My guide to making foobar pretty (usable).

[mojo]

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Originally Posted by Chri5peed Another thing I've noticed is that it sounds better, quite a lot too. I'd recommend using KS to anyone, ASIO is not working for me?

I'd have to agree. KS causes foobar to crash for me, but ASIO works okay with ASIO4ALL. KS works okay in WinAMP though. The sound is noticably better than the standard kmixer output on both.

 

[Chri5peed]

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Originally Posted by TheMarsVolta Well I owe you a beer then. I spent over an hour last night going through them all, can't decide on which one I want to use

I spent a few hours going through them, it was an enjoyable task.

Shame the fcs' only affect the central playlist part. It'd be cool if the fonts and colours became the default for everything...I mean you can change them manually but its time-consuming and for example on my fcs(spex04 - mazy's mod 3) there are different colours for each band name.

 

[TheMarsVolta]

The foobar skins fcs rar file has been sent to ComfyCan and DaveFr.
Also, the torch has been passed to ComfyCan for forwarding duties

 

[SerbyHT]

How do you guys deal with Foobar's ASIO output?
I had to have mine resample music at 96khz in order for foobar to play, and, I'm not sure that that's necessary. Besides, it's eating up around half my CPU..

(btw, foobar 092, - output SB Audigy 2 ZS ASIO 24/96 [C000], in order to have it play, I had to set the soundcard's sampling rate at 96khz, and use the foobar DSP for Resampling [PPHS] at 96khz ultra, audigy 2 zs, mp3, mpc, flac, Barton @ 2200mhz)

 

[Chri5peed]

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Originally Posted by SerbyHT How do you guys deal with Foobar's ASIO output? I had to have mine resample music at 96khz in order for foobar to play, and, I'm not sure that that's necessary. Besides, it's eating up around half my CPU..

Really? Somethings wrong. My foobar uses about 2/3% of my CPU.

 

[SerbyHT]

It is wrong. I suppose it's the extra - sampling. But the ASIO won't play without resampling at this frequency. I'm not sure what's to be done..

 

[slinger1182]

Yep Serby, it is the resampling that's eating the CPU. If ASIO doesn't work for you, try kernel streaming. It is about the same as ASIO, SQ wise.

 

[SerbyHT]

Thanks for the ideea, though I'm not sure how to use Kernel as output. Little update.By disabling the "Ultra Button" at the resampling dsp, Foobar eats around 2 - 10 % of my Cpu. Mostly 6. But, when going to the next track, it gets about 10-20% of the Cpu, for a second.
:|

 

[Chri5peed]

I'm using Kernel Streaming because ASIO didn't work for some reason?


It was so easy to set up, there are several options for output in foobar V0.9.2. About 5 or 6 DS' with the various Juli@ ports and the same but with KS in front.

I selected the KS option for Juli@s optical-out(CH34) and when I first played a song with it, I got a message box basically saying Kernel Streaming can be unstable, I clicked 'ok' and have had no problems since.

Nothing on my computer has any sound now, e.g. if someone gives me a youtube video, its mute, unless I change to DS in foobar.

 

[TheMarsVolta]

Been playing with the basic layout that HiFire suggested.
Highly recommend adding the "quicksearch" function, saves a lot of scrolling through the main album list all the time. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...howtopic=44012

Also "track info" panel is nice too. http://stephan.kochen.nl/proj/foobar2000.html

Any other goodies people have discovered?

 

[Patu]

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Originally Posted by c0mfortably_numb Maybe it's a compatibility issue with the juli@? I have an emu0404, and it worked from the beta all the way to the stable release. Your using the ASIO from foobar's site right?

Yes from foobar2000 site. And ASIO works just fine with 0.8.3.

 

[Cortes]

this foobar is driving me crazy. Is there an 'easy' way to sort the playlists by name?. I mean, I want to order the different playlists by name, NOT the content of each playlist.
Thanks!

 

[Rempert]

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Originally Posted by SerbyHT Thanks for the ideea, though I'm not sure how to use Kernel as output. Little update.By disabling the "Ultra Button" at the resampling dsp, Foobar eats around 2 - 10 % of my Cpu. Mostly 6. But, when going to the next track, it gets about 10-20% of the Cpu, for a second. :|

You should have the option of resampling either to 48khz or 96khz with an Audigy2. There are also several different resampling plugins to choose from.

 

[HiFiRE]

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Originally Posted by Cortes this foobar is driving me crazy. Is there an 'easy' way to sort the playlists by name?. I mean, I want to order the different playlists by name, NOT the content of each playlist. Thanks!

So you have several playlists open at once and you want to sort the tabs? Hm. I think this would have to be done manually.

 

[Ihmemies]

Heh, I succumbed under foobar's prowess yesterday. Heh, I haven't seen such an amazing program for long time. I tinkered with columns ui & album covers plugins and my foobar currently looks like this:

http://www.kotiposti.net/ihmemies/roina/foobar4.png

My winamp had basically the same functionality (info, playlist, albumlist & control buttons), but since foobar eats same amount of memory as winamp, but starts faster, I use foobar. Also plugin management is pretty obscure in winamp, DSP stacking screen in foobar is very nice