Crossfade

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Crossfading is very easy in foobar (no component to install!)

Just go to Menu>File>Preferences, section Playback/DSP Manager.

In the panel on the right, there are a list of Sound Processing plugins. You can play with them(*).

Select "Crossfader" and send it to the left panel to activate it. You can configure the length of the crossfade.

(*) A cool DSP package is foo_dsp_soundtouch. With this one, you can change easily the pitch, tempo or speed of the playback 8-)

Advanced search syntax comparison

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Foobar can perform advanced searches as Winamp. Here is a table to translate the fields and operators from one to another.

Here is an example of Foobar2000 search syntax:
(%genre% HAS rock AND %date% LESS 2000) OR (%last_played% DURING LAST 2 WEEKS AND NOT %artist% HAS the) OR %genre% MISSING
Ok it doesn't make sense, it's just an example. I think it's self-explanatory. Just in case, it will return all music which: either has "rock" in its genre (alt. rock, classic rock, rock and roll...) and was released before or in 2000 ; or music played in the last 2 weeks and which artists does not contain "the"; or files that have an empty "genre" field.

Fields:

	Winamp	Foobar2000
Filename with path	FILENAME
Filename without path		%filename%
Path		%path%
Length, in seconds	LENGTH	%tracklength% (in seconds)
Artist	ARTIST	%artist%
Album	ALBUM	%album%
Album Artist	ALBUMARTIST	%album artist%
Title	TITLE	%title%
Track number of file	TRACKNO	%track number% or %track%
Genre	GENRE	%genre%
Year	YEAR	%date%
Comment	COMMENT	%comment%
Composer	COMPOSER	%composer%
Disc number of a CD set	DISC	%disc%
File size, in kilobytes	FILESIZE	%filesize% (IN BYTES)
Last known file date/time on disk	FILETIME	?
Containing folder	FOLDER	%directoryname%
Date/time of file imported to library or modified in library	LASTUPD	%added%1
Date/time of last play	LASTPLAY	%last_played%1
Rating value (1-5, or 0 or empty for unrated)	RATING	%rating%
Number of plays	PLAYCOUNT	%play_count% 1
Publisher or record label	PUBLISHER	%publisher%
ReplayGain Album Gain	REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN	%replaygain_album_gain%
ReplayGain Track Gain	REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN	%replaygain_track_gain%
Bitrate (in KBPS)	BITRATE	%bitrate%
Total number of tracks on the disc	TRACKS
Total number of discs in the set	DISCS
1 for a podcast episode, 0 otherwise	ISPODCAST
The name of the channel for a podcast	PODCASTCHANNEL
Date/time when the podcast was published	PODCASTPUBDATE
Sample rate		%samplerate%
Codex		%codec%
Replaygain album peak		%replaygain_album_peak%
Replaygain track peak		%replaygain_track_peak%
Any field		*

¹: component foo_playcount is required. Please see this post.

Operators:

	Winamp	Foobar2000
String or integer equals value	'='	IS
String or integer does not equal value	'!='	NOT …. IS 1
String or integer is less than value	'<'	LESS
String or integer is greater than value	'>'	GREATER
String or integer is less than or equal to value	'<='	NOT …. GREATER 1
String or integer is greater than or equal to value	'>='	NOT …. LESS 1
String contains value	HAS	HAS
String does not contain value	NOTHAS	NOT …. HAS 1
String is similar to value ("the" and whitespace are ignored)	LIKE
String begins with value	BEGINS
String begins like value	BEGINSLIKE
String ends with value	ENDS
(no comparison value required) TRUE if is empty	ISEMPTY	MISSING
(no comparison value required) TRUE if is not empty	ISNOTEMPTY	PRESENT
Before		BEFORE 2
After		AFTER 2
During (ex: DURING 2007)		DURING
During last		DURING LAST 3
		SORT [DESCENDING] BY …
boolean AND two comparisons	&&, &, or AND	AND
boolean OR two comparisons	||, |, or OR	OR
prefix this to an expression for the boolean NOT of that expression	!, or NOT	NOT

¹: Exampe: "NOT genre IS ROCK"
²: Thar argument must be in one of the following formats:YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DD HH, YYYY-MM-DD HH
³: The argument is (number) (time-unit), with (time-unit)=[SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS, or WEEKS]. (ex: DURING LAST 3 DAYS)