Best music playing software

Quintessential Player - Latest Development release http://www.quinnware.com/

with the MAD plugin and a 36 band equilizer plugin which is then tuned with a sound level meter = joy

Oh and I almost forgot it's on a M-Audio Revo 7.1
 
Wouldn't a loudness meter be better? Plus your hearing is likely to have deficiencies in certain areas so it might work for your speakers but not your ears. I just do it manually by ear. Most probably wouldn't find a flat response desirable anyway.

edit: it just popped into my head that if the set-up is for use by multiple people then obviously doing it by ear probably isn't the best way, so I can understand why you'd want to use a meter. >.<
 
DefineByte said:
Wouldn't a loudness meter be better? Plus your hearing is likely to have deficiencies in certain areas so it might work for your speakers but not your ears. I just do it manually by ear. Most probably wouldn't find a flat response desirable anyway.

edit: it just popped into my head that if the set-up is for use by multiple people then obviously doing it by ear probably isn't the best way, so I can understand why you'd want to use a meter. >.<
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Yeah that's basically what I meant. Used the wrong terminology. I prefer a flat response. I try to get mine as flat as possible. Hear the music like it was recorded. You'd be surprised at what you hear that you never knew was there.
 
Moofasa~ said:
That's a pretty big catch.
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Obviously it depends on your priorities, but I think it's kind of laughable that you'd buy your headphones / speakers after careful consideration of which is the best, you'd buy your soundcard after careful consideration which is the best, then you scour the Internets and tie one hand behind your back trying to pay nothing for the media management / playback software when it's your primary interface to the music - the actual source that you bought all your gear for.
 
thezfunk said:
...I prefer a flat response. I try to get mine as flat as possible. Hear the music like it was recorded. You'd be surprised at what you hear that you never knew was there.
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I agree totally. Especially with headphones and binaural recordings. I find them unlistenable without a flat response.
 
Ronco said:
Obviously it depends on your priorities, but I think it's kind of laughable that you'd buy your headphones / speakers after careful consideration of which is the best, you'd buy your soundcard after careful consideration which is the best, then you scour the Internets and tie one hand behind your back trying to pay nothing for the media management / playback software when it's your primary interface to the music - the actual source that you bought all your gear for.
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If foobar cost money, I would pay for it. But fortunately for me, the best available media player is free. If the best speakers available were free, would you pay money for less quality ones? :confused:
 
Anyone with any experience of Quod Libet?

Also, anyone found a decent way to achieve crosfeed in Linux? I haven't found a music player that supports it. Do you have to pipe it through MPlayer? Any Good?
 
thezfunk said:
I prefer a flat response. I try to get mine as flat as possible. Hear the music like it was recorded. You'd be surprised at what you hear that you never knew was there.
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A flat response has zero impact on being able to hear deeper into a mix -- it's just a good starting point for the process that ensures a mix translates to a wider variety of playback systems (and it's only a starting point some mixers take -- others take a different route altogether [see Yamaha NS10]). I'd have to guess that your low-precision digital equalization is doing more damage to your music than good, but if you like that, great!

Ronco said:
Obviously it depends on your priorities, but I think it's kind of laughable that...you scour the Internets and tie one hand behind your back trying to pay nothing for the media management / playback software when it's your primary interface to the music - the actual source that you bought all your gear for.
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Speakers, headphones, pre-amps, amplifiers, DACs and interconnects are tangible items that all negatively impact the purity of the signal. You spend a lot of money on components that do less damage to the purity of the signal, because such components are expensive (and it's only logical to spend time finding components that do the job without breaking the bank).

The media player has no real impact on the purity of the signal. foobar can do kernel streaming and ASIO output, and there's always digital output, which means it's as good as PC audio is going to get (realistically). There's no need to throw a lot of money at it, because you're already at the top. Spending $30 (or $500) on your media player is not going to do less damage to the signal than the one that costs nothing. Maybe it's tougher to navigate through your library, and maybe the shortcuts are bizarre and nonsensical, but it plays the music just as well as any other media player.
 
phide said:
A flat response has zero impact on being able to hear deeper into a mix
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That's not entirely true. It would depend on your listening volume. You could be so over-powered by treble that you turn the volume way down and then can't hear other parts. It's obviously preferable to find a setup with a frequency response you enjoy without EQ but that's easier said than done (especially, as I said earlier, with binaural recordings).
 
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