Biography

Feature rich biography plug-in for foobar2000

FEATURES

Downloads and displays artist photos, biographies and reviews from last.fm, allmusic and wikipedia
- main artist, similar artists, contributing artists, performers and composers etc
- main album, top albums, tracks and classical compositions
- history
Lyrics: synced and unsynced
Textreader
Item properties
Nowplaying display
Layout presets: top, left, right, bottom and overlay. Fully customisable with freestyle layouts
Themes: user interface, dark, blend, light and random
Custom colours and fonts
Filmstrip: top, left, right, bottom or hidden
Image+text, image only or text only
Drag resizing of image and filmstrip (press Ctrl while panel has focus)
Custom title format for field remapping and save locations
And more...

REQUIREMENTS:

foobar2000
Spider Monkey Panel 1.5.2+
IE9 or later
FontAwesome
Segoe UI Symbol
- should be present on most windows systems
- if you're on win7 and symbols don't render properly you can download an updated version that includes newer symbols here

INSTALLATION

Install as a package as follows.

New install or update:

Add a spider monkey panel to foobar2000 if required
Close any instances of windows explorer using foobar2000 folders or subfolders
Right click the spider monkey panel while pressing the windows key + shift
Choose configure panel
On the script tab ensure package is selected
Open package manager if it doesn't open automatically
Import the package

SUPPORT

The official discussion thread for Biography is located at HydrogenAudio and that's a great place to go for questions and other support issues.

Screenshots

Top layout with dark theme

Lyrics display with overlay layout and dark theme

See textreader & lyrics tab help for set-up tips

Various layouts

Amalgamated sources

Item properties

Enable on textreader & lyrics tab.

Standard grouping

Alternative grouping