I've been using foobar for many years now and I'm very happy with it. Nevertheless, from time to time I take a look at other music-players to see how they are doing. Unfortunately the choice isn't as big as one might suggest and mediamonkey is pretty much the only alternative to foobar - at least for me - but there are some issues, for the most part peanuts, preventing me from using mediamonkey as my main-player.
First of all, I like a clean and consistent UI. Since foobar uses the native Windows-UI toolkit and is also very customizable it looks pretty much like a native Windows-application. Here's a screenshot of my foobar-config:
Mediamonkey on the other hand has a lot of glitches and annoying UI-behaviours.
- When selecting a song in the playlist it's highlighted like this:
but in the preferences-dialog or in the library it looks like this:
(tabs behave the same way) There's an additional dotted line drawn, which makes it look a bit weird and out of place.
- When selecting/switching a song with the vitreous-theme enabled the player-controls at the bottom start flickering.
- the highlighting of songs in the library-view with non-skinned mm looks out of place:
- selected tabs at the top of the screen have a black line seperating them from the rest of the UI, whereas selected tabs at the cover-UI element behave normal and merge fluently with the UI:
- resizing the playlist or library is very choppy and takes, depending on the theme, a lot of cpu-power
These are the issues I've noticed so far. I will use mm more extensively the next days, concentrating myself on the database, tagging etc., and will give you my feedback.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
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