Playing music with Foobar 2000

Foobar2000 is an application to play music on our computer using little resources but having at our disposal a great number of features, apart from supporting the most popular audio formats like MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA and WMA.

To be able to take the most profit from Foobar2000, the first thing that we should do is to load to its library all the music folders that we have, so we can have them always visible when we run the program. To do it, from the “File” we select “Preferences” and then on the emerging window we go to the eyelash “Media library”. There, on the field located on the centre, we incorporate the folders to the list. It’s important to have in mind that Foobar2000 performs an automatic search among the subfolders.

On the top bar we’ll see a series of buttons; their visualization is optional, as we can personalize that by doing a right click on it. There, apart from the volume controllers, location on the track and more, we’ll see a button with a question mark on top of a Play. By pressing it, the playlist will start playing in shuffle.

If we pay attention, under the field where the library is listed, we’ll find a field in which we’ll indicate Foobar2000 how we want it to list the music files. From there we’ll be able to select if we want it to do it according to the file tags, or basing on the folder structure.

As regards the tags, if we place ourselves on a track we’ll see that on the top right panel its “properties” will appear. By clicking on this field a window will emerge where we’ll be able to modify the different tags on the track and put the correct ones or the ones that we feel more suitable. To save the changes we just click OK.

One of the most interesting Foobar2000 features is the possibility to have multiple playlists loaded at the same time. To be able to do it, on the bar located on the bottom right field (the one corresponding to the playlist) we do a right click and select “New Play List”, being able to swap between one and the other whenever we want with just selecting the track and pressing Play.

As it can be seen, Foobar2000 counts with multiple options, which can be used intuitively. Maybe for some people it can be a disadvantage not to be able to incorporate skins, or that its interface isn’t the most attractive, but it’s widely compensated with its functionalities and because it makes the most of the resources.

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