Not much body to this post but I’m looking for suggestions for Foobar skins that are visually pleasing but informative and powerful enough to handle and navigate through a large music library.
Let me be the first to suggest the DarkOne skin, probably the most popular of them. Version 4 is the newest, but I prefer Version 3.1.
Completely agree, although there's a 4.x minor update that I prefer over the regular 4.0. Also, it's pretty easy to tweak it to your liking if you're willing to get into foobar's scripting language a bit.
Yes, I tweaked my skin quite a bit as well. Though I have to admit, I didn't find it easy at all. It was mostly trial and error for me. I probably should make an effort to really get into Foobar's scripting language.
Thanks for the recommendation for the DarkOne skin and link. Worked perfect. Great instruction, easy to follow and install. Most important looks great!
There's a huge foobar thread here with a lot of posts by the DarkOne guy ... My Foobar setup with pics - Computer Audio
Fair play for perseverance above but I gave up on this after 15 minutes of faffing. Firstly having to install ColumnsUI from somewhere, then the Dark Theme. Then the realisation that I have to install a further 11 plugins to get the Dark Theme config file to install. No Thanks. No wonder Foobar gets a bad rap in its usability, it shouldn't be this hard to install a skin ffs
Did you read the installation instructions in the ZIP file? A very clear step-by-step guide that will get you up and running in about 10 minutes. BTW, everything you need is in that ZIP file. No need to track down components.
I cannot for the life of me follow the install instructions. Makes zero sense to me. Sucks there isn't just a one click option.
foobar stores component files in two different folder locations, one for the default components and another one for "optional" user-installed components. Looking at that second folder (in your Windows user folder under AppData/Roaming/foobar2000) should help you understand where the various Dark One files need to go.
1. In Foobar, File → Preferences → Display and choose Columns UI as your User Interface Module. 2. Restart foobar 3. Run the DarkOne4 .exe file (you may have to rename the file extension from .7z to .exe first) 4. Import the file DarkOne4 .fcl from the folder ...\foobar2000\themes\DarkOne4 via: File →Preferences → Display → Columns UI → Main tab → FCL importing and exporting → Import
