What the heck is Foobar?
The complete name of Foobar is foobar2000. It’s a advanced audio player for Windows platform. Some of it’s features are as follows:
- Fully customizable user interface.
- Audio formats supported natively: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
- More audio formats are supported through 3rd party plugins.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Low memory consumption.
Okay, show me how it looks?
Eww !!! It’s too ugly.
Well the default is look is not so catchy. But have a look at following snapshot where foobar2000 is configured with 3rd party plugins.
Shocked !!! 
Okay, I also want it. Tell me how?
Getting Foobar
Get the latest version of foobar2000 from it’s official website. Click here to go to it’s official website.
Getting plugins
Well, here is the list of plugins which I’m using.
| Component | Name | Version |
| Core (2008-02-28 03:31:28) | foobar2000 core | 0.9.5.1 |
| foo_albumlist.dll (2008-02-23 00:18:32) | Album List | 4.2 |
| foo_audioscrobbler.dll (2007-12-07 17:34:36) | Audioscrobbler | 1.3.15 |
| foo_cdda.dll (2007-12-14 04:08:24) | CD Audio Decoder | 2.1.2 |
| foo_converter.dll (2008-02-23 00:18:20) | Converter | 1.1 |
| foo_cwb_hooks.dll (2007-06-12 14:14:24) | cwbowron’s title format hooks | 1.2.5 |
| foo_dop.dll (2008-03-23 04:46:32) | iPod manager | 0.5.6.36 |
| foo_dsp_std.dll (2008-02-23 00:18:48) | Standard DSP Array | 1.0 |
| foo_infospect.dll (2008-02-01 21:02:58) | Infospect | 1.0.3 |
| foo_input_std.dll (2008-02-23 00:19:48) | Standard Input Array | 1.0 |
| foo_playback_custom.dll (2007-09-16 00:54:37) | Playback Statistics Custom | 1.4.3 |
| foo_playcount.dll (2007-10-16 02:08:06) | Playback Statistics | 2.0 |
| foo_rgscan.dll (2008-02-23 00:17:56) | ReplayGain Scanner | 2.0.3 |
| foo_run.dll (2008-01-17 20:32:42) | Run services | 0.3.4 |
| foo_ui_columns.dll (2006-11-22 13:05:24) | Columns UI | 0.1.3 beta 1v7 |
| foo_ui_panels.dll (2007-07-18 12:42:00) | Panels UI | 0.14.12 beta |
| foo_ui_std.dll (2008-02-23 00:18:24) | Default User Interface | 0.9.5 |
| foo_uie_albumart.dll (2007-10-23 22:39:18) | Album Art Panel | 0.2.7 |
| foo_uie_albumlist.dll (2007-06-11 18:43:53) | Album list panel | 0.2.3 beta |
| foo_uie_graphical_browser.dll (2008-03-02 07:01:47) | Graphical Browser | rev009 |
| foo_uie_lyrics.dll (2008-01-22 16:22:49) | Lyric Show Panels | 0.3.2.1 Beta 3 |
| foo_uie_playlists_dropdown.dll (2007-02-08 14:26:16) | Playlists Dropdown | 0.6 alpha 3 |
| foo_uie_powerpanels.dll (2007-08-05 12:32:38) | Seek Panel | 0.1 |
| foo_uie_queuemanager.dll (2006-12-17 03:21:36) | Queue manager panel | 0.2.3 |
| foo_uie_quicksearch.dll (2006-10-15 18:56:24) | Quick Search Toolbar | 2.8j |
| foo_uie_trackinfo.dll (2008-03-23 18:36:24) | Track info panel | 0.8 |
| foo_uie_vis_channel_spectrum.dll (2007-08-11 21:19:46) | Channel Spectrum panel | 0.06b2 |
| foo_uie_vis_projectm.dll (2006-10-04 22:26:46) | projectM visualization (Panel) | 0.4 (SSE2) |
| foo_winamp_spam.dll (2006-03-26 16:26:52) | Winamp API Emulator | 0.90 |
You can download plugins from Hydrogen Audio Wiki or from this link. To install a plugin, just copy it to components directory of foobar. Then restart the foobar, your plugin would be detected by foobar.
I installed the plugins but I’m still not getting that kick-ass look 
Don’t bother. You have to configure the plugins to get that look. To configure the plugins, open foobar and press CTRL+P. A new window will open up as shown below.
Click on Columns UI link on left hand side tree structure. Now go to Layout tab on right side and press New as shown above. You will end up with something like as shown above. Now right click on Columns Playlist and change it to Horizontal Splitter as shown below.
Again click on Horizontal Splitter and insert a new Horizontal Splitter as shown below.
Again right click on Horizontal splitter jut inserted and insert a new Vertical splitter. You will end up with something like this.
Now right click on Vertical splitter and insert Album art plugin as shown below.
Again right click on Horizontal splitter and insert Lyrics Show plugin. After doing these steps you will end up with something like this.
Now keep adding Horizontal and Vertical Splitters as well as components until you are satisfied with the look. Below I’m giving the configuration which I’m using.
Well I hope that after doing these steps you will get a nice looking Foobar. If you stuck somewhere, try Googling.
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