[pjc50]

> I'm not sure what kind of magic it uses, but the second I put new files in directories where my music is, foobar2000 sees it

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/obtain... ; the Linux equivalent is "inotify".

> I press 'o' on a track and it opens a file explorer in the location where the track is located and it also selects it

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13680415/how-to-open-exp...

On Linux, you'd have to do some kind of GNOME integration I am not familiar with. The Windows shell integration is a very handy API, although you have to do the usual digging for explanations and examples.

[totetsu]

i always just used foobar in wine. I wonder if its so quick when doing so.

[fatboy93]

It is absolutely bonkers how well foobar works under Wine.

I too have a large library and foobar just picks it up immediately.