A pole to end it all: Foobar vs. Winamp

[TallBill]

Back when I had foobar it didn't play wma's which I happen to have a decent amount of. No clue about it now, but at my last knowledge I liked winamp better.

 

[UglyCasanova]

I use iTunes.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Back when I had foobar it didn't play wma's which I happen to have a decent amount of. No clue about it now, but at my last knowledge I liked winamp better.

foobar now plays WMAs and everything else under the sun.

 

[ShOcKwAvE827]

i just tried foobar... does it take forever if you drag and drop files into playlist to read the tags???.... geeez

 

[Schadenfroh]

Windows Media Player 10

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: ShOcKwAvE827
i just tried foobar... does it take forever if you drag and drop files into playlist to read the tags???.... geeez

no

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: TallBill
Back when I had foobar it didn't play wma's which I happen to have a decent amount of. No clue about it now, but at my last knowledge I liked winamp better.

foobar now plays WMAs and everything else under the sun.

Ah, well I'll probably be going back to Foobar whenever I get the chance.

 

[Babbles]

Winamp and will keep with Winamp as long as I can.

 

[Paulson]

Winamp definitely. WMP for video, winamp for audio.

Besides, I wouldn't be able to do shoutcast if it wasn't for winamp!

 

[bandana163]

Foobar > Jetaudio > Winamp.

 

[magomago]

itunes~ i love how it organizes music

 

[Siva]

foobar is pretty ugly

 

[machintos]

I use Itunes. But between foobar and winamp, I choose foobar for the sound quality.

 

[NightCrawler]

http://img137.exs.cx/my.php?lo...mage=foobar20005qy.png

Foobar2000

1. Low CPU
2. Low Memory
3. Tabs Tabs Tabs
4. Designer UI to get to look the way you want
5. Sound Quality

Use to use Winamp 2.x for audio but I really started hating all the little windows. Having a single app with Tabs becoming desirable.

 

[Pciber]

Originally posted by: Supercharged
BTW: It's POLLE! :|

GJ correcting him and spelling it wrong. its poll.

Winamp 2.91, i think.. I am going to either upgrade to winamp 5, or download foobar, once my new rig is up and running, to take advantage of this plugin that keeps track of the songs you listen to.

 

[0roo0roo]

winamp if i go hunt and click
itunes if i want jukebox
foobar is sh*t interface, and i can't hear the magical quality difference.

 

[So]

Big winamp fan here, but I admit I haven't actually tried foobar. Still, I'm really happy with the felxibility of winamp's plugin system which has allowed me to play back some really obscure formats more than once.

 

[NightCrawler]

foobar is sh*t interface, and i can't hear the magical quality difference.

It looks good to me I just don't get the interface complaints:

http://img137.exs.cx/my.php?lo...mage=foobar20005qy.png

 

[So]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler

foobar is sh*t interface, and i can't hear the magical quality difference.

It looks good to me I just don't get the interface complaints:

http://img137.exs.cx/my.php?lo...mage=foobar20005qy.png

Looks pretty straighforward to me. The ominous black bars may be the problem though.

 

[watek]

winamp 5 I like the classic look with streaming radio

 

[bandana163]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
winamp if i go hunt and click
itunes if i want jukebox
foobar is sh*t interface, and i can't hear the magical quality difference.

What kind of sound card do you have?
I didn't notice a big difference with a Live!, but Foobar's superiority is obvious on an Audigy 2 (especially with kernel streaming instead of Directsound).

 

[0roo0roo]

only a santa cruz, but i can't tell between that and a cd

 

[xEDIT409]

I took this straight from Foobar's FAQ:

Does foobar2000 sound better than other players?

No. Most of "sound quality differences" people "hear" are placebo effect (at least with real music), as actual differences in produced sound data are below their noise floor (1 or 2 last bits in 16bit samples). Foobar2000 has sound processing features such as software resampling or 24bit output on new high-end soundcards, but most of other mainstream players are capable of doing the same by now.

 

[Daaavo]

For some reason, whenever I try to load my mp3 directory in Foobar, it causes the program to lock up.


So I've always stuck with Winamp.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Supercharged

Originally posted by: toekramp
k, foobar sucks, the interface sucks, everything about it sucks


just load up winamp and go

Maybe if you listen to music with $15 computer speakers and onboard sound. :roll:

audigy + klipsch, thanks