 2012-11-16 06:16:22

FB2K is a playlist based media player.  You need to create a playlist with all the files you want to play if you want to use the Next/Previous feature in FB2K.  You can  enqueue or play a media file from Windows Explorer and it will be put into a FB2K playlist.  But you need to add more files to the playlist to use the Next/Previous feature.  To my knowledge there is no way to duplicate what you're doing with MPC-HC in FB2K.

How to skip to next song in folder without making playlist

Reply #2 – 2012-11-16 12:45:20

How many ways do you need to skin a cat?