loserica
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Foobar2000 is my favourite player.
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But is there any advantage to using Foobar over Winamp as the player?
It all comes down to personal preference and what you want your player to accomplish for your tasks. I used Winamp for years, but once I started tweaking Foobar and adding components, configs and getting used to it years back, I have never looked back. I have a lot of gapless albums (Mixed House, Trance, Live CDs etc.) that require perfect gapless playback once ripped. Foobar does it flawlessly. IIRC, Winamp only does it using DS (Direct Sound). Any other output, it would give a small break (gap) between the tracks. That is just one main reason I switched years ago. Many tools to play with and organized, once you get the hang of it, it is a lot of fun.
In reference to WAVs. They don't retain metadata (tags). There is a way to retain the metadata if you use cues and a couple of programs. I archive my CDs in this fashion as a single WAV file w/ cue for easy CD burning. I also split the tracks (FLAC) for use with my Foobar library. Whenever I want to listen to a quick album, I just click the single WAV cue and voila, I have tags to boot.
Here is an album I was just archiving. Complete album, single file with cue (WAV) & album art.
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But is there any advantage to using Foobar over Winamp as the player?
It all comes down to personal preference and what you want your player to accomplish for your tasks. I used Winamp for years, but once I started tweaking Foobar and adding components, configs and getting used to it years back, I have never looked back. I have a lot of gapless albums (Mixed House, Trance, Live CDs etc.) that require perfect gapless playback once ripped. Foobar does it flawlessly. IIRC, Winamp only does it using DS (Direct Sound). Any other output, it would give a small break (gap) between the tracks. That is just one main reason I switched years ago. Many tools to play with and organized, once you get the hang of it, it is a lot of fun.
In reference to WAVs. They don't retain metadata (tags). There is a way to retain the metadata if you use cues and a couple of programs. I archive my CDs in this fashion as a single WAV file w/ cue for easy CD burning. I also split the tracks (FLAC) for use with my Foobar library. Whenever I want to listen to a quick album, I just click the single WAV cue and voila, I have tags to boot.
Here is an album I was just archiving. Complete album, single file with cue (WAV) & album art.
There is actually no reason to rip like that, if setup correctly EAC will rip to FLAC and make an accompanying cue file that when used by a program to burn, will convert everything back bit perfect to wav and then burn it.
http://blowfish.be/eac
this is a wonderful resource for EAC setup.
As far as a bitrate goes, it should be on the highest settings your dac will support via usb, an error will probably appear if you set it too high but i'm not familiar with your dac so have a read through it's manual/specs.
@jakebake: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_wasapi , add it to the components folder then restart foobar and it'll appear as an option in you preferences menu under, playback/output, if not then there's an external problem. Also if you go to view/layout/quick setup and select one of the options starting with album list + properties etc. then two boxes at the bottom of the album list will enable you to search through the library. If that doesn't work then i've forgotten about a component i've added over the years and i'll look it up.
As for playlists, you edit those within foobar from the tunes in your library, foobar will remember any new playlist you add for next time but i haven't found a way to add files to a playlist that aren't in the library.