Have you gone in and set up your hot keys in FooBar yet? Here's a post that was sent to this list a little while ago with some instructions on how to set up hot keys in FooBar. It's a bit tedious, but if you take the time, you can get FooBar to do pretty much what you want!
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: Tips on using Foobar 2000 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:54:59 -0600 From: Brett Boyer <bboyer...@gmail.com> Reply-To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> This was a message sent from a year or two ago by Christopher. He explains the process quite well. Read on! bb > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Chaltain" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> To set up a keyboard short cut, you can do the following: > > 1) Start FooBar2000 and use control-p to bring up Preferences. > > 2) Arrow down to Keyboard Shorcuts. > > 3) If you tab over about 5 times, you'll end up on the list of the > keyboard shortcuts already defined. > Arrowing down this list will select the different keyboard shortcuts and > give you the chance to edit them. > > 4) Probably the first thing you want to do is tab over once more to the > Add New button. clicking on this button will add a keyboard shortuct to > your list of keyboard shortcuts with none of the values set. > > 5) Shift-tab back to the list of keyboard shortcuts and arrow down to > the bottom of the list. You should hear an entry that has three values > not set. Make sure you do this step or you could potentially be editing > a shortcut you didn't intend to change. I'm speaking from experience here. > > 6) Tab over about three times and you'll end up on the list of all of > the functions you could associate with a shortcut key. For example, > you'll have options like "volume up", "volume down", "seek ahead by 30 > seconds" and "seek back by 2 minutes". This list is huge, so you can tab > over twice to the filter field and type in something like "seek" or > "volume" to get just those items that have that string in them. After > entering a string in the filter field, shift-tab twice to get back to > the subset of functions containing just that string. > > 7) Select the function you want to associate with a shortcut key and tab > over once. This is where it gets a little tricky. You'll hear a more > detailed description of the function you selected, but you're really in > an edit field where you're going to choose the key you want to associate > with this function. Be careful here, if you hit the space bar than the > space bar will be associated with whatever function you selected. > Suppose you chose the function "volume mute" and then you associated the > space bar with this function. Now whenever you hit the space bar in > FooBar2000, the volume will be muted, even when you're typing in the > title of a track. FooBar2000 will warn you when you try to associate a > common place key, such as up, down, left, right, space, ..., with a > function. > > 8) There's a box where it you can make this a global key. I haven't used > this option, but I assume this will let you use that keyboard shortcut > even when FooBar2000 doesn't have the focus. Again, be careful here. > > 9) After setting up a shortcut key you can then arrow over to the list > of shortcut keys to change or review anything you've done. Once you have > the keys set up you want then just tab over to the Close button and > you're done. > > 10) After you've set up some keys, like seek ahead, seek back, volume > up, volume down, ..., go ahead and give them a spin. If you don't like > them, you can always go back and change them. One thing I haven't taken > the time to do is figure out how to have those keys passed straight > through to FooBar2000. So for example, I'll often have to use insert-3 > in JFW to have the next key passed through to FooBar2000. > > I hope this helps. If anyone has any other specific questions, just ask. -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com On 21/12/11 11:20, Casey wrote: > Hi I would like to give foobar 2000 a try for playing MP3 files and the > like. > But I would like to be able to have it be kind of like win amp. > Where you can stop and play and have some control over those features > and even a pause feature would be nice as well. > So how do you make this happen? > Also how can you make foobar open to just a foobar window and not the > play list window that it opens with bye default? > Or is this what it is supposed to do? > > -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
