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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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As a general rule of software, anything that is extremely customizable does tend to require more legwork to make it work for you. foobar2000 is nice, but it's hardly polished from a UI perspective. Learning curves and customization get clunky in a hurry.
foobar2000 is the emacs of music players.
I still use the Windows version on Linux and my Mac. There is no replacing it.
That said, I do not think it is too hard for the average person to get a good usable UI with foobar2000, as long as they don't mind the retro Windows UI style (this is a positive in my book). The DUI editor is pretty intuitive after you spend about 20 minutes plaing around with the sandbox. Foobar2000 2.0 added support for dark mode in Windows which looks really nice, but can be messy if you use any components that haven't also been updated to support it.