• leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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      6 months ago

      The Foo is obviously from Foobar. Google translate says “fuyin” is “copy” in Chinese, which I guess could make sense since it’s a copy of foobar2000. It also says “fooyin” is “I’m sorry” in Somali, which is probably a coincidence because that makes no sense.

      EDIT: One of the screenshots in the README is in Chinese so yeah that’s probably it.

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        6 months ago

        Very close! Name is based on the Chinese 福音 (fúyīn) meaning good news, with foo coming from foobar as you correctly deduced.