Forget Spotify: The Best Foobar Theme Tutorial for New (& Old) Users - This looks CLEAN!

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Many are considering alternatives to the various online music streaming services. Is it time to check out bandcamp and actually own some of your own music? In this video we will show you the EASIEST way to set up Foobar2000 and install an awesome theme. It takes about 10 minutes and then you'll have total control over your music library. Here's the links to make it happen:
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[@NeonLabsss]

make sure to get 32 bit foobar so the theme can work

[@MrAkella33]

Wanted to say thanks, I've been struggling with making my foobar look nice and this was the perfect all in one solution. I love it!

[@JMartinni]

Been using foobar2k with the CaTRoX theme for years, based one of your old videos about foobar, same with bandcamp. So, high time to thank you for those recommendations. Both are superb.

[@matrixmodulator]

what you mean with bandcamp? it works with foobar2000?

[@johnvonneumannsdaddy8207]

been using this theme for the longest time now, and I have no complaints with it.

[@Viperion444]

I'm a hardcore Winamp fan that had never used ANYTHING different ever since 1997 or so. Recently, I discovered that Foobar 2000 has a file integrity component, that is a much needed feature for me. Then I came here and saw the Xenogears CD cover, and Metal & Videogame music was immediately mentioned... I am subscribed now. Xenogears has been one of my very fav. games; I have always wanted to read the whole Xenosaga. Metal is 95% of what I listen to. I think this cannel will be my most-visited one from now on. Thanks for all the great info!

[@_knotty3510]

I just stumbled upon this video - so good. thank you for putting the effort into this and the fantastic explanation.

[@Dvlx1]

Dude I swear to God, three days ago I decided to bin Spotify and move back to an old school Foobar setup and I specifically remembered and went to your video from 8 years ago about configuring it properly. This is actually such a wild coincidence!

[@user-lz3rb9jy3o]

thank you so much. this installation really confused me for a long time. i really appreciate meeting this video.

[@menbead]

i just want to say a quick thank you i had been trying a different tutorial with a ton of broken links and then the actual eole installation instructions, which also didnt work. so this really helped me after like 4 hours or messing with this. thanks a lot!

[@trixxterdome]

Is says failed to load after copying them to component folder. EDIT: Needs 32bit version to work

[@BerryBog]

Thank you! I've been looking for a modern App like interface for my massive music collection and this is perfect.

[@Anerus90]

Wow this is awesome! Finally an amazing theme that works for me. Thank you for this!

[@reppo2373]

I really needed this, cheers!

[@MorbidLyre]

Thank you for this, great taste in music too, Lunar Womb, Belenos...very nice! Great video, you have a new subscriber.

[@st-christian14]

Dude, you are so awesome!

[@rekintoloco]

Thanks a bunch my friend! My intense library just got a new meaning.

[@boars]

This didn't work for the 64bit version - if like me you're having issues, try the 32 bit version and you should be sweet!

[@aryanjohnsharma]

the 32bit version is a bit sluggish

[@sighb0rg]

i decided to not renew my spotify premium and go back to using foobar. i have the most vanilla-ass foobar setup though and want to spice things up, so your incredibly well timed guide is going to be super valuable to me. thanks logan! btw love your music! its great for long coding sessions.

[@yokailover]

very nice, thank you sir!

[@wolfondrugs4961]

amazing stuff. thanks!

[@FERMUSICA]

Works great thank you!!!

[@IQPropertyMoseley]

That’s a superb explanation. I love foobar for the audio quality but can’t stand the usual navigation. Am going to give this a try tomorrow.

[@twistedhairball]

Thanks this is great!!

[@dweebosupremo5904]

dude the portable tip was so nice. i never really thought about how annoying it is to indulge in those default install options when i only use one windows account in reality. tldr i don't want random little files in a random hidden folder.

[@Constantinus_Apollyon]

I've used foobar2k for 2 days now, Amazing , 0 frustration, I can play my Flac/32b-96kHz no problems, also natively convert 'em to AIFF and import 'em to my iPod. This vídeo was on point, easy , fast , and without unnecessary comments. Well done , just subscribed gonna check more of your content. Cheers.

[@GaleonGuitar]

Custom keyboard shortcuts also are so helpful because you can set them to "global", which allows you to use them even when foobar is minimized. Personally I like to have shortcuts to move a few seconds forward/backwards when I want to listen to a specific part of the song, I can do that while I'm playing games or doing something else without switching to the foobar window. 😄

[@Thoughtflux]

As always an excellent video! I still run your original theme with a few tweaks of mine. Was wondering how to add a few cool features of this theme in your older theme like the database/info on the artist.

[@dijem]

Godness! Ty so much!

[@LegitBacKd00rNiNJa69]

I used to be a FLAC and foobar fanatic. However, the thing is that its so nice to just be able to continue where you left off when you're at your desktop, listening at the gym and listening in the car. If foobar could link with your phone that would be legendary and I would never pay another month of bullshit music service

[@JP-gu6oe]

You can do that in > preferences > playback

[@vanscov]

Im an old CaTRoX theme user too. But I think this looks very much better. Though I found this, for another sound codecs (SACD, new for me) working only for this new foobar version. Great work! Thank you very, very, very much.

[@agusindra9935]

Thanks mate 🙏

[@paulguy5368]

I've finally changed the theme I created when I first used Foobar many, many years ago. This is brilliant! Thank you, thank you, thank you... did I thank you?

[@Grifter]

thanks m8 this is clean. it wouldn't work for me on the 64bit version but worked fine for 32bit

[@stefanielinger2527]

I've used this program since you made a video about it all these years back. One of the only few simple pieces of software that are just not matched by anything that runs natively on Linux.

[@itsdeonlol]

Foobar is still AMAZING!!!

[@andyzhou7928]

Cannot thank u more. Cheers!

[@SlackWi]

its only a matter of time before you cant even buy digital albums anymore, everything is going to be subscription based

[@torguy5763]

It will just force some people to pirate.

[@SlackWi]

@Goopy Le Grande but only the music you can’t really acquire elsewhere from small artists. The vast majority of music is only really streamed, so if it isn’t being bought now why would it go back to being bought in the future?

[@goldenultra]

The trend is vinyl is growing faster then streaming. Just watch the news. The Beatles became no. 1 again because of vinyl sales. Steaming has been around a long time, it would have happened already if it were to happen. It is not the new kid on the block. Books are also coming back. Even when I do Amazon prime free trial I do not bother using the streaming app it is just too boring. People still like to buy and hold something it is in our human nature. I mean when streaming started 15 years ago I was its biggest fan. But you slowly shift out of it, when I could not find a song. Listening to music is too individual. People find cracks init then they realise I am not listening to music. I mean just look at the visualizations in this theme. They are quite cool - mind blowing. This guy just quietly put them on and he does not even mention it. Though in the old days before vinyl people would buy the sheet music. People still do this not just piano music, but guitar tabs. People want to play the songs themselves. I am not attacking anybody but music is a big football pitch that is constantly changing.

[@vonantesberg]

Not true. Look at Kanye, Pharrell Williams, Curtis King… the future is creating an unstreamable experience. Normies will catch on eventually like they always do.

[@Ghostdriftx]

lol, I have used this program for years but I wanted to add bpm then I ran across your theme video from 9 years back and then I saw this one so I watched it first but now I need to watch that one because I have a lot of music and sounds that I use to create videos as well as playlist for my stream , pre stream, start, and ending. I knew this was a great program but now I have to explore how much more I can get out of this program.

[@miro007ist]

thanks dude

[@absurddive]

I've been using foobar for a while and always thought of changing the theme And immediately walking back the way I came once I saw the first github theme page lmao This guide makes it A LOT easier. Thank you! I remember trying spotify with the idea of paying for a subscription, but I was immediately reminded I'm Argentinian and that 90% of the music I like is REGION LOCKED :D Great stuff, spotify can suck it.

[@virsuryaircas]

Damn.. what a great video man.. cheers

[@jmarz2600]

The video I needed! I've downloaded and deleted Foobar probably a dozen times. Always seemed overwhelming. AND I too love video game music. Saw your Beyond Good and Evil recording. One of my favorites.

[@JesseStanchfield]

good foobar intro! Do you have any suggestions for syncing playlists (not my entire library) from PC to android? I'm batting 0 with TuneFusion and recall there used to be a Foobar plugin that enabled you to sync right from foobar like 1000 years ago. Thanks again!

[@tonytoes2]

Thanks for a screen guided journey to forbarr.

[@TheAleStuffs]

thanks men

[@Void-ym1lk]

thanks

[@rassbabbo3285]

Your video helped me set up foobar years ago... How about a foobar as remote upnp media server tutorial?

[@VIOLENTSCHEME]

alt + right kb shortcut was hilarious

[@8lec_R]

I too lost it lmao

[@yuri_castro]

THANK U

[@leeyuki1122]

I have a question. After sorting the songs by the date added, can I play the songs in this new order? Currently, when I select 'play', it still plays in alphabetical order.

[@kustomfriend]

Ive been on this channel for a decade now and Im not even drawn to about half the topics. I enjoy your voice and hearing you just nerd out about things. What happened to the other lad? Anthony I think. I miss the duo videos

[@woltergrant]

Favorite visualization from way back was Electric sheep! Hah kinda forgot about it and this brought me back. Can this be added to foobar? If there isn’t already a setup for it, how difficult is it, or is it possible, to create a plugin for a visualization such as this?

[@teksyndicate]

Shpeck comes with this theme and it'll work with any winamp visualization

[@SethAurelius94]

Is there an option to display only the album covers. I want to turn this back into groove since groove is broken.

[@quintit]

that shift + left as global is chaotic lmao.

[@matrixmodulator]

Possible to add a frequency analyser to this? (not the winamp insane visualiser) So apparently if you move files on the hard drive, it keeps the old path and doesnt update... so my library is now full of albums not working and i can't find where to reset the cache properly lol (nevermind i found it, need to delete file in \profile\playlists-v1.4)

[@goldenultra]

You can use other winamp visualizations too😊. But just the new ones, i only got a couple of old ones to work. Though i tried Sound Spectrum visualizations which you have to buy which i installed on winamp so i could play them foobar but it does not work that well because it pops up in a window and not in foobar. Though the included visualizations i quite cool for this theme. Though i cheated i used another program to help me find the art work and fix my tabs a little. Though the library in foobar is missing some albums from my DVD Audio folder. But it did find my music folder of a group of mp4 that i download from yt like many years ago. Why? Because the music videos contained song translations. I had completely forgotten about this folder untill this theme found it. Nothing is perfect but this theme is close if you pro and con this theme on the see saw.😅

[@ColocasiaCorm]

man i need help. I have Eole up and running but it's having trouble identifying all the albums I have. Maybe I don't have them tagged right, but they are all sorted by folder structure. How can I get Eole to display my albums (and their art) based on folder structure?

[@freesaxon6835]

interesting stuff, will foobar stream to my dac via usb? if so will it stream at full capacity ( more than 192)

[@vomitur]

Hey dude, may I ask, what is the win10 skin you're using in this video?

[@unknownrobot]

DarkOne theme still the best skin for foobar but i want to change because it is outdated. That skin looks nice...

[@kot7400]

ahh this is awesome music player, previous i seen foobar as a vanilla music player and i didint know thers a so nice thems for it. Now i want to buy digital albums a dont wanna do pay spotify anymore and realy help artist not corporation

[@friedrichbehrens438]

Hello, what is the different between ottodix an the normal? The zipfiles are different.

[@lapnes2181]

i dont have profile folder

[@weronikakozlowska1049]

How to deal with scaling on 4k TV - because the "buttons" are very very small.

[@radomcrado9614]

Followed it to a T and im still not getting the light switch

[@doritoadict1552]

couldn't find profile folder

[@mister3976]

Thank you for the video.

[@disturbed250]

This seems a bit complicated for a music player in setting up. I'm after something that you simply download and will play all music mp3 and other files already on my PC? Will this player do this?(aka a winamp like replacement).... This seems like a lot of moving stuff about....

[@ugi_art]

Today I tryied and it crashed. The profile folder is not standard anymore in the current version.

[@classnonetype6708]

"Error: Spider Monkey Panel v1.6.1 (NowPlayingPlaylist) include failed: Path does not point to a valid file: C:\Users\vmnst\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000\themes\eole\js\JStheme_common.js File: Line: 1, Column: 1 Stack trace: @:1:1 " :(

[@pabloesteban8576]

when I give it to import configuration and I select the file.fcl it tells me error

[@wvp8465]

Hi Friend!, I can´t put on this fantastic theme on the Foobar 2000 64 bits version for Windows 11, and the 32 bits version doesn´t works very well in the 64 bits machine, it´s there some solution for this issue?, I neither can find the "user componentes" for a 64 bits version, could you help in this?

[@bowieknife]

Does themes work on Mac OS Catalina? I can't find those directories...

[@Oxibase]

This just caused Foobar to crash every single time I open it now. The problem started after selecting the columns UI from the Eole folder. I guess I will need to uninstall and start over.

[@tyler_clarity]

Where can I download the custom theme that you created?

[@teksyndicate]

Forgot to add the link: teksyndicate.com/forget-spotify-the-best-foobar-theme-tutorial-for-new-old-users-this-looks-clean/

[@JustAsPlanned1]

Opening Eole .FCL file crashes my Foobar. Damn. Update: Fixed it by dropping eole themes folder into AppData/Roaming/Foobar folder

[@torguy5763]

\m/ Lamb of God \m/

[@Tarkstuff]

it looks slick! Is it possible to send the music to a music streamer in the network?

[@teksyndicate]

indeed: www.foobar2000.org/components/tag/streaming

[@Tarkstuff]

@@teksyndicate awesome, thanks!

[@380stroker]

I still play CD's. Nothing sounds better. I've done the tests numerous times.

[@pwrmx24]

After downloading Foobar and Eole, then running it I immediately get an error "Failed to load dll...." and it lists 7 different files. Help!

[@NoahAmidei]

I had the same issue and I tried installing it in 32bit and it worked

[@mizutani5138]

How can i remove the lyrics tab?

[@Existence_denied]

I've tried to install this and all I got from es lyrics to ColumnsUI all errors

[@minhdang1535]

how i can install flac cue. thanks .

[@bravosmixtube]

CAN I USE/ADD A SEEKBAR AS ProgressBar?

[@bencasey7023]

I receive error: Spider Monkey Panel v1.6.1.. how to solve this?

[@ud-]

The same here

[@MrBenEye]

Followed your instructions to the T. Like the simple interface (love the winamp visualization, I sure missed it until now. many thnx!), I notice that a few of my "Various Artists" albums foobar2k separates the tracks by single artist. Is there a workaround for this to keeping the album together?

[@goldenultra]

Maybe if you change the artist name to various artists title using a tag program. It should be able to do all songs in one go. The title of the song may contain the artist name. So you keep 2 versions of the various albums, one tagged with no artist name and the original album with the tagged artist.

[@MrBenEye]

Thank you for your help, I'll give it a try.@@goldenultra

[@Jb-fk2yd]

Hey I did exactly as you say in the video and when I load the theme all the fonts are too small to read and overlapped on each other

[@fredericbelangermorin2182]

Same for me, let me know if you find a solution

[@jmssun]

10:01 I see Dragon Slayer - Legend of Heroes you are a man of taste Btw, check out PC Engine’s version. Both I and II have Incredible arrangement from Yonemitsu Ryo

[@DinoZuljic]

black metal \m/

[@taranagnew436]

i can't find the foobar2000theme folder anywhere in my files, plz help

[@taranagnew436]

whenever i goto imort the theme it's in fci and to import I need fth, plz help

[@mopeybloke]

This really doesn't work on a standard installation. Had to reinstall mine in portable mode.

[@gx1tar1er]

Imagine if Foobar2000 is open source and a native Linux support (though you can technically use WINE). It'll be even more customizatable. I always see this program as the Linux of audio player.

[@satviksrivatsav2054]

somebody help: it says "Failed loading component: Not a valid Win32 application."

[@NeroDeamon]

u prolly downloaded 64bit version ....the skin only works for 32bit

[@ColocasiaCorm]

Thanks! Can you do one on georgia reborn?

[@tristen_grant]

Wouldn't it be the same but for that theme?

[@floobadoo99]

I thought this theme looked really nice so i tried it out, but by the time i got it installed its framerate was so slow (like just navigating around dropped it to like 10 fps) and it freezes every 30 seconds. Very dissapointing, but maybe I did something wrong? or does it not work as well with newer versions?

[@denueve_]

same

[@gx1tar1er]

And it looks like MusicBee except unoptimized and can't run on 64BIt

[@coldhanded]

Any way to make ESLyric not suck?

[@jordanpene5279]

For anyone like me who prefers standard install and can't find your "Profile" folder. Copy and paste the Eole, plugin and theme folders here.... C/Users/*Your name*/AppData/Roaming/foobar2000

[@Jordy2136]

Thanks man

[@daghetto101]

lifesaver

[@xxxod]

@@daghetto101 It wasnt there for me so i had to uninstall foobar2000 and reinstall it in a portable version

[@enzolg.]

hero

[@user-jg8hn5pf4l]

thanks

[@1chiTheKiller]

I was all onboard for this until I tried to drag and drop files into Foobar and suddenly with this new layout you just can't do it anywhere. I do this literally all the time when I put albums on my computer and need to edit files all at once, so not being able to do this was a non starter for me. Kinda sucks because I love the look and layout. If they could make it so you could just drag and drop content from an Explorer window into Foobar directly then I'd probably try this again. Also if you could show more file info that'd help. I think I'll stick with the previous layout for now. It's much more plain looking, but it is far more functional.

[@1chiTheKiller]

Ok, it took me a while to figure out how to fix it, but I finally did. Ridiculous nonsense.

[@musio3438]

@@1chiTheKiller ?

[@kael070]

thats one weird issue, never had it happen when i went for a custom theme o.o

[@casanova9227]

thanks man like your set up from where you get sound tracks video games

[@enterchannelname2054]

I like foobar but what's the point when musicbee exists? Not so great tagging, less customization/plugins & the lack of an inbox kills it for me.

[@quas3728]

yeah I'm using musicbee now because this eole skin doesn't have multiple genre tag feature. musicbee has that.

[@randomguyonyoutube5875]

Just tried musicbee, tried this skin called Dark W10, and milkdrop visualizer. I still prefer fb2k + eole. But yeah maybe I just dont care about tagging/plugins... musicbee has more feature and really nice interface for new user tho.

[@vovan_number_one]

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