ok fellow foobar users, its time for another post by me.
as you will see my layout is still very much based on the old one of tool's.
i have now decided that all that info in the top box was misplaced and i have found better ways to implant it.
the most important thing was the codec/bit rate info anyway. so i put that in the play list but only for the currently played item to keep it clean.
i have furthermore finally managed to make/find buttons which match my layout. they are based in the "tiny"-buttons set i found on these forums. i also removed all the default tool bars which makes my entire foobar columns_ui based. the menus thingy is now auto-hidden under the play list and the seek bar is auto-hidden in-between the equalizer and the lyrics panel.
you can also see that i modified my group display to make its look a little more compact.
and i eventually found a decent wallpaper which resembles the style of my setup.
but lets get down and dirty now
here is the media:

and here is the appendant no-cover image:

the only thing i'm waiting for now is the function to set a minimal group size in the play list!! i hope it'll get released soon cause my play list can look well messed up with out it

and as always: thanks to everyone who's work i used for this and feel free to ask questions about it!