Awesome Windows 7 videos by Marty Martin

This has nothing to do with Apple, iPhone, foobar or other stuff. Just relax and enjoy!

foo_w7shell 0.2.8

You wanted Aero Peek and Flip3D? Well, you’ve got it.

Personally I think these features are useless for foobar. And a bit buggy:

• Image of the same size as thumbnail looks ugly in Flip3D (I have no idea why MS decided to show thumbnail instead of live preview there).
• Window must to be shown at least once to make Aero Peek working. It’s a common issue for any app.
• Too frequent painting of a live preview image drains a lot of CPU, so it is made not so “live” as it should.
• When window is maximized, there are some glitches with its frame size in Peek mode.

Blame MS for all that stuff

P.S. I’m still on RC, so someone should test it on RTM. I wanna to know if something changed.

foobar2000: WASAPI on Windows7

Looking at Google Analytics I’ve found out that somebody came to this site looking for solution of WASAPI issue. Well, maybe it should be here

On builds before 7068 WASAPI was working as expected. But all newer builds (up to RC1 7100) cause it to throw “unrecoverable playback error: could not open device 88890020″.
I don’t know what exactly does it mean, but I know how to fix it. The default 1000 ms buffer size does not fit for some reason, so you should decrease it – 500 (and less) ms buffer is ok. Note that this number could vary for different hardware.

Well, maybe it’s not a perfect solution, but it does work for now!

foo_w7shell 0.2.7.0

This release introduces new experimental feature: playlist list in jumplist (OMG! A lot of “lists” around.) Now you can change playlist without opening main window – just choose one from foobar’s context menu.

Also there are two new icons for “play” and “preferences”. Hope they’re not very awful…

Go to product page to read more.

Quick download: foo_w7shell 0.2.7.0.

foo_w7shell 0.2.6.2 released

This is minor release. It should solve an issue with thumbnail flipped vertically in late betas (7057).
It also doesn’t crash anymore on foobar2000 update/reinstallation, when foobar runs without creating a window.

Go to product page to read more.

Quick download: foo_w7shell 0.2.6.2.

Windows 7 Shell Integration

Windows 7 shell integration addon (foo_w7shell) is a plugin to utilize brand new interface features like custom preview thumbnails, flyout toolbars and others.

You’d just unpack the plugin to your components directory. It works “out of the box” and adds nice and user-friendly interface features to your favorite player.

If you want, you can disable progress indicator, hide “stop” button from toolbar or perform some other tweaks via settings page. But you wouldn’t find any system settings – it’s as simple as your iPod.

Features:

• Album art in thumbnail
• Play/pause/stop/next track/previous track buttons in thumbnail
• Progress indicator
• Customizable jump lists
• Overlay icon to display play/pause state

Download foo_w7shell 0.2.9.1.

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