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Topic: Foobar2000 for Mac : newbie questions  (Read 1127 times) previous topic - next topic
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Foobar2000 for Mac : newbie questions

Hi there,

I'm in the process of choosing a new music manager and player since I'm feeling extremely unhappy with what Apple has to offer today.
I mean this is a really big deal for me since I have a 7 To music library including hundreds of playlists. I mean I'm not exactly the regular user type. This is why I can't really make a wrong decision here.

My first tests with Foobar2000 made me wonder about so many things…
Here are a few questions.

• I've been really seduced by the fact users had the freedom to customize FB. But it seems the Mac version only leaves a little room for that, right? Real customization is only for Windows users as it seems. Is there any plan to leave this opportunity to Mac users in the future?

• Is there a place where I can find a reference guide for elements to display and options coming with it?
Like :
playlist-picker font-size=20
playlist font-size=20 font-name=Courier
etc.
I'd like to know all the elements I am able to display and how I can customize them.

• Same question about columns like "%year%" etc. I'd like to know all the options I have.
Can we edit the default columns somewhere? Like align : right, etc.

• Is there a small display / miniplayer option?

• What should I do if I want my keyboard space bar to control play/pause?

• I had this experience when importing a (maybe misformated) m3u8 file to create a playlist that made FB crash and not letting it open again. The only solution I could find has been to delete the whole database folder, which is quite scary in the long term. Does this happen often?

• Is FB able to handle HUGE libraries? Or is it getting more and more risky with time?

Thank you for your feedbacks and experience.
Once again, this REALLY REALLY REALLY matters to me ;-)

Harkock999