Hi everyone!

I am trying to find a good Foobar2000 theme for monitoring my DAW rendered mixes and masters. Ideally it would be setup for the most optimal highest sound quality, with a very basic, clean and minimal GUI. No fancy nothing. I only need the most basic important visualization monitoring aspects like start/stop, time, volume, playback seek bar, spectrum, VU meter etc and then just the text of song/file type metadata information.

I have tried several times to design it myself but for some reason I cant make the visualizations big in the GUI or drag elements around like I want. When I add stuff it goes where Foobar wants it to go, its so small its useless and I cant move it even with the toggle to do so enabled.

Everywhere I search I find so many themes with silly graphics and "cool" designs, which I dont need any of that. I just need one, like clinical almost, made for studios and producers to playback songs and check everything looks and sounds good. I think you guys know what I mean?

Im surprised there isnt a thread to share themes here on a music forum, so maybe this could help others too.

Thank you.

 

Hello @888, i am not a Foobar user, maybe these are useful:

foobar2000 TripleQ theme --> https://github.com/raphaelquast/foobar2000_TripleQ
Animus Theme (Performodule) --> https://performodule.com/2019/10/20/free-foobar2000-theme
Eole Theme (open‑source, classic pick)--> https://github.com/Ottodix/Eole-foobar-theme

 

Hi.
I can send you my theme. I think it is minimal and clean.
Cheers!

 

i had to do more editing to this but it was a good start! Thanks!

https://ibb.co/DHrj2dRL




I dont see the image I attached here, can you?

@Margaret I am going through the audio settings and there are a few things you might want to look at so Foobar doesnt process or change the original file quality. Such as ReplayGain Scanner - Downsample is switched on. And on Playback - Source Mode / Processing I changed those to "none".

Can anyone think of others to change so the audio is exactly as the original file render from DAW?

Does anyone know if there is way to extend the low freqs down all the way? it stops at 50 which is too high to see the sub content. I tried to extend the number of bands but still stops at 50

I cant resize the window for some reason, do you know how to unlock the window to do that?

 

Last edited: Oct 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM