do you use foobar2000?

[file cabinet]

I used to use winamp but I found it to be too bloated for me and the only thing that was cool about it was the milkdrop plugin which I rarely(if ever) used.
anyway, the first time I tried foobar2k I didn't like it.. but then I tried it again at a later date and it grew on me.
after changing the look of it wth the aid of this site it has become my default audio player:
http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/

most 'true' audiophiles run foobar2k.. anyway..
download it at:
http://www.foobar2000.org/

[Rinascita]

"Features

...extraction on-the-fly from RAR..."


Interesting. I am competely obsessed with RAR format.

Downloadiing now.

[Melody]

It's not on http://www.sourceforge.net or http://www.download.com . Those bastards. Anyway, I downloaded it. I have been looking for something other than Windows Media Player, and this is precisely what I wanted.

[file cabinet]

It's not open source although it has an SDK

[file cabinet]

look in the preferences and adjust as needed.
Click DSP manager in the preferences or Equalizer
you can turn on hardware mixing if your soundcard has it enabled.
also, you can adust the replaygain settings in Playback

[Melody]

I like the sound quality. Windows Media Player feels like I'm listening to music with water in my ears. That's good if I'm weaving a banjo underwater, but not in most other cases. F2k has a crisp, clean quality.

[Hunter]

I still use winamp for my audio needs, but for video nothing beats Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/). It plays EVERYTHING, even Real(crappy)Media.

[Melody]

IT HAS A SOURCEFORGE PAGE!

[TheSuspect]

I use Foobar2000 and I love it. The comment about winamp etc sounding like listening to music under water is very fitting. Foobars' sound is just GREAT. And the tabs. And the simplicity. It is CLEAN. And the low memory usage. It reacts fast to my keyboards' built-in play-pause-stop-previous-next-buttons, too. Winamp does not.

F00bar ftw.

[HackerX]

It never really clicked with me. At the time, my music collection wasn't really organised properly and would have required way to much set up time.

These days I used itunes, as it's the closest thing I've found to Amarok (and it's functionality) under windows. But it's such a shitty program, always on the look out for something better.

[lbloom]

Media Player Classic for everything but .VOBs. For those, I use VLC.

[Ka.avik]

the last time I tried it, the program had a lot of bugs, and kept crashing or even taking my computer down when I'd play .ogg files (the reason I tried it in the first place)

Nowadays I find either mediaplayer-classic (somewhere here (http://www.free-codecs.com)) or irfan (http://www.irfanview.com/) view suits me best, with all the plugins at which point there is basically no media file known to man, sound video or still, that cannot be rendered properly.

My VBR files keep confusing it, as to track length, though. No program seems to know how long it actually is.

I used to like sonique, but it slid from free-as-in-beer but still good / clean, and I had fun with the skins, to it's current highly annoying, slightly buggy old-skin incompatible current state. But I still hold fond memories of my first install of that program.


well, maybe the second install.

[HackerX]

I may have found what I've been looking for.

Check out Songbird:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/

It's like the illegitimate child of Firefox & iTunes

[abathur]

Yeah. I've been using and loving it for, hrm, shit, guess it's already been four+ years now. I keep winamp installed, and use it for stuff. I wanted foobar to have something lighter to run while I was gaming.

[Schuyler]

I fucking love foobar. Been using it for years.

[Colonel Panic]

Got it yesterday, I'm pretty impressed with it.

Thanks for the recommendation.

[PiccoloNamek]

Does anybody know of a good, fully parametric plugin equalizer for foobar? It needs to have a low shelf, high shelf, and at least three peak filters with selectable frequencies and adjustable Q settings.

[nagrom]

I used it back in the day when I was stuck on Windows, but now I use iTunes on OSX, which is essentially the same thing with the customization removed (which I see little reason to have anyway).

I miss the old school design aesthetic though.

[Avengardh]

I am in love with foobar.

I think this is the only worthy thread for me to post in.