After looking at my favorite music apps I realized I needed a way to get better information about the colors contained in the artwork. When I started development, I created around 10 different color “themes” which were mostly unsatisfying due to the inability to accurately select one that matched the current artwork. My goal was to create a modern, minimalist theme that rewarded heavily tagged libraries.

In 2017 I began doing a bunch of research into different music apps/players and then sat down with Photoshop and sketched out what I thought a more current “fanart” style theme could look like. I had added a lot of features and fancy logos, but ultimately it just wasn’t that pretty or fun to use. It was probably the first “fanart” style theme around.

I forked that code base (some vestigial remnants still remain to this day) and began the work of turning it into a piece of eye-candy. It was based on a HTPC theme written for WSH Panel. I began working on the precursor to Georgia back in 2012.

Endlessly customizable so you aren’t stuck with how I think things should look.

Automatic upgrade checks so your install of Georgia is never out of date.

“Hyperlinks” which can create playlists based on an Artist, Album, Genre, Record Label, or Year.

Visual representation of a tracks lifetime in your library and when exactly you’ve played it.

Vinyl friendly! Georgia can handle vinyl tracknumber style displays (A1, B3, etc.) and show vinyl disc art as well.

Georgia is a “fanart” based theme and can display artist logos, label logos and country flags for appropriately tagged files.

Suitable for use on TVs as the centerpiece of your home theater listening experience… but also works great on desktop PCs as well.

Dynamic theme colors based on your album artwork.

My hope is that Georgia provides a modern take on the joy of holding a vinyl sleeve or looking through a CD booklet while the music plays.ĭark Mode: Light Mode: Gallery of images here with explanation of some of the features. It can be run in a window and it resizes pretty well, but it usually looks best when run maximized to show off all your big beautiful artwork. Over time it evolved to add a playlist, library view, and other features which make it perfectly suitable for using on a desktop as well. It’s original purpose was to be used on a HTPC so it has large album artwork, plenty of logos and other eye candy. Georgia is a theme for foobar2000 designed to change dynamically based on album art.

Foobar2000 themes