foobar2000

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:47 pm

I downloaded this program yesterday and was quite amazed. It plays pretty much everything that you can throw at it and has support for the PSF and SPC sound formats built in.
What I found to be the most useful feature of this player was the seamless transition between tracks. This is especially useful when listening to an album where many songs are linked and run into one and other. I have listened to the Frank Zappa album "Apostrophe" many, many times in the past year, in many different players, and there would always exist a gap between the songs. Foobar makes the listening experiece much more enjoyable.

The only problem that I had with it, was that there was no volume slider. However, a quick internet search brought me to a thread on hydrogenaudio.org started by our very own kode54. I would like to express my thanks to him for making this plugin.

So anyhow... for those of you who have never used foobar, try out this media player. It won't cost you a penny.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:32 pm

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a non-EXE download.
Not good for users without admin rights.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:41 pm

I've tried foobar at various different times... and never really liked it.

It certainly is a powerful program, with apparently infinite possibilities with the scripting/plugin engine or whatever they use. However, I'm already very comfortable with Winamp, and it does everything I need it to, so it's not worth it to me to figure out how to use/configure foobar.

I haven't yet used a video/audio/media player that I've been totally satisfied with. I dislike media players (or any program, like Mirand-IM) that extensively depend on plugins, because often those plugins are very complicated, poorly documented, and/or have inconsistent user interfaces. This includes foobar, and to some extent Winamp.

VLC comes close to what I'm looking for, however I still haven't taken the time to figure out how to configure and use it properly.

EDIT: I might have to finally take the plunge and get MPlayer setup.

Anyway, Winamp/WMP/MPC combination works pretty well for me.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:33 pm

I use WinAMPS.

Lizking · Post by **Lizking** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:17 pm

I've been using foobar2000 almost exclusively for about 2-3 years now. the only thing I use winamp for now is listening to USFs and incomplete winMX downloads

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:29 am

Winamp is the way for me.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:49 am

Winamp's media library is fucking awesome, and the ML_IPOD plugin makes it so I never have to tough that steaming bloated pile of shit iTunes.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:18 am

I just use mplayer from a command line. I am so boring and nerdy.

I feel depressed, now.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:33 am

Audacious owns your souls. All of your souls. Including the one you keep in that safe behind the family photo.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:02 am

I'm still with my good old reliable Winamp v2.91.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:46 am

Starman Ghost wrote:I'm still with my good old reliable Winamp v2.91.

Any reason not to upgrade to Winamp 5?

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:52 am

snkcube wrote:
Starman Ghost wrote:I'm still with my good old reliable Winamp v2.91.
Any reason not to upgrade to Winamp 5?

This has been discussed before.

If you're pleased with one version, why update? Everyone has their reasons. Sometimes I stick with older versions of big software when I'm on dial-up and don't want to download the update.

I still use Winamp 5, though.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:42 am

I just skipped 3 because it wouldn't work with SnesAMP, and because it pissed me off in general with it's stupid wasabi bullshit.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:44 am

Aerdan wrote:Including the one you keep in that safe behind the family photo.

Sorry, don't keep it there. Thats where I keep my porn.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:45 pm

snkcube wrote:
Starman Ghost wrote:I'm still with my good old reliable Winamp v2.91.
Any reason not to upgrade to Winamp 5?

Don't need the extra features(aka bloat) and I have zero problems with my current version.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:47 pm

I really like the way 5 keeps track of my 50 gigs of VGM though - it makes it easier to find the album I want than windows explorer, which is pretty impressive to me.

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:31 pm

casualsax3 wrote:I really like the way 5 keeps track of my 50 gigs of VGM though - it makes it easier to find the album I want than windows explorer, which is pretty impressive to me.

Media Library?

Maybe I should do that too for my ~30GB VGM collection.

Mark7 · Post by **Mark7** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:00 pm

Foobar is much better than Winamp:

- stable (one of most important reasons why i changed from winamp to foobar)
- no bloat (useless skins or whatever)
- highly costumizable
- replaygain (add and play)
- good 24/32 bit sound support
- discwriter (to convert to any other format with tags)

Pros that Foobars supports for a long time, but which are now also available for Winamp:
- ASIO and Kernel streaming output
- Gapless mp3 support (by reading the lame tag) and 24 bit decoding (shibatch mpg123)

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:49 am

For once, I agree with Aerdan.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:12 am

You can customise WinAMP 5.xx to look exactly like WinAMP 2.xx and remove most of the unneeded features like visualisations and skins, plus you get bug fixes and for those that care - sound quality improvements.

WinAMP 5 Lite is 1.1MB.

I wouldn't dream of using WinAMP 2.xx simply due to numerous possible security holes:

Winamp 5.094
* Fixed: Security vulnernability in id3v2 tags

Winamp 5.08:
* Critical Security bug fixed in in_mp4.dll and enc_mp4.dll and libmp4v2.dll
* Critical Security buffer overflow fixed in in_cdda.dll

Winamp 5.07:
* Critical Security bug fixed in in_cdda.dll and .m3u handler

Winamp 5.06:
* Security bug fixes

Winamp 5.05:
* Security bug fix

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:45 pm

I have to agree with Clements. Winamp 5 has numerous improvements and fixes over Winamp 2.xx, and like it has been said before, all the "bloat" is optional.

There is no reason for people who like Winamp to stick with the old 2.xx version.

Lord Alpha · Post by **Lord Alpha** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:49 pm

I agree with everything Jpicy and Agozer said.

<3 Winamp 5

I use XMMS on Linux as it comes closest to Winamp, but I miss the video playback support.

I love amarok, but I wish it supported XMMS plugins. if it did, I'd only ever use that.

DOLLS (J) [!] · Post by **DOLLS (J) [!]** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:13 pm

foobar all the way

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:26 am

foobar has a media database that works very well.

more saner than what winamp has.

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:41 pm

Security fixes shouldn't matter if you are not connected to the net...

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