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Oh my DEAR LORD! Im gonna cry....

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Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: pillage2001
Originally posted by: pulse8
I'm assuming it's my sound card, but I don't notice a damn difference. 🙂
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What sc?? Speakers?? I thought my Z560 was not good enough before this but I've seen it all after converting to foobar. 😀
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I have a Santa Cruz with some Boston Acoustic BA4800's.
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When was the last time you cleaned your ears then?? 😀
 
Originally posted by: jaeger66
Originally posted by: erikiksaz
So far, it seems that these support it:

Santa Cruz
Audigy 2
nforce onboard sound?

Any others to add?
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Did you see the post about making sure you select KS as an option at install time? Any properly functioning card should work(though only in (WinXP/2k for KS mode).
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Yeah, i saw that, but thought it was only for the newer sound cards. I'm at a friend's house (he has a live), but i'll try it anyways.
 
Originally posted by: pillage2001
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: pillage2001
Originally posted by: pulse8
I'm assuming it's my sound card, but I don't notice a damn difference. 🙂
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What sc?? Speakers?? I thought my Z560 was not good enough before this but I've seen it all after converting to foobar. 😀
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I have a Santa Cruz with some Boston Acoustic BA4800's.
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When was the last time you cleaned your ears then?? 😀
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I've played several different songs. First with Winamp, then with foobar and I don't hear any differences. Maybe it's the speakers or maybe it's the sound card, but it sounds the same to me.

I'm happy with the way my sound card and speaker combo sounds, but I don't know if I'm getting the same results as others.
 
Originally posted by: pillage2001


When was the last time you cleaned your ears then?? 😀
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Personally I've found the Audigy cards to benefit the most from KS, the SC sounds pretty damn good in waveout mode. I've never any card that didn't benefit at least a little from KS though. But as with anything in audio, YMMV.
 
nVidia SoundStorm doesn't support it, does it?
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My 8rda+ nforce 2 with soundstorm supports it. Sounds amazing. Only problem is when I unrar files the music gets corrupted sometimes. Might be my settings or too taxing the southbridge too much.


Edit: works fine now, I had it on post processing 32 bit fix point.

Edit: CPu usage is also pretty high, about 20% slower 3dmarks and serious sam 2 framerates with it running in the background, compared to almost no reducton using directsound outpout.
 
I can't really tell a difference either :\

Interface needs a lot of work but i guess its because its "hackers" program (the impression i get from the forums over there) that making a simple interface would make it too user friendly or something
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Turtle Beach Santa Cruz + Klipsch 4.1
 
As far as I know (tested it with the methods described) my SoundMAX onboard sound chip on my Dell Optiplex GX260 supports Kernel Streaming.

It sounds great.

Wait, nevermind - it doesn't work. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
As far as I know (tested it with the methods described) my SoundMAX onboard sound chip on my Dell Optiplex GX260 supports Kernel Streaming.

It sounds great.

Wait, nevermind - it doesn't work. 🙁
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My SoundMax on my Asus P4PE works beautifully, sorry.
 
Originally posted by: BDawg


Where are instructions for doing that?
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It's not really an official thing, basically what you do is create your own toolbar and put the shortcuts to the commands in it.

1.)Create a folder.
2.)Extract these icons into it.
3.)Then create a shortcut to each function in the folder. Format is "C:\Program Files\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe" /play
4.)The other switches are /stop, /pause, /prev, and /next, adjust your path if it's not the default like mine.
5.)Point each shortcut to the corresponding icon.
6.)Drag the folder to the taskbar, your new toolbar is created.
7.)From the toolbar's properties uncheck show text and show title
 
With my tbsc and my sony mdr-cd380 headphones I dont really notice that much of a difference between wmp and foobar. THe only difference is foobar is louder when I play music so it seems more rich.
 
Originally posted by: jaeger66
Originally posted by: BDawg


Where are instructions for doing that?
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It's not really an official thing, basically what you do is create your own toolbar and put the shortcuts to the commands in it.

1.)Create a folder.
2.)Extract these icons into it.
3.)Then create a shortcut to each function in the folder. Format is "C:\Program Files\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe" /play
4.)The other switches are /stop, /pause, /prev, and /next, adjust your path if it's not the default like mine.
5.)Point each shortcut to the corresponding icon.
6.)Drag the folder to the taskbar, your new toolbar is created.
7.)From the toolbar's properties uncheck show text and show title
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that's an excellent idea, been going on a while now. Haven't used that much cause iu just use hot keys.


Originally posted by: Maleficus
I can't really tell a difference either :\

Interface needs a lot of work but i guess its because its "hackers" program (the impression i get from the forums over there) that making a simple interface would make it too user friendly or something
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Turtle Beach Santa Cruz + Klipsch 4.1
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i don't know how much GUI it needs. Suggestions?

HotKeys are god send. Control "play, pause, stop, next ,random, shuffle" without ever opening the program.
 
Originally posted by: Sid59


i don't know how much GUI it needs. Suggestions?

HotKeys are god send. Control "play, pause, stop, next ,random, shuffle" without ever opening the program.
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Yes, something that makes it collapsable and out of the way, but still available like MMD3 skin for Winamp 3. See below picture.

Desktop
 
It works with my Game Theater XP, no problems here...

Slightly noticeable difference with my Sony MDR-V600 headphones, but much more noticeable with Paradigm Monitor 9s...both times the headphones and speakers were going through a H/K 320 receiver.

danka. 😀
 
Originally posted by: BDawg
Originally posted by: Sid59


i don't know how much GUI it needs. Suggestions?

HotKeys are god send. Control "play, pause, stop, next ,random, shuffle" without ever opening the program.
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Yes, something that makes it collapsable and out of the way, but still available like MMD3 skin for Winamp 3. See below picture.

Desktop
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it minimizes to the tray
you can edit a toolbar to control the play and pause and etc .. there's also a foo_classic.dll which is small and has the buttons on it
hot keys


I like foobar cause i could careless about skins and i never had winamp in winshade or open. When Peter is done, it's rumoured, he will split the core and GUI. Meaning, people with decent skills can make foobar whatever they want, from a simple DLL.

Again .. Foobar = 0.60 beta 19
winamp 2 = 2.9
winamp 3 = years of development
 
Originally posted by: BDawg
Originally posted by: jumpr
As far as I know (tested it with the methods described) my SoundMAX onboard sound chip on my Dell Optiplex GX260 supports Kernel Streaming.

It sounds great.

Wait, nevermind - it doesn't work. 🙁
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My SoundMax on my Asus P4PE works beautifully, sorry.
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It sounds loads better with Kernel Streaming enabled, but the thing is that when I downloaded one of those DTS files, I just got static.
 
Question - why do most onboard sound cards seem to work with it while other more expensive ones don't?
 
Originally posted by: Maleficus
Interface needs a lot of work but i guess its because its "hackers" program (the impression i get from the forums over there) that making a simple interface would make it too user friendly or something
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Look at the version number of the program
you can program the user interface if you want it so bad
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Originally posted by: tweakmm
Originally posted by: Maleficus
Interface needs a lot of work but i guess its because its "hackers" program (the impression i get from the forums over there) that making a simple interface would make it too user friendly or something
rolleye.gif
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Look at the version number of the program
you can program the user interface if you want it so bad
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SDK is available too ..
 
I tried it with my Inspiron 8200's onboard audio and it's amazing. The equalizer is the best software one I've seen. The interface sucks but the sound is great. I wonder if this thing will work with my SB Extigy? 😀
 
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