

Now invert the selection, use the 'Selection -> Soften' with parameters of your liking, and remove it using 'Del' key. Zoom in, and start the selection precisely where the current one ends, and then resize it to fit width and make it higher. To do this, you'll have to select 'Add to selection' in the toolbox instead of 'Select'. After that, use the 'Selection tool' to make the selection higher while keeping the same width. To make the fading effect, you'll have to select your image (Ctrl+A) and then use 'Selection -> Make smaller' with your choosen amount of pixels. You can now merge these layers and save the file as.xcf and then export it to. Basically it's just simple shadow to make it look better on light backgrounds. Now you can press the eye button next to invisible layer to make it visible again and see how it looks now. After that unlock alpha channel again, go to 'Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur', choose about 5-10 and click OK. To make it look good on light background you'll have to duplicate the layer, move it under your first image (it doesn't really matter :P), lock alpha channel by clicking the small checkerboard button located above layers, press Shift and the eye button to make the only selected layer visible, and paint it all black using Brush, or some other tool. After that, press the 'center' button and then OK. To do so, go to 'Image -> Resize canvas', and make it 10px higher and wider. This part is optional, and I assume you know the basic functions of GIMP, in which we'll make background and fading.įind some nice looking picture on the internet or make your own and crop it to any size you like (image in example is 256x96px and the graphic itself is 246x86) and I recommend you to leave at least 5px from each side, as I did. But what about this fancy background image and fading text? After you've done that, click OK and place your text where you like it, and that's it! It just works :)ĥ.

Set it up how you like it, select 'Use Custom Text Extents' and select the file which you've set in Now Playing Simple. Setting up OBS to work with foobar2000Īt first you have to create a 'Text' source. I've just left it empty so nothing is shown.Ĥ. In 'On exit:' field you can type the string that has to be displayed when foobar2000 is not running.
#NOWPLAYING DLL FREE#
If you want your own formatting, feel free to write here and I'll write it for you :) If there's no 'Artist' tag in your song it displays only 'Title', and when playback is stopped it doesn't display anything. It displays 'Artist - Title' when something is played or paused and 'Artist' tag is available.
