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My Foobar2000 Theme

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Changelog 11-17-2007:

- Better support for compilations: %album artist% is shown in the group header instead of %artist% and the artist name is shown in front of every title if it's a compilation (presuming that your music is tagged correctly)
- Small improvements in the playlist's layout

Changelog 11-12-2007:

- Added reflection effects to the artist and the time remaining (don't forget to download the mirrored fonts)
- The style tag will now be displayed next to the genre (if tagged)

Changelog 11-11-2007:

- Added foo_scrobblecharts to the components, which allows to create playlists from the last.fm charts
- Added foo_uie_queuemanager to the plugins, which shows a panel with the queue if there's at least one item in it
- The artist of the next song will show if it's different from the currently playing one
- Updated to the latest version of the lyric show plugin, because the old one sometimes caused a crach when closing foobar

Changelog 10-10-2007:

- Removed the cover image variable because it obviously didn't work

Changelog 09-27-2007:

- Added a button to clear the playlist
- The cover image can now be set in the user globals (Preferences -> Display -> Panels UI -> User Globals)

Changelog 09-16-2007:

- Since some users had problems with foo_playcount_mod I switched to foo_playback_custom. So please delete the files foo_playcount_mod.dll and foo_playcount_mod.cpp from the components directory when you update to the latest version
- Fixed a bug that occured when changing between circular and square buttons

Changelog 09-15-2007:

- Added a menu button
- Added a volume bar

Changelog 09-13-2007:

- Alternative black progress bar
- Shows the album of the next track if it is different from the currently playing one
- Fixed a bug in the rating buttons

Changelog 09-10-2007:

- Artist names and titles that are too long will now be cut off
- Over-worked progress bar

Changelog 09-09-2007:

- Automatically switches to albumart view after one track (can be disabled)
- Rating, coverdownload, explore directory and properties buttons now follow the cursor
- New font

Changelog 09-07-2007:

- Added an optional rating system for tracks
- Changed the look of the playlist

Changelog 09-05-2007:

- Added an Options page
- New alternative square buttons
- You can switch between Album list panel and Playlist switcher panel
- Added a default image that shows if there is no albumart
- Some small bugfixes

Components used:
Note: all components are already included in the .rar-file

- foo_cwb_hooks
- foo_playback_custom
- foo_run
- foo_ui_columns
- foo_ui_panels
- foo_uie_lyrics
- foo_uie_powerpanels
- foo_uie_quicksearch
- foo_uie_vis_channel_spectrum
- foo_uie_queuemanager
- foo_scrobblecharts
- foo_uie_albumlist

Thanks to the people who programmed these great plugins ;)
For more plugins check the Hydrogen Audio Forum

How to install my theme

First you need to copy all the files from the archive radecke.rar to your foobar2000 directory (i recommend to use a fresh installation). After that you need to download this font and then additionally get the font "Calibri" which i can't provide because of the copyright. But Calibri comes with some Microsoft products like Vista, Office 2007 or the free PowerPoint Viewer 2007. Then you need to download the mirrored fonts for the reflection effects here.

Go to Preferences -> Display and choose Panels UI as the User Interface Module and then go to Panels UI and select radecke.pui as the default layout.

Now you need to configure foo_run for the cover downloader to work. Go to the Preferences and set it up like on the screenshot. If you're using Windows Vista 64 the path has to look like this: "C:/Program Files '('x86')'/foobar2000/...". Notice the apostrophes around the brackets.
After you have done that you can run the Albumart Downloader by clicking the third button from the left (The Albumart Downloader needs Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 to be installed. You can download it here). A new window should open and a search with the currently playing album should start, looking for the cover.

Go to the Preferences again and set the Lyric show plugin up like on this screenshot.

To use the Quicksearch you need to import your music collection to the database. You can do this in the Preferences under Media Library by adding your music folder. After that you have to scan these folders by clicking on the second button from the left. Everytime you add new music to your folder you have to rescan the Media Library so that it can be found using the search panel. From now on you just need to enter the album, the artist, or the song you want to listen to and it appears in a new playlist.

The last thing to do is to set up the Playlist Switcher correctly. So go to Preferences -> Display -> Columns UI -> Playlist switcher -> Colours and Fonts. The font is Calibri, size 8, the background color is rgb:240-240-240 and the text color is rgb:100-100-100. The same patterns can be applied to the album list panel and the queue manager.

If you can't set radecke.pui as the layout it usually helps to deinstall foobar2000 and to delete the whole foobar folder. After that just install it again, unzip my theme and it should work.

If the playlist doesn't look like on the screenshot it might help to make a rightclick on it and go to Sort / Group by -> Artist / Date / Album

If you have any problems installing my theme, questions or constructive criticism send me an e-mail or write into my guestbook

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