Much as I love the music flowing from my laptop into my amplifier, I found it hard to bring myself to like the cold, sterile interface of my computer’s audio player. That is until I found a way to add analog VU meters to my foobar2000 music player.
The meters do not in any way enhance the sonic qualities of the music files being played on the laptop but they certainly look cool and add a nice sort-of-analog touch.
As with everything related to tweaking foobar, adding the VU meters to the player isn’t very straightforward but this page on head-fi.org explains how you can do it. Above all, have patience. The greatest strength of foobar – the capability to tweak it so it looks and sounds exactly the way you want it – is also one of its most frustrating aspects for those like me who are noobs when it comes to tech.
This page on head-fi has additional ways to customise the look of your foobar player. Happy skinning.
Studio Bene Sonus 
Hey, have you gotten into customising with Facets or ColumsUI? (I’m using Facets, drop me a few lines if you wanna see some screen shots of what I have set up in Foobar2k!)