foobar2000

[elnero]

foobar2000 is an interesting new mp3 player I came across today. It's in early beta (it's gone from 0.28 to 0.29a since this morning) so it's glitchy and the interface is absolutely horrid but it does sound good.

Get it here and please post your thoughts. I'm curious if everyone will find it sounds as good as I have.

I wasn't really sure where to post this so please move as necessary.

From Warp2Search: Quote:

Foobar2000 Media Player is a very very recommendable player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski who is or used to work on Winamp3. Who really knows. FB2000 uses a plain and simple UI - no skins, no fuss. Current version is 0.28 beta which does not require an installation. Filesize is 399kb, while in playback mode the player approximately consumes 1.9Mbyte of your RAM which is so much less compared to Winamp or MS Media Player. Foobar2000 feature list: Supported format: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD (needs foo_mod.dll), SPC (needs foo_spc.dll) 32bit floatingpoint audio processing pipeline, with 6dB hard limiter and conversion to 16/24bit (dithered) at the end. Lossy formats (MP3, Vorbis, MPC) are decoded directly to 32bit FP so there's no clipping Transparent rar/zip reading (slow) Full unicode support, new playlist format (m3u8) storing international filenames properly (using UTF-8) Runs *only* on Win2K / XP or newer Builtin SSRC resampler component (DSP) Reads APEv2 tags from MP3 files (id3v2 is not supported and will never be) Fully customizable keyboard shortcuts, including global hotkeys Notice: player features constantly updating

 

[Flasken]

is it better than winamp+MAD?

 

[elnero]

I think it is, but then I thought Winamp3 was slightly better than Coolplayer (native MAD decoder). Mind you this seems to be a wider margin, there just seems to be more.

There's no install or anything, just download it extract it to a directory and give it a try.

 

[grinch]

oh man, this thing is cool. i saw this post a few days ago but didn't look at it due to the stupid title.

i'm listening to it now and i gotta say it's pretty impressive, although this is only my onboard soundcard at my work. i think the user interface is awesome. simplicity is the way to go, none of that bubble gum ********. my biggest problem is the display options. i really just want it to display the filename and i couldn't figure out how to do that. maybe in the next version..? i miss %7.

i *totally* dig the global key settings. i set my play/pause/stop to ctrl+shift+x/c/v and i haven't looked back. i found a plugin that does that for winamp and i'm totally addicted. i love being able to control my music while i'm playing counterstrike or in a game or something.. or if i just don't feel like reaching over to touch the mouse. quality is neat. this is an exciting new player.. i just need it to have dde abilities and i'll be all set. has anybody experimented with the built-in crossfeed yet?

[edit]: i used ctrl+x/c/v at first, forgetting that it killed my ability to copy cut and paste. heh, i'm dumb and forgot that my winamp plugin uses shift+ctrl.. oopsy.