i dont know if there is a special forum - i did't find one.

ok first:

- what about a better way to adjust volume? (without plugins)

- nice idea with the rename, copy, move dialoge (copy, move parent directory and so on)
i will need this much. but is it possible to also rename the mp3 files? i mean "without preserve filename" but all the other options?

i think a checkbox option for "copy / move" parent directory, preserve directory strukture, perserve filename would be better. so the user can check what options he want to use.

maybe a option 2 delete othere files in the folder. (a filter funktion) to keep not only the mp3s in the directory. so that you can choose that also the jpg, nfo's, sfv's and so on would copied, all other would be deleted...

like:

track 1.mp3
track 2.mp3
folder.jpg
frontcover.jpg
backcover.jpg
album.nfo
check.sfv
album.m3u

so that when you perform move action (with move parent directory, preserve directory strukture, but chance file names) and oly keep .jpg and .m3u files that it will be copied to the new folder with

track 1.mp3
track 2.mp3
folder.jpg
frontcover.jpg
backcover.jpg
album.m3u

and the old folder inkl. parent directory will be delete incl. check.sfv and album.nfo (the file types that not marked as keep)

hope u understand me and my poor english.
i just wont to improve that fuckin cool music player


greetings sonic

I asked for the "non audio data being taken with mass-rename" thing a while back, apparently there's an option to do it but I tried it and it was completely insufficient.

Live updating for the folders in my database while foobar is running, so that I don't have to rescan all the time? Like Google Desktop does it... That would be fantastic.

yeah. and plz save playlist every time i add new files. because foobar2000 runs 6h hours and i create a playlist and add many files all the day long to it and suddenly it crashes and everything i added since the last start (often 100 playlist entries before) is gone (
thats very frustrating!!!!!

it was in foobar 0.8 and it is in 0.9 :/

plz FIX!

and please let the community help to improve foobar2k! thats the best way to make an software better!

hello!

it would be fine to have detailed version information included in "about page"

Without more detailed information (crashlog?) nobody will be able to help you and especially not be able to fix it (if it really is a problem with foobar2000).

Generally speaking I seriously doubt that.

Regards,
The Link

+1!

There are many ways foobar2000 crashes. i don't now any special...
the problem is not that it crashes (it can happen to the best program).. the problem is WHEN it crashes, that there SHOULD BE no oder very less data loss.
so if you add files to your playlist, the playlist files in your foobar dir (foobar settings dir) should be updated and the new playlist should be writte to the file.

now foobar only saves the new files temporary in the memory and writes (updates) the playlist files only when you exit foobar2000.

but if you dont exit normal way - for example when foobar crashes all new playlist files/changes since the last exit of the program are gone.

you can try it.

add files to your playlist.
close foobar2000
open foobar2000 and add again some files to your playlist.
then crash foobar (just kill the process with task mangager or something like that)
then start foobar. only the files since you closed foobar normal are there.
the news files that you added before the (forced) crash are gone

you understand?

I understand what you want but I still don't agree with you. Software shouldn't be made to tollerate crashes in the best possible way but to prevent crashes. Foobar itself doesn't crash and if it does it is a bug which will get fixed. If you use plugins which make foobar crash you should simply delete them.
I hardly know any Software (besides database related software like Access) that automatically overwrites open files without any user interaction (creating recovery files in the background is sth. different imho). I also think that I don't want Software to behave like this.

Regards,
The Link

If you drag the new songs into a playlist and they are in a path specified in the foobar db preferences, then they are automatically added to the database.

I usually drag new files into an empty playlist, replaygain them and fix up any tag problems, then use a mass-renamer script to put them into 'My Music'.

Typical... you know, there's a reason my friends call me a nerd for using foobar. It's because to do very simple things you typically have to go through several convoluted and completely unnecessary processes to achieve those things. I third the 'live update' function request, or at least some way to make updating the library faster. Re-scanning the entirity of your collection seems a tad unnecessary, methinks.

Personally, I'd like some improvements done to the way foobar tags things- if I have 10,000 tracks and a couple of them have some tag I want to get rid of, I should be able to select them all, look at their properties, choose to remove the offending tag, and let it do its job without having to wait 5 years while it tries to apply the changes to every file. Some kind of simple check to see whether the changes are appropriate would save on time- you don't need to re-write the complete set of tags for every file, that's just so inefficient.

Did you even read what I posted?
As soon as you play the songs in foobar, if they are in your database path, they will be added to the database. Simple really.
That's a good point, though what if you are running multiple actions etc? There is only the case you describe where a 'simple check' would work. It's pretty easy to sort your playlist by the offending tag, select the few songs you want, and click remove.

True, but not as simple as just chucking the files in the folder (or syncing) with totalcommander, cranking up foobar and having them just be there in your autoplaylists and everything because it's scanned for changes in media library paths on startup, or in the background. Sure, you can do it by dragging/dropping the files twice (once to their folder, once to foobar), and it's probably not a vitally desirable feature to have if you already use it in a smart way. But all else being equal it would be cool to have this feature as well.
The relevant reasons against would be the implimentation trade-offs in terms of developer time, effort and interest, and if it would cause too much of a slowdown to be worthwhile.

I agree. And I don't think it would have to cause too much of a slowdown. Look at other programs that do this. Desktop search programs etc. I don't see any big performance degradations...

I actually think the whole point of having a media library gets lost if it doesn't update itself with the contents of your ACTUAL music library, all those files on your harddrive, you know.

But I know it would take some time and effort to get properly done. Maybe I know someone who could help... there's this programmer I know, who's working on a different project called Locate32, a systemwide search app that indexes all your drives really quickly. He's going to try to implement this very feature into Locate, if you'd work together on researching what's needed maybe you could minimize the time spent and improve the result (less buggy because of collaborate testing? etc.) Hmm.

Sorry, I suppose that last bit should have gone into another paragraph, it wasn't directed at you.

It doesn't really matter how many actions you're performing, the simple checks should be done regardless. If a file isn't intended to be altered, foobar should recognise this and not waste time re-writing the original data. The database is a lot faster than hard-drive I/O, the checks would take no time at all in comparison and would save a lot of time overall.

As a side note: I use Tag&Rename, and that's able to alter tags roughly 1 billion times faster than foobar does, does anybody know how that does it, and if so, if it's possibly to use its method in foobar? If foobar was that fast, I'd run out of reasons to use Tag&Rename, masstagger does everything it can do and more, albeit slower at the moment.

Hello everyone,

Foobar2000 is the ultimate player audio. I've used winamp since the inception and now i wonder why?

Anyways, you know what would be nice...

If foobar could read the replaygain values stored in the LAME mp3 tags and not just the APEv2 data

Just a suggestion, also when using stylexp the "show notification balloon" doesnt work

Bye

I would like the converter to include EVERY standard audio setting in the quick setup section, including the lower quality settings like Lame V9.

You can add any preset you like. Including all possible presets in the preset list by default would just create an unnecessarily large list for many (most?) people.

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Please use separate thread for each feature idea/suggestion in the future. Experience shows that piling all suggestions into a single thread leads to a humonguous thread that developers hardly read. Moreover, the feature suggestions in this kind of thread tend to get increasingly... unrealistic.