Wintermute Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I have heard many, many audiophiles talk about their favorite mp3 player: Foobar? What is so gosh darn special about this player? Does anyone know about this player? Any info would be much obliged. Cheers, Wintermute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Why do I like it? because it is an MP3 player. Not an MP3, WMA, RMA, and ten thousand other players in one small file or one super bloated file (both bad, too small for all the file types means compression or other gimicky ways of getting things scaled down, such as quality, and too big means something is being install that should not be or just wasting space). It is fast and smootha nd wonderful to listen to. Would like the F.mp3 decoder... maybe a mod for that? ok, here is what a reviewer has to say. In former times, when there was hardly Multimedia software in the InterNet, Winamp was the king under the MP3-Playern. The special characteristics were the small size and the user friendly Design. Today Winamp is more a universe in One solution than a functional MP3-Player. Peter Pawlowski, a famous Plugin developer for Winamp and some other Player, has with Foobar now developed which Winamp in former times was. Past success gives it right. Foobar 2000 is still in the development stage, is however already now the racer under the MP3-Playern. It is not to become a slim Player (at present approximately 500 KB) without much Drumherum, without graphic elements and without technical elements eh to be used. Thus it also looks: Functionality and sound quality stand in the foreground, on Visualisation Plugins or pretty exchangeable surfaces must the user do without. But Foobar can shine 2000 with a number of technical characteristics. The Player plays the formats Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD and Monkey's audio beside the classical MP3. Foobar 2000 can pick out and play out zip or RSR files music files (with title information) without these to unpack. The slim Player supports a new Playlist format (mú8), which supports also international designations by means of UTF8. The usual Playlistformat mú is also supported. "" global the Hotkey" function permits the programming of instructions, which can be used also beyond the program borders. This might interest above all the computer players, who do not want to change or be able usually simply so from the play in the Player. Who would like to support Peter with the development, to which can itself announce in the forum of Hydrogenaudio.org. Here the specialists meet in things of audio formats, developers from all world tinker at different projects or discuss attitudes with the Encoder. - supported formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD (needs foo_mod.dll), SPC (needs foo_spc.dll), monkey's audio (needs foo_ape.dll) - 32bit floating point audio processing pipeline, with 6dB hard limiter and conversion to 16/24bit (dithered) at the end. - lossy formats (MP3, Vorbis, MPC) are decoded directly to 32bit FP so there's no clipping - transparent rar/zip reading (slow) - full unicode support, new playlist format (m3u8) storing international filenames properly (using UTF-8) - runs *only* on win2k/winxp or newer - built in SSRC resampler component (DSP) - reads APEv2 tags from MP3 files (id3v2 is not supported and will never be) - fully customizable keyboard shortcuts, including global hotkeys Foobar is quickly getting a lot of recognition and for a reason it quite possibly is the most powerful audio player available. No gimmicks, just music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Sounds great wanted to get you my copy of it, cause I KNOW my site works all the time, sometimes his site is offline or just terribly slow. http://www.soundwise.org/klipschubb/justin_tx_16/foobar.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkpark Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 as Justin stated, this is one great player that for me outshines winamp. it's faster, more functional, and sound better because it supports higher accuracy audio output. if you have a soundcard such as the M-Audio Revolution 7.1 which supports 24bit out put then this mp3 player is for you. if you get the lastest beta it comes with asio support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddvj Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 ---------------- On 3/11/2003 7:00:07 PM Wintermute wrote: I have heard many, many audiophiles talk about their favorite mp3 player ---------------- How can you even say "audiophiles" and "mp3" in the same sentence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_tx_16 Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Audiophile does not mean what most think it does, all in the eye of the beholder. To Mr. Webster it means "A person having an ardent interest in stereo or high-fidelity sound reproduction" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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