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Offline aynjell

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« Reply #50 on: Mon, 24 January 2011, 04:46:13 »
Quote from: EverythingIBM;283509
XMPlay XMPlay XMPlay.

All other media players fall flat when it comes to supporting the most wide amount of formats with the lowest CPU footprint.


I might have to give this a listen. "Balls on accurate" it says. I'm a foobar fan myself mainly because the vast majority of pc using audiophiles are. Sometimes doing what everyone else does has it's perks. Foobar is like the mustang of the audio community.
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« Reply #51 on: Mon, 24 January 2011, 10:38:44 »
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There's an interesting history about digital cassettes and why they were quickly taken off the market...
DCC? Well, new formats with backwards compatibility have rarely been that successful.
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I might have to give this a listen. "Balls on accurate" it says. I'm a foobar fan myself mainly because the vast majority of pc using audiophiles are. Sometimes doing what everyone else does has it's perks. Foobar is like the mustang of the audio community.
Well, I hope you had more reasons than "everyone else uses it". Several years ago Fb2k was ahead of pretty much everything, with textbook-level processing, gapless playback, Replaygain (read and write) support, kernel streaming support and extensive customization options. (Keep in mind that Foobar's author was a former Winamp plugin developer who was dissatisfied with how things worked in that player, so he decided to roll his own in about '02.) It certainly hasn't gotten any worse. The support policy still sucks though.

What I use:
Music library - Foobar2000 1.0.3
Video, PVR timeshift recordings - VLC
Radio recording archive - Winamp 5.3.5
Web MP3 streaming - MPC / MPC-HC
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« Reply #52 on: Tue, 25 January 2011, 14:14:13 »
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DCC? Well, new formats with backwards compatibility have rarely been that successful.

Well, I hope you had more reasons than "everyone else uses it". Several years ago Fb2k was ahead of pretty much everything, with textbook-level processing, gapless playback, Replaygain (read and write) support, kernel streaming support and extensive customization options. (Keep in mind that Foobar's author was a former Winamp plugin developer who was dissatisfied with how things worked in that player, so he decided to roll his own in about '02.) It certainly hasn't gotten any worse. The support policy still sucks though.

What I use:
Music library - Foobar2000 1.0.3
Video, PVR timeshift recordings - VLC
Radio recording archive - Winamp 5.3.5
Web MP3 streaming - MPC / MPC-HC

I use it because it provides exact playback, wasapi, and the crossfeed plugin is good too. Also I can rip CD's with verification, re-tagging is easy, and I can setup the screen exactly the way I like it. It works perfectly for all my uses.
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« Reply #53 on: Tue, 25 January 2011, 14:31:19 »
I still use Winamp with classic skin.  It really whips the llamas ass, you know.

Does anyone here use Grooveshark?  I started exclusively using it for everything.  I save playlists and add things to my library just as I would with itunes and my d: drive, except I don't have to store anything.  I'm not a hardcore music stereohead enthusiast, but the quality is still amazing when I listen to it through my Sennheiser 555s.

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« Reply #54 on: Tue, 25 January 2011, 23:23:13 »
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I might have to give this a listen. "Balls on accurate" it says. I'm a foobar fan myself mainly because the vast majority of pc using audiophiles are. Sometimes doing what everyone else does has it's perks. Foobar is like the mustang of the audio community.


XMPlay also does tracker files. No other media player I know of can support so many tracker formats (.IT, .MO3, .S3M, .XM, etc.) or render them so nicely. Even the original Amiga players sound inferior to me.

But it works great for any audio really.
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« Reply #55 on: Tue, 25 January 2011, 23:32:31 »
XMPlay is great and what I use on my Windows box, specifically because of it's tracker format support. However it does have a tendency to crash if you try and load thousands of files (in a folder) at one time. I just make separate playlists of each folder in the HVSC archive rather than try and load them all at once. Another problem I had was trying to play (I think it's) sc68 files which requires the installation of a dll and registry tweaking to point it at the right place. I hate having to set that up on a fresh install. That said there's absolutely nothing XMPlay can't play and if it can't, comment on the forums about it and someone will come up with a plugin for it.

I've yet to find anything on Mac that comes close to being as stable and supporting as much as XMPlay does. Which is a shame.

Offline godly_music

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« Reply #56 on: Wed, 26 January 2011, 07:54:50 »
WASAPI, ASIO or kernel streaming do not make things sound different. They are used for low latency audio work. They may sound different if your typical windows mixer setting is messed up and it adds DSPs, etc.

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« Reply #57 on: Wed, 26 January 2011, 12:19:17 »
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WASAPI, ASIO or kernel streaming do not make things sound different. They are used for low latency audio work. They may sound different if your typical windows mixer setting is messed up and it adds DSPs, etc.

I've noticed it doesn't make anything sound different, however it does make a really nice "turn everything else off" feature. Foobar is not set to use on open on any files. It is strictly a media browser. It doesn't play music files unless I explicitly tell it to. For everything else, there's VLC. In the case of foobar, if I'm sitting down to listen to an album, no distractions are permitted.

Thus WASAPI, also it prevents ANY mixer interference. It's a bit paranoid in this regard, but there are reasons for me to use it.
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« Reply #58 on: Wed, 26 January 2011, 14:39:32 »
You're right, of course, that's an excellent reason to use it. I'm so used to the usual answer of "it sounds different" that I automatically assumed. :biggrin:

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« Reply #59 on: Wed, 26 January 2011, 18:09:33 »
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You're right, of course, that's an excellent reason to use it. I'm so used to the usual answer of "it sounds different" that I automatically assumed. :biggrin:

I never could hear much of a difference, but I think I use wasapi for the same reason I use flac. I KNOW FOR A FACT my sound card is playing as true to the source as it physically possibly can. Foobar, playing FLAC that was verified against the accuraterip database (if it's on my drive, it's 100% verified unless there's no record of the album), through wasapi out via optical to an external DAC. I want my computer to screw up my music as little as physically possible. I'll let my tubes do all of that. :O
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« Reply #60 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 03:14:44 »
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I never could hear much of a difference, but I think I use wasapi for the same reason I use flac. I KNOW FOR A FACT my sound card is playing as true to the source as it physically possibly can. Foobar, playing FLAC that was verified against the accuraterip database (if it's on my drive, it's 100% verified unless there's no record of the album), through wasapi out via optical to an external DAC. I want my computer to screw up my music as little as physically possible. I'll let my tubes do all of that. :O


I find FLAC so inconvenient. If you want good quality just use WAVs, they have 3 TB HDDs these days anyways.
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« Reply #61 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 03:43:41 »
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I find FLAC so inconvenient. If you want good quality just use WAVs, they have 3 TB HDDs these days anyways.


He trollin'.

I'm a big fan of FLAC myself, but it's just what I download and later transcode into Vorbis Q6, which is for keeping and listening.

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« Reply #62 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 06:49:09 »
I actually have Foobar output via DSound since I need the soundcard driver's feature that duplicates stereo on all channels in order to run both speakers and headphones. Accordingly, the output format is set up as 16 bit with dithering. In terms of processing, I only have Replaygain and mono->stereo conversion enabled. It's not "bit perfect" (strictly speaking), but transparent.
People get worked up about bit-perfect playback too much - the system should be able to pull it off, but that doesn't mean you have to give up all kinds of convenience features like RG.

My (CD) music library is all in FLAC, plus transcoded medium-bitrate MP3s for portable use. I don't feel like ripping things again.
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« Reply #63 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 15:46:31 »
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I find FLAC so inconvenient. If you want good quality just use WAVs, they have 3 TB HDDs these days anyways.


Flac quality is the same as wav, but it also provides tagging functionality including album covers which improves convenience and user experience. Also, the files are better compressed. While it is less usable on some systems, in my use case, it's best possible option, so I use it.
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« Reply #64 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 19:26:07 »
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WAVs?  Wow, when you say EverythingIBM you ain't kidding.

React 2.0 to create both MP3 and Flac using EAC into both file types automatically on my media server with embedded album art.  DbPoweramp will do the same but I haven't tried it.



That's one reason I love foobar, every feature in EAC (the file verification) I care about is reproducible in foobar. Hooray for one app to rule them all (music wise)!
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« Reply #65 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 19:49:18 »
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WAVs?  Wow, when you say EverythingIBM you ain't kidding.

React 2.0 to create both MP3 and Flac using EAC into both file types automatically on my media server with embedded album art.  DbPoweramp will do the same but I haven't tried it.


I've always had a hard ass time playing FLACs... I just hate the format. OGG is more mainstream.

There seriously is nothing wrong with WAVs, storage is getting so large that it doesn't matter anymore.
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« Reply #66 on: Fri, 28 January 2011, 07:17:40 »
Yeah but FLAC is 1/2 the size of WAV and it's still huge. I've never run into anything that couldn't handle FLAC, except maybe for some Apple junk that only accepts ALAC. You can lossless transcode that easily.

Offline Jerri

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« Reply #67 on: Fri, 28 January 2011, 08:12:32 »
Winamp since about 1998 ;). But sometimes i would try some new one.
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« Reply #68 on: Fri, 28 January 2011, 08:34:28 »
Another Winamp user here!

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« Reply #69 on: Sun, 13 February 2011, 13:42:57 »
I use foobar and zune player.  
Foobar can run flac but the user interface could use some love.  
One has functionality and the other is just more intuitive.
Used to use winamp but for some reason I don't any more.  Probably because they have way too many updates and each time they trick me to installing 3rd party crap.
On Ubuntu i just use Rythmbox, I used to use Amarok but the lastest revisions must of been developed by a different set of people because it is awful.. Amarok 1.X > 2.0 after that it crashes and the is not as smooth.

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« Reply #70 on: Sun, 13 February 2011, 15:03:51 »
Regarding XMPlay

Quote

However it does have a tendency to crash if you try and load thousands of files (in a folder) at one time.



I had that complaint for quite some time. As it turns out, it was actually a problem with one of the 1500+ files I was asking it to queue. Once I removed the file, I was good to go. The problem is that it can be wonky about pinpointing exactly which file made it take a **** all over itself. You load a ton of files, hear the hard drive grinding in the background, and a few seconds later it dies on you. Not helpful!

But really, it would be nice to see a dialog box pop up with something like "error: foo_bar.mp3 is corrupt. Derping."

Other than that, XMPlay is the ****.

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« Reply #71 on: Sun, 13 February 2011, 16:21:58 »
Chalk up another Linux CLI guy here:
ncmpcpp + mpc - music
mplayer - videos

If I ever get around to using Windows again it'll be foobar2000 and either MPC-HC or VLC.
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« Reply #72 on: Sun, 13 February 2011, 16:54:33 »
whatever opens when I click on a song or video

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« Reply #73 on: Sun, 13 February 2011, 17:05:13 »
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whatever opens when I click on a song or video


Pretty much what I do.
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« Reply #74 on: Sun, 13 February 2011, 22:32:09 »
WMP & VLC
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« Reply #75 on: Sun, 13 February 2011, 22:33:46 »
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Had gotten "used to" Winamp for so many years too. Probably used WinAmp exclusively from 1998 to 2003 or so... until the day Nullsoft came up with Winamp 3. That was when I instantly abandoned them in shame and disgust, and never looked back.

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« Reply #76 on: Mon, 14 February 2011, 22:42:55 »
foobar2000 and winamp for audio and zoomplayer or vlc for video
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« Reply #77 on: Mon, 14 February 2011, 23:51:38 »
WMP + a sidebar application to control it.
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« Reply #78 on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 05:56:46 »
I have been pondering this recently. I spent last weekend ripping my entire CD collection (several 100) onto my computer. I haven't had a CD player for a couple of years, but have been incredibly lazy about switching to using my computer for music.

I have been finding WMP ok so far, but I have also been recommended Songbird and Foobar and I think I will check them out.

Now I need to buy myself a semi decent set of speakers becasue the ones I have currently are awful!

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« Reply #79 on: Wed, 16 March 2011, 00:49:15 »
Audio: Foobar2000
Video: VLC

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« Reply #80 on: Thu, 17 March 2011, 17:44:34 »
Audio: Keeping it oldschool, still using winamp
Video: VLC.
Pretty standard I guess.

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« Reply #81 on: Fri, 18 March 2011, 17:58:31 »
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VLC player since I really don't make time to convert all my media into a standard format.
Yes, VLC Player is very useful.

Quote from: Lethal Squirrel;294519
whatever opens when I click on a song or video
Oh, you trusting soul. I just about never double-click on documents, only programs. Although, by ensuring that I have "Hide extensions for known file types" unchecked, (Windows Explorer (program) > Tools > Options > View (tab) > Hide extensions for known file types (checkbox in scrollbox)) I keep the danger to a minimum.
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« Reply #82 on: Fri, 18 March 2011, 18:10:09 »
lol I don't listen audio
video: mpc-hc
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« Reply #83 on: Fri, 18 March 2011, 18:38:28 »
Banshee for Music, either KMPlayer (the Windows, not KDE, application) or VLC for video.

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« Reply #84 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 03:31:33 »
zune player. I would use winamp and get it to scrobble what I listen to but I just like to use what my player can handle.
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« Reply #85 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 13:02:23 »
I used mostly winamp and foobar. But while searching for an even simpler solution, I stumbled upon billy.

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« Reply #86 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 13:54:49 »
VLC on Linux


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« Reply #87 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 14:39:33 »
MPC-HC (from CCCP) for video,
foobar2000 for audio.

The (unfortunately) oh-so-popular VLC doesn't get any points from me. About every second release has broken matroska support and SSA subtitle rendering.

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« Reply #88 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 16:15:52 »
Always mplayer for video.
foobar2000 for music when I'm on Windows.

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« Reply #89 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 18:44:15 »
foobar with ASIO plugin.

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« Reply #90 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 18:56:29 »
FOOBAR w/ WASABI!
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« Reply #91 on: Sat, 26 March 2011, 20:18:33 »
WMP for music and VLC for video. They just work.

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« Reply #92 on: Sun, 27 March 2011, 09:57:17 »
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