How to make playing track in Foobar2000 more noticeable?

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Published on 2013-06-24T22:56:32Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 16:23 UTC
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The current playing track is signaled only by a very discreet arrow - no bold, no highlight, no different color. The only 'highlighting'happens by selecting tracks.

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In other players the difference between selected tracks and highlighted/playing tracks is obvious.

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Are there some settings - I don't mean skins - that would improve this?

Edit considering my answer below: maybe that line $if(%isplaying%, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?) could be edited to make the track bold or of a certain color?

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