Daniel Beardsmore wrote:Muirium wrote:No love for WinAMP?
I still use that sometimes on another computer. I guess I'm a bit ambivalent but foobar2000 is tastefully minimalist. foobar2000 lacks a raise/hide key binding unlike Winamp, so I've used AutoHotkey for that, but instead of hiding it, the window is left on the taskbar.
Actually, you're wrong on both counts (the lack of a generic raise/hide key binding, and the inability to hide to system tray rather than taskbar)! The thing which makes Foobar2000 wonderful is its customisability, and so it's not too surprising that both those tasks can be achieved without external software or plugins of any kind.
1 - adding a generic raise/hide key binding within Foobar
- Go to File -> Preference (ctrl - P)
Navigate to Keyboard Shortcuts
Click on Add New; the bottom frame should activate.
Now either scroll down until you find, or type into the "Filter list by" frame, "Activate or Hide".
Select Activate or Hide, then click on the Key frame at the bottom left.
Enter a suitable key combination (preferably one not used by other applications, as you'll be making this shortcut global so that it works while foobar is out of focus)
Click on the "Global hotkey" tickbox.
Apply, and you're done!
2 - minimising to tray instead of taskbar
- Go to File -> Preference (ctrl - P)
Navigate to Display -> Default User Interface
Tick the "Minimize to notification area" option.
Apply, and you're done!
With both of those carried out, you've a version of Foobar that minimises and pops out of the system tray using a hotkey, without having to use any software other than Foobar to do it.
Hope that's of some use!
On topic - for me, the programs I always install in a new build of Windows are Foobar2000 (which has been my favourite music player since about 2001/2002); 7Zip; and Sublime Text (even nicer than Notepad++, but less portable and will nag you if you don't pay for it).
And, you know, the Office suite because, frankly, there's still no other piece of spreadsheet software which can match Excel for sheer versatility in both working on and displaying data all in a single package, even if the VBA has to be brute-forced on occasion.
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