garbanzo wrote:foobar and mediamonkey are the best of the best for advanced media management. i think mediamonkey has better features for initial organization, but once you have your main library in good shape, definitely switch to foobar. there are so many plugins, and the entire UI is cutomizable to the point that it can become the perfect media player for your needs.
i'm not sure why you want to start with someone else's config. i assume you're still using ColumnsUI? i think the default UI is more than enough. go find an addon called Facets, that will give you a lot more flexibility. another called FooTextDisplay or something similar will let you show track info and lyrics. just enter Layout Editing Mode and in a few minutes you can shuffle things around to your liking.
also, have a look at their forum, they have a thread full of DefaultUI screenshots where you can get ideas about how to organize.
my current config
Facets work with ColumnsUI? I had both for a while but Facets didn't appear in "Add panel" menu...
Besides this, I've got all these things. And I found Explorer panel to be really comfortable.
Why someone else's?
1. It's easier to modify existing thing than to make my own. This is the main reason.
2. Standard ColumnsUI doesn't look good. It's not as bad as Panels, but not good either.
FooNight that I use now is looking very well (except that it's black
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). I'm not much into looks, but I spend a lot of time in a media player, so it's nice to like the way it looks.
After sleeping with it, I think that FooNight is the way to go. First I have to remove some bling that reduces readability. Then remove spectrogram and put lyrics where it is. Then remove lyrics from where they are already. Then search the foobar forum (and ask if needed), cause I won't find how to do it myself: it doesn't have inline tag editing. Then add Explorer panel.
When it's done, I can use it comfortably. Changing colour and totally changing info displayed in several places can be done later.
P.S. While trying to add url to FooNight, I discovered that in the older version there was FooDay too.
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I'll ask the author to update it.
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