Installing components into Foobar2000

We have two kinds of components in Foobar2000 (FB): manual install (MI) and automatic install (AI). The manual install are usually placed inside a zip file and are named like foo_something.dll and other component are component_name.component. Although AI can be installed automatically that stands only for the installed FB and not for the portable version. My preferred way is that I always make install manually.

We install MI components by adding them into Foobar2000/components folder (.dll file, not the zip file). And AI components by installing through the FB program. I will show it how, it's not difficult but it's a different process.

Installing .dll components into Foobar (MI)

Components preference page after full install is selected during the installation process looks like this:

I have downloaded components and extracted them from the zip file.
I will add ColumnsUI panel and dockable panel .dll files into Foobar2000/components folder

The components I will add:

Into this folder:

After adding components our folder looks like this:

And our components panel in the Foobar looks like this:

Since we installed the ColumnsUI panel we need to choose user interface on the first Foobar run

And we can pick any layout from the following menu or hit cancel

Installing .components into Foobar (AI)

When we open the Foobar and press Ctrl+P we will get Preferences panel. I clicked on components sections and got a window like this one:

We only see greyed out components because we have only MI components. When the AI component is installed it will have normal black colour. For this purpose I will install Masstagger component for which I will make blog post later.

We can skip this step by double clicking on the component, but it will install only to the installed Foobar instance, not to the portable instance. So if you are using portable Foobar don't skip this step.

After installing we need to hit Apply button to finish installation and we need to restart the program. This is done instantaneously and will go to our components panel again:

Soon I will cover Masstagger component. :D

If you would like to try the program you can download it and install it
from the official page: http://www.foobar2000.org/
or you can download and extract customized Foobar2000 from these links:
       Foobar2000 @ ZippyShare or
       Foobar2000 @ Google Drive