foo dockable panels

foo dockable panels is an addon for for foobar2000 that enables you to create an unlimited number of floating panels and attach them to the main window of the popular audio player.

Installing the plugin in foobar2000 is a simple task, since all you have to do is move the downloaded DLL file into the 'Components' folder. The plugin can be quickly accessed via the 'View' menu, which enables you to create a new panel with just a click.

foo dockable panels can prove useful in various situations. For instance, you can use panels in order to display the lyrics of the song that is currently playing in foobar2000, which enables you to conduct karaoke sessions at home.

However, in order to do so, a lyrics extraction plugin is required. Actually, any information that you might want to place in a panel requires a specialized component, activated using the right-click menu in a panel.

As mentioned above, there is no restriction on how many panels you can create, so you can have one panel with the lyrics and the other with song details. Panels can be attached either to the main window of the application or to each other.

There are various customization possibilities that this plugin offers. As such, you can hide the title bar of the panel window, hide its 'close' box, customize its title or remove the window frame. Panels can be collapsed near the main window of foobar2000 in order to avoid occupying desktop space when not used.

foo dockable panels can prove useful in karaoke sessions, since it can work alongside lyrics extraction addons in order to read song lyrics. By keeping the panels docked to the main window of the audio player, it provides information at a glance about the playing song.