foo ui columns

foo ui columns is a graphic user interface which you can add to the foobar2000 audio player. To add it, all you have to do is copy it into the components folder of the installed application.

It displays the playlist, genre, artist and album information in neatly organized columns. The tracklist is placed beneath the columns and in case you want to see more of it, all the sections of the interface and resizable. This way, you can hide one of the columns if you don’t need it.

The tracks can be sorted by artist, title, album, date and song length. If it exists, the application is capable of displaying the cover that is attached to the track. In case you need more functions, the right click context menu is always available.

From it, you are able to add a selected track to the playback queue, open its containing folder and add tags. You are capable of choosing the MP3 tag types, manage attached pictures or attach them.

As far as playback is concerned, it’s smooth and you get all the standard buttons for play, pause, stop, back and forward, as well as an eject button for your CD drive.

With foo ui columns you get access the conversion feature as well. You are able to re encode the audio files to formats such as AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WavPack, FLAC, MP3, WAV, Opus. Wave 64 and AIFF.

From the settings section of the application you can apply changes to the interface’s colors and fonts, as well as for the playlist switcher and view. Going into the details of all the change categories, you can see that foo ui columns can be customized to fit a lot of needs that might occur.

In closing, foo ui columns can be a good alternative to the standard layouts that foobar2000 offers.