Foobar Miniplayer

A tiny Foobar 2000 controller for Windows that can sit above other applications in borderless-fullscreen mode.

Features

• Distraction-free operation, a mere 187x40 pixels with optional transparency
• Maintains top-most focus, visible when using other applications including borderless-fullscreen games
• Album artwork display
• Common Foobar 2000 controls
• Customisable colours

Downloads

The most recent release is 0.1.0. A binary is provided on the releases page.

Release 0.1.0

User guide

Installation

1. Close Foobar 2000 before installing the COM automation plugin.
2. Install the Foobar 2000 COM automation plugin.
3. Launch Foobar 2000.
4. Extract the latest release zip.
5. Run the executable FoobarMiniplayer.exe.

Usage

Please refer to this diagram and the bullet points.

0. Current album artwork. Left-click to focus Foobar 2000, right-click to close Foobar Miniplayer.
1. Shuffle button. Left-click to select a random track, this does not affect your playlist order.
2. Previous track button. Left-click to play the previous track in the playlist.
3. Play/Pause button. Left-click to toggle playing/paused state.
4. Next track button. Left-click to skip to the next track in the playlist.
5. Volume slider. Scroll or drag the bar to adjust the volume.
6. Current artist/song marquee.

• Holding middle mouse and dragging moves the player, the chosen position will be recalled at startup.
• Ctrl + C copies the current track information to your clipboard.

Settings

Foobar 2000 Mini-Player can be configured by editting the file config.conf. Restart the program to apply your changes. The configuration options are of the form option=value. The following options are available.

col_bg

The player's background colour. Must be hex notation with a leading #. A colour picker can help you find the hex notation for your desired colour. e.g. col_bg=#1b1b1b

col_fg

The colour used for the player's buttons and text. Must be hex notation with a leading #. e.g. col_fg=#ef810b

alpha

The player's transparency level, where 1.0 is opaque and 0.0 is completely transparent e.g. alpha=0.8

prefer_external

Setting this value to 1 will prefer external over internal album artwork when both exist. e.g. prefer_external=1

position

The on-screen location of the player upon launch. e.g. position=400,600.

Development

Requirements

The following need to be installed before running the program from source.

• Python3
• Git
• Foobar 2000
• Foobar 2000 COM automation plugin (close Foobar 2000 before running the installer)

Running

command denotes commands to be ran in git-bash.

1. Launch git-bash
2. Get the source code - git clone https://github.com/th3-z/fb2k-mini-player.git
3. cd fb2k-mini-player
4. Install the Python requirements pip install -r requirements.tx
5. Launch Foobar 2000
6. Run python FoobarMiniplayer.py

Building

After a successfully running the program it can be build with the command python setup.py build.