Foobar2000 Dolby Headphone config - Comment & discuss! - Page 19

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Originally Posted by danny93 

I just tried to change the sound from stereo to 5.1 again, and the option was there...changed it and OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! So immersive listening to trance, completly 3D with all the little details whizzing round my head LOL, very well done mate! Im not even using your updated one ATM, currently downloading :P

 

Also I cant manage to overwrite the stock foobar application folder with your modded foobar...would really appreciate it if you could let me know how you managed it...I just dragged foobar folder to system´s foobar folder and merged and overwrite as prompted but cannot open the foobar.exe after :(

 

Thanks again!

I would move out your old foobar folder somewhere else BUT if you have a standard install (non-portable) of foobar2000 you could also just uninstall that one and then place into the same location this preconfigured package and it should work as normal (might have to choose foobar2000 as standard program to open the mp3/flac files). Since standard install adds the configuration folder to a different place users\username\... etc, that might be conflicting with this portable install so yea if you're using a standard install of foobar I'd first uinstall that one (make sure any themes or whatever configs you might have that you may want saved are saved first).

And yea welcome to 3D whizzling surround sound club. :P

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Originally Posted by musicreo 

When you use a 5.1 track you don't need the channel mixer. In the DH-Wrapper you must insert the location of the dll. The status in  the wrapper should be : "valid Dolby Headphone DLL linked, version 1.2....".

 

If your SACD copy have a samplerate of 96 KHz you must use a resampler because the Dolby Headphone DLL  only works with up to 48 KHz.

True about 5.1 tracks. Well it won't sound exactly the same if not using channel mixer as I've made the tweaks to the channel settings in the plugin though. Didn't know about the 48kHz max samplerate support though. :p

Here's a video I uploaded cuz I thought the voice is just so sweet haha. I'll try to upload a more known song that also sounds like a good demo for it or if you got any ideas for some good songs to demo it with then by all means, please share, makes it easier for me. :P I was maybe thinking "Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold" as the config sounds perhaps most impressive with acoustic music.

(Using the new "forward" config)

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Originally Posted by danny93 

Still cant get it to install correctly, I deleted the program completly and did a fresh install of foobar, then unistaled like you said and moved your preconfigured foobar to the folder in system directory   but get the error could not access profile folder...strange :(

Well that's the prob when you deleted instead of uinstalled the first time and there's probably some old registry edits which are messing with the foobar2000 thinking it's the other foobar2000 still running. With a standard install it uses a config folder elsewhere, don't know exactly, just google it and delete it perhaps.

Well you can always start it up from a different location but it won't start up when clicking on a mp3 though (trying to access the deleted foobar2000 install), you have to manually start up foobar2000 from that other location then. I had this issue once too and I ended up reinstalling windows for that issue as it was driving me mad, couldn't either browse to this new location for foobar2000 when you choose to open a filetype with a certain program as it seems windows can't separate on the locations from where you start up the software so it was trying to start up with the "old foobar2000" I deleted despite linking to that new one. 

EDIT: This location is where it's storing the config files with a standard install:

Windows Xp path: 
C:\Documents and Settings\<PC USER NAME>\Application Data\foobar2000\configuration
Windows 7 path:

C:\Users\<PC USER NAME>\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000\configuration

But I'm not sure if deleting the foobar2000 folder there will be enough though. At least if using my package that folder won't be needed as all files are in that same foobar2000 folder. I'm fairly certain there will still be some registry entries messing with that portable install if you didn't uninstall your old foobar2000 properly. But yea you can try deleting that folder and see if it helps though.

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Originally Posted by wayward91 

this "DOLBYHPH.DLL" that i cant get to work. i presume this just worked for everybody else when linked to the "foo_dsp_dolbyhp.dll" ?

Maybe you've got playback samplerate at 96kHz? As some1 else commented Dolby Headphone seems to support max 48kHz (I use 44.1kHz playback samplerate cuz all my music is that).

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Originally Posted by musicreo 

 

What did you do? You linked to "foo_dsp_dolbyhp.dll"? That is the wrapper and not the DolbyHeadphone.dll. You must link to "dolbyhph.dll" .

Ahh yea, maybe he's trying to link to the wrapper instead of the Dolby Headphone dll file.

dolbyhph.dll is the right file to link to yea, the other foo_dsp_dolbyhp.dll is the foobar2000 dolby headphone wrapper. :P

I uploaded a new video using an old classic by Mike Oldfield as it's a quite suitable song for a demo IMO with suitable amount of complexity. Sounds pretty good to me and quality is great (I'm using a complicated way of uploading stuff to youtube to preserve audio quality as much as possible, there's not much audible difference at all listening from my computer to the file).

I've now updated and cleaned out old obsolete DSP chain presets in the DSP manager page in foobar2000 preferences and named the presets more appropriately. The list now looks like:

The different Presets are based on either the forward or laid-back config with slightly different soundstage settings and EQ settings, the differences are very reasonably small so that they all should be very usable and won't make it suddenly sound exaggerated or weird. 

NOTE: Due to the Electri-Q plugin being very buggy coded some crashing may occur while loading different DSP chain presets in a row that have Electri-Q in the active DSP list. As a compromise for now to the problem whenever you want to load another DSP preset, always first load the "Default: Stock foobar2000" config and then load the desired EQ preset as this avoids the crashing.

The EQ presets can be grabbed from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63937904/foobar2000.v1.1.6.Dolby.Headphone-RPGWiZaRD/foobar2000.EQ.Presets-RPGWiZaRD.zip - Replace your current Core.cfg file in the configuration folder, if using a foobar2000 portable install can be found under foobar2000\configuration\ and if using a standard install then it's found under C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000\configuration\ (Warning! backup your existing Core.cfg file in the foobar2000 configuration folder) 

Or you can as usual grab one of the preconfigured packages which also have been updated:

Forward config:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63937904/foobar2000.v1.1.6.Dolby.Headphone-RPGWiZaRD/foobar2000.v1.1.6.Dolby.Headphone.%28Forward%29-RPGWiZaRD.zip

Laid-back config: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63937904/foobar2000.v1.1.6.Dolby.Headphone-RPGWiZaRD/foobar2000.v1.1.6.Dolby.Headphone.%28Laid-back%29-RPGWiZaRD.zip