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post #1 of 10
8/13/11 at 7:52pm
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Hey guys i was just wondering what program you use to listen to your music on your computer.


right now i dont have a AMP/DAC setup yet but i still would like to know what with a full set up using my computer as a reciever for my audio equipment should i use?


I dont really like iTunes (It never sounds right), i honestly like the stock windows media player because i can change up alot of the sound equalizer and outputs to sound perfect.  But VLC plays .Flac files and dont like switching up players just to listen to a certain albums.

 

What should I do?

 

Also: I got annoyed that i converted some of my losless files to mp3 but still have the original files in their native .flac format.  Should i change them back?

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post #2 of 10
8/13/11 at 9:58pm

foobar2000 is the program to use for audio playback

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post #3 of 10
8/14/11 at 4:15pm
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does it play both .flac and .mp3?

 

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post #4 of 10
8/14/11 at 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by gabru678 View Post

does it play both .flac and .mp3?

 



Yep...it plays just about every codec. 

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post #5 of 10
8/15/11 at 7:35am
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Thats great! 
As a budding audiophile (I didnt have the budget before)
I'm sort of noobish to all this, but thanks for all your help.

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post #6 of 10
8/15/11 at 8:05am

My personal main source is a dual booting PC so Windoze = Foobar2k and Ubuntu = VLC though i also use VLC for movies on the former as well beerchug.gif


Edited by trog - 8/15/11 at 8:08am
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post #7 of 10
8/15/11 at 10:43am
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Wow foobar is great!
Even though i liked winap's ease of use, this might grow on me.  Might take some time to get it perfect.  Anybody know where i can get the basic levels of customizations?

I watched some youtube videos that showed how custom you can get it but does anybody know of a beginner guide or anything?

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post #8 of 10
8/15/11 at 1:36pm
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Originally Posted by gabru678 View Post

Wow foobar is great!
Even though i liked winap's ease of use, this might grow on me.  Might take some time to get it perfect.  Anybody know where i can get the basic levels of customizations?

I watched some youtube videos that showed how custom you can get it but does anybody know of a beginner guide or anything?



There are both threads and wikis about it, like this one: http://www.head-fi.org/wiki/foobar2000-appearance-customization-skins-themes-configs

Though, that one is mainly about user interface customization, which you probably should set first to your liking before dwelving further into component customization.

And yes, I very much agree that foobar2000 is an amazing audio player.

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post #9 of 10
8/15/11 at 1:42pm

Beside Foobar there are other media players you can try for free:

J River Media Jukebox: http://www.jriver.com/mj/

MusicBee: http://www.getmusicbee.com/

 

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post #10 of 10
8/15/11 at 3:36pm

I'm big on Foobar, both in its official distribution and pkshan's user-hostile HE variation of it. Every once in a while I'll experiment with XMPlay and uLilith, without yet having formed a definitive opinion about them.

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