I don't understand this obsession with dark, unintuitive, ugly, skinned UIs. Foobar2000 makes more sense to me than Winamp does... Maybe it's because I keep my screen covered with stuff that I'm working on, so whatever media player I use had best be able to make its primary functions available through a right click menu on the system tray (yes, Winamp does this too, but the stupid skinned interface is wasted on me).
Do any players have a superior sound?
For instance does Music Match sound better than WinAmp or foobar et cetera?
For instance does Music Match sound better than WinAmp or foobar et cetera?
Of all the players, Winamp and Foobar2k have special plugins that are supposed to make MP3s sound better. With my SB Live and crappy headphones, I haven't been able to notice a difference. With a studio quality DAC and expensive monitors, there's a chance you might be able to tell.
Anyway, I use Foobar2k because of the no-nonsense interface and lack of fugly skins, not because it produces higher quality sound than WMP10 or some other media player.
Edit: and if you have enough money to afford $3000 for monitor speakers and amp, and another few thousand for something with "Apogee" on the front, then you probably have enough money to have a few 300GB hard disks to store all of your CD collection in FLAC or even WAV, and thus this discussion is rendered meaningless.
Foobar.
I've used Winamp 5 in the classic setting for a long time, and Winamp 2.xx for a long time before that and never wanted to switch to foobar because I too thought the interface was ugly etc. Then I dl'd the latest version to fool around with it, made it look pretty, and now am never going back. Foobar is THE player if you sincerely care about your music collection. I have a boat load of full classical albums ripped to Vorbis as well as rock, etc, and Foobar is just amazing when you customize the playlist display to your liking (which is super easy). And of course, it has a lot of "audiophile candy".
If you have a load of random mp3s off the internet and not full albums, use Winamp. If you rip your own music and have a nice collection, use Foobar.
I've used Winamp 5 in the classic setting for a long time, and Winamp 2.xx for a long time before that and never wanted to switch to foobar because I too thought the interface was ugly etc. Then I dl'd the latest version to fool around with it, made it look pretty, and now am never going back. Foobar is THE player if you sincerely care about your music collection. I have a boat load of full classical albums ripped to Vorbis as well as rock, etc, and Foobar is just amazing when you customize the playlist display to your liking (which is super easy). And of course, it has a lot of "audiophile candy".
If you have a load of random mp3s off the internet and not full albums, use Winamp. If you rip your own music and have a nice collection, use Foobar.
Kernel streaming and ASIO are ways of bypassing the windows mixer which processes audio, making it sound more dull / muddy in the opinion of many people. I don't believe winamp supports either, though it may via a plugin. foobar2k has native KS support, and ASIO via a plugin.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
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foobar. But I hate the play functions for some reason. If I put it on random, it always repeats all the songs when its done playing them.
Where did you get that UI plugin? Foobar hasnt been updated in ages =( Wonder why
Where did you get that UI plugin? Foobar hasnt been updated in ages =( Wonder why
Anubis
No Lifer
dark because i HATE bright colored things on the computer they hurt my eyes, i skin every forum i visit dark because its easier to read....
the skin is pretty easy to use, I dont know how you get unintuitive out of it, seeing as its ALWAYS on top it fits nicely right over te top bar of whatever is open on that monitor, i dont use the sstem tray or tray icon because having it always on top if faster, and i can always see whats playing
Cerb
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For random, try foo_shuffle. I don't know if it protects against duplication, but I've been w/o it now for a few months (I originally got it for the history feature that shuffel has, so I can play random and still go back), and have noticed the included one doesn't do as good of a job spreading out the music played.
Winamp
Will foobar CONVERT FLAC to mp3? Or will it simply play the files? What file would you use to convert from FLAC to mp3?
- Jel
Will foobar CONVERT FLAC to mp3? Or will it simply play the files? What file would you use to convert from FLAC to mp3?
- Jel
Foobar (using winamp plugins )
Got sick of winamp - too slow / recent security issues / core team gone.....
)Got sick of winamp - too slow / recent security issues / core team gone.....
Pretty wicked
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