Good program to play music with

[purple_haze]

ew,, foobar2k looks too ugly to use. ill stick to winamp at the moment, until someone gives me a valid reason to change.

 

[Moofasa~]

ew,, foobar2k looks too ugly to use. ill stick to winamp at the moment, until someone gives me a valid reason to change.

You can make foobar basically look anyway you want it to look like, just find a skin you enjoy or make one yourself.

 

[duncandun]

I like using Creative Media source player actually... or atleast i used to, being able to mess with all the creative settings in the player was good. Like the speaker settings, EAX, Etc...

But, alas, after i last reformated, i downlaoded the same programs i had befor from creative but i can't mess with my speaker settings, EAX, etc, and i don't have an equilizer(by the way, It might have just been me.. but the equilizer from creative seemed to have a much more profound effect then the one, say that winamp has)

So i'm also looking for a new player... i'll check out this foobar program as well... thanks

 

[xref]

I use Winamp with Otachan's in_!mpg123 and out_asio plug-ins.

 

[SkaarjMaster]

Anyone know why HQSoft Output isn't working for me?

 

[duncandun]

And i couldent get the kernal thing to work, and Foobar diden't have a master volume control... which is wierd, I don't have any creative products installed anymore besides the drivers.

 

[Moofasa~]

Foobar diden't have a master volume control

???

 

[duncandun]

I mean for base/treble control

 

[biohazard_nz]

I mean for base/treble control

?

 

[Moofasa~]

?

Was just about to post that, all that trouble for nothing, thanks bio... ...

 

[synergyo1]

To be fair.. The foobar preference menu does look intimidating My first time going through it was a tad frustrating.

 

[Smitty2k1]

To be fair.. The foobar preference menu does look intimidating My first time going through it was a tad frustrating.

I think the word 'tad' is a bit of an understatement. If I didn't have a step by step guide to setting it up for quality playback I'd be lost. Maybe thats why I still have the default look and I have NO idea how to customize fb2k. I still love it though.

For thoes of you who use fb2k, try using Uberview from www.uberview.org its a great program to organizing huge music collections (if you have full albums) and playing them back on fb2k/winamp and the like.

 

[biohazard_nz]

To be fair.. The foobar preference menu does look intimidating My first time going through it was a tad frustrating.

Yeah - I was really lost at first.
They made the menu a lot less cluttered in 0.9.

 

[emiliobadillio]

What can i use as a good alternative to foobar2000 to get quality playback on my powerbook?

 

[SkaarjMaster]

Well, I still can't get the HQSoft Resampler output plugin to work in Winamp 5.21 with ASIO or whatever settings I try or any advice taken from this thread:
http://www.driverheaven.net/printthread.php?t=76892&pp=100

Anyone know the configuration settings to get the ASIO only output plugin working in Winamp 5.21? Thank you.

 

[bob]

I just bought some hd202s and I need a good audio player that plays lots of different types of music and has lots of options like bass, treble, equalizer etc. I have been using satsuki but I don't like it that much any ideas.

I started using VLC/VLS years ago for the free half decent music and video streaming. Now I mainly use VLC for damn near everything. It follows the KISS rules, doesnt need to download codecs, and has quite a few features, with a very plain basic interface. VLC is next to godly in my book of "half-decent programs".

 

[compslckr]

itunes for music and winamp for movies

 

[Cowcaster88]

iTunes for music and music videos (mp4)....

VLC for DIVX, mpeg and such.... Sometimes QuickTime but I like VLC for just for the full screen feature.

 

[SkaarjMaster]

OK, so the MAD input plugin has a problem with showing the times correctly in Winamp but I'm still using it and the HQSoft output pluging as well as ASIO output won't work with 5.21. I also found out the Milkdrop visual plugin will not work with 5.21 also. Should I just downgrade to Winamp 5.1?

 

[SkaarjMaster]

Hello?

 

[JustinSane]

Try jetaudio. Its pretty slick.

http://www.jetaudio.com/

 

[Dachink]

I use foobar

 

[emp7re]

foobar ftw
Theres a good guide as well at the techspot, http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/
helps get your foobar up and running with newer hardware etc and sounding GREAT. I used it on my stock computer and it sounds better than before I tweaked it. Friend has an xfi and his sounds AWESOME.

 

[SkaarjMaster]

Looks like MAD is toast on my system with Winamp 5.21. It wouldn't play a file and the Milkdrop visualization wouldn't work. I thought it was 5.21 at first. I'll have to try Foobar and other programs and see what happens.

 

[Whiznot]

I have tried and rejected all of the players mentioned in this thread in favor of Mediamonkey Gold. Mediamonkey plays every format and has a built in converter. Mediamonkey can use Winamp plugins including ASIO output. The interface is great. Mediamonkey supports mass tagging and Amazon lookup. The Gold version includes a File Monitoring scan so that library additions, deletions or tag changes made by other programs are reflected.

I have also recommend the Tag&Rename utility for tagging all formats plus file renaming.