Get Windows 7 Taskbar Features For Foobar2000
Posted September 21, 2009 – 12:41 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks
Recently we showed you how to get Windows 7 taskbar features such as jump lists, thumbnail preview with play, stop, previous and next features for Winamp. As many of you might be using another popular player Foobar2000, here is a similar plug-in that adds the above features to Foobar2000.
You need to place a dll file in Foobar2000 components folder to get all taskbar features. After downloading the Windows 7 Shell Integration plug-in file from the download page, you need to extract it to the Components directory. That is, extract the zip file containing “foo_w7shell.dll” file to %WinDir%\Program Files\foobar2000\components folder.
Features:
# Displays album art in thumbnail
# Play/pause/stop/next track/previous track buttons in thumbnail
# Displays progress in thumbnail preview
# Customizable jump lists
# Overlay icon to display play/pause state
If you are using Foobar2000 on Windows 7, then this is a must have plug-in to utilise Windows 7 taskbar features.
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