help........mp3 players
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dx
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Why not Winamp?! But not the 3.x version (a little to buggy and bloated), the 2.81 version. http://classic.winamp.com/
Excellent freeware player with just about every plugin and skin you can imagine. I have yet to see an audio codec that it won't play natively or with a plugin.
Excellent freeware player with just about every plugin and skin you can imagine. I have yet to see an audio codec that it won't play natively or with a plugin.
ok winamp it's old for me, but foobar.........read please:
- native support for many more formats out-of-the-box than winamp
- native and unified full-featured replaygain support (both scanning and setting gain values, and playback ability for many formats)
- ape2 tag support heavily emphasized
- tagz
- native and unified resampling/dither/24-bit output/kernel streaming output
- native high quality EQ
- mass tagger (upcoming version)
- album list (upcoming version)
- more robust playlist than winamp (offers more sorting and manipulation functionality, at least as far as what I can remember of winamp )
- better audio processing pipeline, including better handling of clipping, better dsp system, better volume control system, etc.
These are just a few things I could think of off the top of my head. There's a lot more to foobar being better than winamp other than it just being "new". Unlike most of the other players that get touted because of their "coolness" factor (/me thinks of coolplayer and deliplayer as being too examples in this thread), foobar2000 offers actual unique and excellent functionality in addition to just being damn cool :B
Oh.. and the 32-bit audio processing pipeline isn't there simply because it's "neat", it's actually a non-braindead way to design an audio player like this for once when you take into account all of the different things like dsp, volume control, etc.
Regards.
J.
- native support for many more formats out-of-the-box than winamp
- native and unified full-featured replaygain support (both scanning and setting gain values, and playback ability for many formats)
- ape2 tag support heavily emphasized
- tagz
- native and unified resampling/dither/24-bit output/kernel streaming output
- native high quality EQ
- mass tagger (upcoming version)
- album list (upcoming version)
- more robust playlist than winamp (offers more sorting and manipulation functionality, at least as far as what I can remember of winamp )
- better audio processing pipeline, including better handling of clipping, better dsp system, better volume control system, etc.
These are just a few things I could think of off the top of my head. There's a lot more to foobar being better than winamp other than it just being "new". Unlike most of the other players that get touted because of their "coolness" factor (/me thinks of coolplayer and deliplayer as being too examples in this thread), foobar2000 offers actual unique and excellent functionality in addition to just being damn cool :B
Oh.. and the 32-bit audio processing pipeline isn't there simply because it's "neat", it's actually a non-braindead way to design an audio player like this for once when you take into account all of the different things like dsp, volume control, etc.
Regards.
J.
hi j, so where can we get fobar from bud?
erm i have to add here that foobar is a little if a LOT really basic looking !?
dx
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Yep, agreed Viper. It seems like a good player, but with only a dozen or so plugins. That is why I like Winamp. It's sound limitations are easilly overcome with plugins. And the fact that there are tens of thousands of plugins and skins all over the net, make it more worthwhile.
Plus I have found that shoutcast really works best with Winamp. The others seems to break contact with the music server quite a bit. But listening to hours of commercial free electronica while at work or at home (through a high end surround system
), is all worth it IMHO.
Plus I have found that shoutcast really works best with Winamp. The others seems to break contact with the music server quite a bit. But listening to hours of commercial free electronica while at work or at home (through a high end surround system
), is all worth it IMHO.All you can need about foobar or more, is here ( the best link for audio to me )
J.
http://www.audio-illumination.org/forums/index.php?act=portal
J.
http://www.audio-illumination.org/forums/index.php?act=portal
