For those of you that use WinAmp

[ZOXXO]

Custom categories in the media library.
MilkDrop.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: VanillaH

Originally posted by: Slickone
Does Foobar 2000 not support MP3Pro? I can't seem to find this out.
I'm using Foobar Light.

not sure on that... i suppose you might need them for some reason, but ifi would have to rip something for home and portable it would have to be flac and ogg/vbr mp3

Agreed. But for streaming from Live365, I don't have that choice. I've tried Winamp with the 3rd party MP3Pro plugin, but am not sure it's working. I've got 'Display MP3 Pro in title' checked, but that doesn't happen while streaming. I dont think there's a simple on/off switch to compare.

 

[konakona]

most of perceived "sound quality differences" between DirectSound and Kernel Streaming are related to the fact that Kernel Streaming usually bypasses windows volume control / wave volume slider.

precisely. this is very true, the difference is rather huge provided you have a right kind of soundcard, unlike audigy which mangles sound by internally resampling to 48khz. dont take those words for their face value, it seems like they want to avoid being swarmed by tech support requests due to people wihtout any knowledge of what they are doing using KS. the majority still uses sound blasters thinking its the best thing out there, so they shouldnt bother with KS. anyone serious about music and using better cards does fit in that category of "a major reason to". this is not necessarily an advantage of foobar, winamp also has this plugin - in fact some even claim winamp sounds better in "high quality mode" selectable in winamp's ASIO plugin. personally, i felt there is no appreciable difference between the ASIO plugins. one case where foobar MAY sound better is if you do a lot of post processing (convolver, advanced limiter and whatnot), since foobar processes data in 64bit internally - less prone to artifacts.

Foobar needs a lot of customisation to look any good, and then it runs like crap with colums_ui. ANY lag in a music player is pretty much unacceptable on a reasonably modern CPU.

dunno, how humongous is your playlist? never seen any slowdown on my humble s754 duron. perhaps you need to spend a little more time optimizing your system? it doesnt take a whole lot of effort to download columns_UI pls file and fcs files (or even foo_pilot if you find that to your liking), possibly just as much as downloading mpg123 decoder for winamp, so i would call it a tie. you sound like one of those techonogically challenged people, in which case, i suggest you to stay with winamp by all means.