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[castleofargh]

Foobar refuses to RIP entire Beatles 1 album. Tried 2 different PCs and also a plug in CD drive. Fails every time at second from last track. CD is brand new. What else can be done?
Hell! It won't even play "Let It Be" directly from the CD without skipping and locking-up. Is it possible to get a bad cd?

it's probably the music industry thanking you for buying the album by making your life harder with copy protections. "we can't stop pirates, so let's annoy honest people! muhahaha".
+1 for EAC. it's a powerful tool.

 

[Michgelsen]

There's also the possibility of using a CD player with digital output, hooked up to a digital input on your computer if you have one, and then record it digitally with Audacity. I ripped a few copy controlled CDs that way once. The CD player somehow interpolated the missing frames, while the ripping software either choked on them or ripped the tracks with missing frames in some places.

 

[canthearyou]

I don't think it's a copy protection system much as a faulty disc. It's been trying to rip for the last 3 hours using EAC. The disc drive sounds like a dot matrix printer.

Estimated time remaining 14:36:35

It finally gave up and skipped last track. It ripped 26 of 27 tracks successfully.

 

[AtrafCreez]

  Hi,
I had downloaded foobar200 yesterday and saw what was what.
My source for music is only YouTube.  I have many music lists.
Just now I went into google search to see if foobar and YouTube are compatible, I see there is a download.
being non technical  could you tell me how to set it up?
Thank You.

 

[PleasantSounds]

Download the YT component and double-click it. This should activate foobar and the component will be added to the components list. After that just press OK on the installed components window. Foobar will restart.

The next part is trickier, because you have to place the installed components somewhere on the Foobar window. The first step is enabling the layout editing (View -> Layout -> Enable layout editing mode).
 
I have no idea how your interface is organised, so I'm not able to be very specific. In my installation I have created a new tab in a window that displays album list, selection properties and a few other things (right-click on any of the tab headers and select "Add new tab"). Creating a new tab gives you a blank surface to work with. Next I added in it a horizontal splitter (right-click -> Add new UI element -> Splitter(top/bottom). Then in the upper part I have added the Youtube search component (it should be accessible in the same UI element list), and in the lower part the YT video. 
 
If you want to add several components in one window, you have to divide it's surface before you do that. Once you select UI element, it will take the entire available surface and to add something else first you will have to remove it, split the window and add new elements to the parts of the window. That's why it helps to know upfront how you want the GUI arranged.
 
When done don't forget to turn off the layout editing mode (the same way as turning it on) and restart foobar. After that you should be able to do searches in the newly added component and the results will display in the playlist window.
 
I don't use youtube playlists so don't ask me how to get that into Foobar.

 

[514077]

I don't think it's a copy protection system much as a faulty disc. It's been trying to rip for the last 3 hours using EAC. The disc drive sounds like a dot matrix printer.

Estimated time remaining 14:36:35

It finally gave up and skipped last track. It ripped 26 of 27 tracks successfully.

It probably is faulty.  I had a cd of Discovery by mike Oldfield, bought new, and the 1st two tracks were unplayable and unripable using DBPowerAmp.  It happens, I'm afraid.

 

[bwanaaa]

Hardware:
Win10 PC-> USB Gustard X20->schitt headphone amp-> Senns
 
Software:
Just updated foobar to 1.3.12, SACD decoder to  1.0.0, and still have ASIO support 2.1.2
 
Preferences in foobar:
Playback->output:                        ASIO: XMOS USB Audio 2.0 ST 3033
Playback->output-> ASIO:            use 64 bit ASIO drivers checked
Tools->SACD:                             DSD+PCM
 
DSD64 files play and the dac says it's a PCM stream.
 
 
Change preferences to:
Playback->output:                        ASIO: XMOS USB Audio 2.0 ST 3033
Playback->output-> ASIO:            use 64 bit ASIO drivers checked
Tools->SACD:                             DSD
 
Trying to play some DSD files -> no sound
playhead moves in foobar but no sound and no dancing bars in the meter
 
Change preferences to:
Playback->output:                        DSD: ASIO: XMOS USB Audio 2.0 ST 3033
Playback->output-> ASIO:            use 64 bit ASIO drivers checked
Tools->SACD:                             DSD
 
Trying to play some DSD files -> no sound
playhead moves in foobar but no sound and no dancing bars in the meter
 
Change preferences to:
Playback->output:                        DSD: ASIO: XMOS USB Audio 2.0 ST 3033
Playback->output-> ASIO:            use 64 bit ASIO drivers checked
Tools->SACD:                             DSD+PCM
 
Trying to play some DSD files -> no sound
playhead moves in foobar but no sound and DO GET dancing bars in the meter
 
I know this dac will decode DSD but am having this issue getting the foobar and pc to output it as DSD.

 

[canthearyou]

Change your device to "foo_dsd_asio".

 

[Michgelsen]

Or try it with the WASAPI output plugin instead of ASIO: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_wasapi

 

[shortstuff]

Where can I download "Real Bass Exciter" for foobar2k? I only see a way out of date "Bass Exciter" when googling...

 

[514077]

I have a minor problem with volume to my Hugo.  Sometimes, I hear some distortion in tracks that are, admittedly, overcooked in treble.  Is there a master volume in Foobar that I can try to reduce?  I can't use wasapi as I'm still on XP.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

I have a minor problem with volume to my Hugo.  Sometimes, I hear some distortion in tracks that are, admittedly, overcooked in treble.  Is there a master volume in Foobar that I can try to reduce?  I can't use wasapi as I'm still on XP.

Uh, yea, the big volume slider?

 

[seoman]

Is there any way to get a darker skin on foobar.
Nothing fancy just something like a night-mode to ease the eyes.

 

[514077]

 

I have a minor problem with volume to my Hugo.  Sometimes, I hear some distortion in tracks that are, admittedly, overcooked in treble.  Is there a master volume in Foobar that I can try to reduce?  I can't use wasapi as I'm still on XP.

Uh, yea, the big volume slider?

With all due respect, and not meaning to whine:  I'm a blind dude.  What slider.  If my JAWS (Job Access With Speech) program can't recognize the slider on the screen, I'm not going to see it either.  Thanks for the help, but if your answer was supposed to imply "Duh,"  it was misplaced, sir.
Is there a way I can access the 'slider'  through the menu choices?

 

[bwanaaa]

thank you. turns out my usb card was acting up so foobar could not talk to it properly. reinstalled drivers and now ok. i think i should have stuck with motherboard usb and bought a singxer instead. Still, this usb card(paul pang) is dead silent.