wil-b / biography

Feature rich biography plug-in for foobar2000

Biography

Feature rich biography plug-in for foobar2000

FEATURES

• 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...

REQUIREMENTS:

• 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

INSTALLATION

Install as a package as follows.

New install or update:

1. Add a spider monkey panel to foobar2000 if required
2. Close any instances of windows explorer using foobar2000 folders or subfolders
3. Right click the spider monkey panel while pressing the windows key + shift
4. Choose configure panel
5. On the script tab ensure package is selected
6. Open package manager if it doesn't open automatically
7. Import the package

SUPPORT

The official discussion thread for Biography is located at HydrogenAudio and that's a great place to go for questions and other support issues.

Screenshots

Top layout with dark theme

Lyrics display with overlay layout and dark theme

See textreader & lyrics tab help for set-up tips

Various layouts

Amalgamated sources

Item properties

Enable on textreader & lyrics tab.

Standard grouping

Alternative grouping