

It's pretty much a multi-purpose UI kit for fb2k.Īfter you've finished installing Columns UI and set it as your default UI, you will be presented with this screen. It improves much of fb2k's user experience, and it also adds thumbnail toolbars to your taskbar, without any additional components needed. When I started transitioning to fb2k, a friend of mine recommended that I use Columns UI, and I loved it at first sight. The default fb2k interface is fine, but unfortunately it lacks some pretty important features, like customizable playlist views, and most importantly, thumbnail toolbars with playback controls like most other music players have. Each section will outline the required components for you to download and follow along. Sure, this might not be the best setup there is, but at least it makes your fb2k experience more bearable. Here's a guide on how to make your fb2k look more like the one above. After hours of tweaking, I finally managed to pull it off, and my fb2k installation now looks beautiful. And with fb2k's bare, customisation-focused experience, it does certainly look unappealing to the casual music listeners, and it really involves a lot of tweaking to really improve the user experience. Of course, I did initially run into some concerns that it won't be able to do the things that I always found useful on iTunes. I switched over from iTunes, as I was getting tired of the bloat it has become, and I have never turned back ever since. Foobar2000 (fb2k) is the most lightweight, powerful, customizable music player I've ever used.
