Feature rich biography plug-in for foobar2000
- 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...
- 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
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
The official discussion thread for Biography is located at HydrogenAudio and that's a great place to go for questions and other support issues.
See textreader & lyrics tab help for set-up tips
Enable on textreader & lyrics tab.
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