[LFC_SL]

Returned to Foobar after I visited the foobar gallery thread and discovered plugins on hydrogenaudio forum on google

I have both MPC and VLC for video. I think the codec pack I installed for MPC (K-Lite, some people use CCC - is there a difference?) means MPC support more medium - plus I have real + quicktime alternative which is always a good thing. But I find on certain DVDs, VLC will play it back better than MPC. I dunno. I now use VLC for DVDs and MPC for everything else

 

[lutwey]

maaaaaan, i'm so ignorant about this, idefinetly know itunes and wmp

but foobar wat the hell???

 

[Gatticus]

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Originally Posted by johnnylexus /img/forum/go_quote.gif Can someone explain what "asio out plugin" is all about? Do only certain soundcards support it?

The asio output plugin is a way to bypass the windows kernel mixer (Kmixer) so that the software media player (MediaMonkey, Foobar etc.) has a direct path to the soundcard driver. Many people prefer the sound quality doing it this way. I don't hear a big difference but there is a slight difference.

http://www.coyotes.bc.ca/SoundCards.html

 

[Redo]

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Originally Posted by Gatticus /img/forum/go_quote.gif The asio output plugin is a way to bypass the windows kernel mixer (Kmixer) so that the software media player (MediaMonkey, Foobar etc.) has a direct path to the soundcard driver. Many people prefer the sound quality doing it this way. I don't hear a big difference but there is a slight difference. http://www.coyotes.bc.ca/SoundCards.html

The real advantage with ASIO is to achieve bit-perfect playback. It's practically impossible without skipping the Kmixer (or is impossible). Why should I spend all my time and all that disk space ripping to lossless if I can't play it back bitperfect?


And I do notice quite a difference when switching off ASIO. All more the reason to use foobar2000 w/ ASIO

 

[Dashed]

I'm quite happy with Foobar and Media Player Classic for my media playback needs.

 

[johnnylexus]

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnnylexus /img/forum/go_quote.gif Can someone explain what "asio out plugin" is all about? Do only certain soundcards support it?

bump

 

[kingsqueak]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_stream_input_output

Goooooogle

 

[Gatticus]

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Originally Posted by Redo /img/forum/go_quote.gif And I do notice quite a difference when switching off ASIO. All more the reason to use foobar2000 w/ ASIO

But I can use MediaMonkey with ASIO too. MediaMonkey has much better organizational options than foobar. Try searching for one specific song in your
20,000 song library with foobar, with MediaMoneky I can find it in a second or so.

 

[NiceCans]

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Originally Posted by technobarbie /img/forum/go_quote.gif Another vote for Jriver Media Center.

x3
I have been very pleased with the performance enhancements in MC12, it is amazingly fast even with HUGE libraries. As good as it is as a player, it is even better as a file manager & tagger, etc.

 

[pirus]

winamp with a lossless plugin does it for me

i find itunes and other media players to run pretty slow on my computer