Filed under: Audio, Windows, Freeware
Add Windows 7 taskbar features to Foobar 2000
by Lee Mathews Sep 3rd 2009 at 2:00PM
Those of you running Windows 7 and looking for an alternative player with the same slick taskbar integration Windows Media Player features, Foobar might be just the thing.
Drop in the Windows 7 Shell Integration component, and you'll be able to control playback right from the taskbar via the thumbnail preview. Album artwork is also displayed, as is a progress bar. You can also pin playlists to the Foobar jumplist and access preferences with two-click ease.
One thing I'd like to see added is an area on the jumplist for recent tracks. Maybe we'll see that worked in to a future build.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Donald B.Everson said 4:15PM on 9-03-2009
would be great if knew where components directory was to drop the dll into.
some of us are dummy's like me
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Lee Mathews said 4:23PM on 9-03-2009
pro tip - look in program files\foobar and see if there's a components folder. ;)
Donald B.Everson said 4:27PM on 9-03-2009
lol awesome. thanks. i was looking all around system 32 files and stuff. That was to simple to consider....lol
Steve said 5:02PM on 9-03-2009
But foobar2000 has it built in from the get-go. And I actually prefer it, despite the lack of the progress indicator. It has all the standard buttons on the toolbar (Stop, Previous, Play/Pause, Next, but most importantly the Random button I use all the time). And I personally think these buttons look better along the bottom:
http://dot-totally.co.uk/steve/foobar-win7.jpg
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Lee Mathews said 5:04PM on 9-03-2009
Steve, does it need to be activated? I just installed it on a Win7 Ultimate machine to test, and I don't have any playback controls, album art, or anything - just the normal thumbnail preview on hover.
Steve said 5:07PM on 9-03-2009
Oh actually, maybe its part of Columns UI (which I always install as soon as I have foobar). I forget thats not actually how foobar starts first place.