It finally happened. After over 10 years of service I finally replaced my trusted old, greased-up keyboard with something a little more formidable: a shiny new Logitech Illuminated. It’s simple but elegant, ridiculously slim and, well, illuminated.
A fantastic piece of equipment. It feels great, somewhat like a notebook keyboard. What I particularly like is that all the fancy “multimedia keys” are not separate but accessible through the F-keys and an Fn key (again, like on a notebook). Since I already have a Logitech mouse I didn’t even need to install any additional software. Unfortunately, the multimedia keys such as play/pause and next/previous track do not work with foobar2000. But after some digging through the web I found a solution. Fire up the text editor of your choice and open the players.ini in your SetPoint directory and add this line to the [Players] section (in one line):
foobar2000=wac,foobar2000.exe,{97E27FAA-C0B3-4b8e-A693-ED7881E99FC1},
xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,0,1,Foobar2000
Et viola, foobar and SetPoint become best friends. This works for foobar 0.9.6.1 under Windows Vista x64 (thanks to Zebulon84 from the forum over at HydrogenAudio), it probably won’t work with versions prior to 0.9.5 or Windows XP.
Update: Law brought to my attention that the anti-spam CAPTCHA was broken for some unknown reason. It should work now, sorry for the inconvenience.
What’s the advantage of the Fn key over separate keys that can be configured freely?
ooh! I just realized that I have a Samsung keyboard. I didn’t know that.
What does your foobar look like? You schould make a post about that.
btw. What happened to muchte?
Oh they can be configured freely, nine of them anyway. The advantage is that you don’t have additional keys so your keyboard stays nice and small. I’ve been planning on writing about foobar for a while but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Apparently the CAPTCHA plugin stopped working when I updated to WP 2.7, I’ll look into that tonight.
30″ screen and your keyboard has to be small? Maybe you should just get a bigger desk.