foobar2000
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Media, Software
Of late I’ve been keeping busy experimenting with foobar2000, an extremely functional music player for Windows. In the process of converting over to foobar from Windows Media Player I also ended up doing a little of re-structuring my music collection.
In the past I had all my music sorted via:
- Music \ [Artist] \ [Album] \ [## Track Name.mp3]
But since I decided to finally incorporate all the Hindi music I have with the English music I realized I had to change things a little. Doing so meant I could also include all the music that I’ve collected as single songs, and not part of an album. In addition to what I already had I also developed an ear for classical music around the time I started using foobar, so I ended up with a structure inside my Music folder like so:
- [Folder] \ [Artist] \ [Year] [Album] \ [## Track Name.mp3]
- Where “Folder” is one of the following six folders, and “##” is the track number.
- \Artists
- All my english music that I have in complete albums falls into this category except for soundtrack releases.
- \Classical
- The Beethoven’s, and Tchaikovsky’s of this world rest within.
- \Hindi
- All my Hindi music, even though the majority of it is all movie soundtracks.
- \Playlists
- Foobar has built in dynamic playlist support, but occasionally it is useful to save a hard (soft?) copy of a playlist.
- \Single Tracks
- All the singles of my youth, I’ve had some of these files for 5 or so years.
- \Soundtracks
- Black Hawk Down, Mary Poppins, Metal Gear Solid, Pirates of the Caribbean, Phantom of the Opera…the list goes on and on.
One of the many things that make me “as happy as a pig in shit”, is the ability to browse my library via “facets”, a dynamic list that sorts using AND and/or OR logic in a hierarchal manner. It’s one of those times when a picture does indeed say a thousand words.
Thanks to Frank Bicking for his work developing the Facets component.
I’m sure I’ll write more on foobar in the future.
