fooyin (a foobar2000 clone)

stekte

I will try it but i don't think i will use it. for me old habits are stronger than new interests.

BruceElephant

Solarmass Oh well, if it works for you. : )

BruceElephant

murbert Hmm .. I installed DeaDBeeF and I checked to see if it has a Directory View but I could not find it. Can you please tell me how can I enable that?

edit: I'm not saying that I will use it though, it is GTK and I use Qt.

murbert

BruceElephant My bad. Folders can be added, and changes to the folder are reflected in the playlist. There isn't really a file browser as such

BruceElephant

Staudey That doesn't look good! That's not the spirit of FOSS.

Staudey

BruceElephant Well, it could conceivably mean that they just retain the rights to the name and other trademarks, and obviously control the main repository, but still make the code available under a FOSS license for anyone wanting to modify/fork it. But I don't have high hopes.

Staudey

Staudey Ah yes, here we go

BruceElephant

murbert Oh, I thought I was retarded for not being able to find the feature. Thank you for clearing that up for me! : )

User_007

Foobar ist the best music player in my opinion, always wished there would be a official linux/gnu version of it. Fooyin as a clone looks very interesting.
I'm happy to have deadbeef in the repo which I use as the main music player on budgie and kde. Could imagine switching to fooyin on KDE pretty much.

BruceElephant

User_007 I have the same opinion. I have been waiting for a clone for a very long time. Thank you for your support! : )

User_007

Installed and tested it a bit on my EndeavourOS Plasma virtual-machine.
It's pretty cool and really gives you the foobar feeling but to be honest it needs some further development to become my main music player.
Cue und Replaygain support and audio conversion are one the roadmap, which is nice. A DSP manager is also something I miss.
Think I was hyped a bit too fast, sorry. For my taste to early to take this into the repo but would definitly a good thing to have Fooyin on the radar.
Took a Screenshot - like it clean und simple, so mot much to see 🙂

BruceElephant

@User_007 Bloody hell! Could you not have maximized the app before taking that screenshot? : )

Anyway, I like it! Does the Directory Browser work? Can you customize de GUI? Can you move it's elements around?

BruceElephant

18 Likes? Why? : )

codewizard1975

BruceElephant

My guess is they're some of the current programming staff that would be no longer needed if it was to become open source.

BruceElephant

codewizard1975 Why would they not be needed? If the app would go open source they would be free to stay and contribute. : )

murbert

BruceElephant You want to get between a man and his paycheck and wonder why they like the fact that they'll still get paid?

codewizard1975

It's the difference of either paying 40 people $120k+ salaries or paying 10 people 80k salaries and having 100's of people work for free. The 40 people don't want to lose their jobs and have some leverage they're using to keep it from going open source.

BruceElephant

codewizard1975 So, like, Microsoft employees. : )

User_007

Updated this to 0.4.5. Pretty cool but still needs cue support 😛
Didn't test the directory browser but seems to work. UI customization is a bit confusing. I think horizontal und vertical splitters are mixed up!? Sometimes when I want so remove a specific element, anything gets removed. Thats a bit annoying.

Window size and position resets when I minimize by tray icon.

brent

User_007 that looks modest and low-key the way I like it. no bells no whistles. Beethoven-approved 🙂

ludouzi

User_007 Thanks for testing! Cue support is underway and will be in the next release.

Layout editing works by editing the widget under the cursor and its parent splitter. If you remove a splitter, it will remove all of the widgets inside. I'll be putting out some documentation on this to make it clearer.

Window size should be remembered when storing from tray, so I'll look into that.

BruceElephant

Thank you @User_007! <3

edit: I posted a package request earlier today.

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