I like software that just works. If it works well and uses minimal resources all the better. That’s why I like foobar 2000. I’m using it to play all of my songs and it’s using a slim 20MB. And yes, it works under Windows 7 64bit.

But one feature that was missing was the ability to show my fellow MSN (or Windows Live Messenger) users what I was currently listening to. Not that anyone cares, but it bothered me that both iTunes and Media Player could provide this information but foobar couldn’t.

There’s a plugin just for this reason – it works well under 0.9.6.9 so far.

Download this: http://it.thelibrarie.com/utilities/foo_msnalt.dll
Put the file in your foobar 2000 components folder (in my case it’s C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar2000\components)
Restart Foobar2000

You should now notice that MSN will display the song (assuming you set it to do so) in your status. Rock on.