God i love foobar :)

[aphex]

M-Audio Revolution + Klipsch Promedia v2-400 + Foobar (Kernel Streaming) = UberGoodness

Anyone else bask in the greatness of this program?

Sure the GUI is lacking, but the sound more than makes up for it.

 

[brunswickite]

what is this foobar you speak of?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
what is this foobar you speak of?

Foobar 2000

You have to have a soundcard that supports Kernel Streaming though...

 

[DaveSimmons]

It works well even with plain soundcards, and supports FLAC natively for lossless goodness.

 

[stev0]

i have that setup on my AVPC.. hooked to a kenwood HT system, but still faptacular :-D

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: brunswickite
what is this foobar you speak of?

Foobar 2000

You have to have a soundcard that supports Kernel Streaming though...

does TB SC support it?

and is there a sound improvement over winamp?

 

[conjur]

Supported by a Sound Blaster Live! ?

 

[sandorski]

Here I thought you were talking about the aptly named movie: FUBAR

 

[Cerb]

It crashes on me. However, I am keeping track of it...
What is it that makes it and XMMS sound cleaner than Winamp?
However, it is definitely getting better, and will replace Winamp for me one of these days.
...and I've only got onboard sound .
It probably would already have repalced Winamp, except AFAIK, there isn't a LiteStep plug-in for it.
If it had a volume control I'd use it over Winamp as well.

 

[Chaotic42]

Am I blind, or do they not have a FAQ on their page?

 

[Sid59]

there is no FAQ.

THE GUI is perfect. If you need more of a GUI use the foo_wsgui.dll. Looks are available @ FOOBARLOOKS.TK

aphex welcome to Foobar.

 

[Imported]

I hate the GUI.. Having to go to the menu to play, open, pause, etc. sucks.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: Imported
I hate the GUI.. Having to go to the menu to play, open, pause, etc. sucks.

use HOTKEYS and you'll never have to do that.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Sid59
there is no FAQ.

THE GUI is perfect. If you need more of a GUI use the foo_wsgui.dll. Looks are available @ FOOBARLOOKS.TK

aphex welcome to Foobar.

...and it's got just as minimal documentation...little things like how to change the skin left out...foobar itself is at least very intuitive.

 

[Imported]

Err, I hate using hotkeys. It's easier to click "next" on Winamp and switch back to the app I was using than clicking on Foobar, pressing a hotkey, then going back.

 

[kermalou]

there are globl hotkeys.

 

[Czar]

pretty cool, trying it out, yes there is no sign of a gui there, but its not that bad
not good enough to replace winamp

 

[dfi]

I'm still trying to figure out what's so special about it. It definitely sounds different, but right now it just sounds like it has a lot more echo.

dfi

 

[LS20]

worst worst WORST gui ever. i use it with sb live! value and koss ksc-35 headphones. cant hear a difference so ill stick with winamp 2.9 for now

 

[aphex]

BTW, make sure you guys are selecting 'Kernal Streaming' under the Output tab in Preferences.... Its not enabled by default...

 

[aphex]

.

 

[Imported]

Nevermind

 

[dfi]

Ya, I went ahead and selected kernel streaming. I've been comparing it with wmp8 and foobar does sound better on certain songs. It seems to accentutate the higher frequencies or something... but foobar seems to sound thinner when playing more rock/guitar driven songs. Further listening is required I suppose.

dfi

 

[wedi42]

what the heck is kernel steaming??

 

[Imported]

I don't notice a difference between the kernal streaming and Winamp with my speakers.. gonna check with headphones now.

Foobar sounds better with kernal streaming than Winamp when I use my headphones.. blah. Hope Winamp implements it since I hate the GUI of Foobar.