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Foobar2000 and TotalCommander are the only pieces of software I ever regretted moving from the Windows ecosystem. Nothing I found on other platforms came even c

Foobar2000 and TotalCommander are the only pieces of software I ever regretted moving from the Windows ecosystem. Nothing I found on other platforms came even close to the level of functionality they provide for their respective classes.

jopsen 5y ago
Try amaroK from KDE, might still be good. I think the 1.x series was the best music player ever. In any case, I just use Spotify these days. Much easier than having a music collection.
- mariusor 5y ago
  Excuse me, but in what world the clean UI and extensibility of foobar2k can be compared to Amarok? (Not to mention that Amarok has been left behind by the KDE community a long time ago for a new kid on the block called Elisa). Not even in its prime (which personally I consider to be in the Amarok 2.X days) did it have half the niceties foobar had. Concerning having a library, I still need one because I buy a lot of sound tracks with my Steam games. Spotify does not have, as an example, the awesome British Sea Power OST for Disco Elysium. (It can be found on bandcamp though: https://britishseapower.bandcamp.com/album/disco-elysium https://britishseapower.bandcamp.com/album/disco-elysium)
madars 5y ago
100% agree. I also miss IrfanView. I ended up replacing foobar2000 with mpd+ncmpcpp for the lightweight experience but it is nowhere near the same. I have not seen any replacements for Total Commander and it doesn't work well enough under Wine so I keep a Windows VM around to use Total Commander over SMB.
majkinetor 5y ago
Double Commander is near 100% clone of TC and cross-platform.
- mariusor 5y ago
  I don't really agree. Total commander has a lot of man hours spent into polishing its exceedingly large feature set. It's extensibility is not really reached by anything. Now that I had to comment about both foobar and TC, I realize that probably why I was so found of them both was their large plugin ecosystem that allowed less mainstream usages for them.
  - majkinetor 5y ago
    DC is developed in last 10 years, so its not young product. TC is developed by single person and has VERY slow development - Ghisler. DC supports TC plugins, and interface is better on lots of things (ie. multi rename tool, config etc.). I am telling you as someone who uses both constantly - the reason I do so is because DC is great but it still have one bug with network path freezing that is very annoying to me so I still use TC for that reason. Some TC plugins don't work fully in DC. That is all that is wrong. Plugin problem is rare and its not that big, but network glitch is bad. The moment it goes away TC goes away from my life too. DC is getting momentum and the more people that support it, the better it will be.
    - mariusor 5y ago
      That's very interesting, thank you for taking the time to reply. I based what I said on trying it sometime in 2007-2008, which looking at the commit history seems to be very close to when it was actually launched. I had no idea it was maintained for all this time, so it definitely warrants a new look. :)
      - majkinetor 5y ago
        Check how same they look, this is the minimal theme I use for both: - DC: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/dcc-unlit https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/dcc-unlit - TC: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/tcc-unlit https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/tcc-unlit You also have there bunch of plugins for both: - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Atcplugin https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Atcplugin

jopsen 5y ago

Try amaroK from KDE, might still be good. I think the 1.x series was the best music player ever. In any case, I just use Spotify these days. Much easier than having a music collection.

mariusor 5y ago
Excuse me, but in what world the clean UI and extensibility of foobar2k can be compared to Amarok? (Not to mention that Amarok has been left behind by the KDE community a long time ago for a new kid on the block called Elisa). Not even in its prime (which personally I consider to be in the Amarok 2.X days) did it have half the niceties foobar had. Concerning having a library, I still need one because I buy a lot of sound tracks with my Steam games. Spotify does not have, as an example, the awesome British Sea Power OST for Disco Elysium. (It can be found on bandcamp though: https://britishseapower.bandcamp.com/album/disco-elysium https://britishseapower.bandcamp.com/album/disco-elysium)

madars 5y ago

100% agree. I also miss IrfanView. I ended up replacing foobar2000 with mpd+ncmpcpp for the lightweight experience but it is nowhere near the same. I have not seen any replacements for Total Commander and it doesn't work well enough under Wine so I keep a Windows VM around to use Total Commander over SMB.

majkinetor 5y ago

Double Commander is near 100% clone of TC and cross-platform.

mariusor 5y ago
I don't really agree. Total commander has a lot of man hours spent into polishing its exceedingly large feature set. It's extensibility is not really reached by anything. Now that I had to comment about both foobar and TC, I realize that probably why I was so found of them both was their large plugin ecosystem that allowed less mainstream usages for them.
- majkinetor 5y ago
  DC is developed in last 10 years, so its not young product. TC is developed by single person and has VERY slow development - Ghisler. DC supports TC plugins, and interface is better on lots of things (ie. multi rename tool, config etc.). I am telling you as someone who uses both constantly - the reason I do so is because DC is great but it still have one bug with network path freezing that is very annoying to me so I still use TC for that reason. Some TC plugins don't work fully in DC. That is all that is wrong. Plugin problem is rare and its not that big, but network glitch is bad. The moment it goes away TC goes away from my life too. DC is getting momentum and the more people that support it, the better it will be.
  - mariusor 5y ago
    That's very interesting, thank you for taking the time to reply. I based what I said on trying it sometime in 2007-2008, which looking at the commit history seems to be very close to when it was actually launched. I had no idea it was maintained for all this time, so it definitely warrants a new look. :)
    - majkinetor 5y ago
      Check how same they look, this is the minimal theme I use for both: - DC: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/dcc-unlit https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/dcc-unlit - TC: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/tcc-unlit https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/tcc-unlit You also have there bunch of plugins for both: - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Atcplugin https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Atcplugin