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Re: Foobar2000

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Post by layer8 » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:05 PM UTC

pentagrama wrote: post #29

Back in the day this was the hardcore nerds' Winamp!

Back in the day? It still is.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by enthdegree » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:05 PM UTC

The author on why Foobar2000 is not open source: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,31222.msg270982.html#...

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by rcfox » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:06 PM UTC

shmichael wrote: post #33

rcfox wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a phrase that fits into a hex value. 0xdeadbeef, 0xcafebabe, etc.

How do you fit r into hex?

I don't know. How?

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by evanhughes » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:07 PM UTC

I use foobar2000 to play back my super high quality dsd files. So far the best option to listen via my headphone amp.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by qwerty456127 » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:10 PM UTC

imiric wrote: post #26

It's great to see that fb2k is still around and well :) It's remarkable how they've kept the same UI since its inception, 21 years ago. It was clean, simple and intuitive back then, and still is today. Same goes for the website, now that I think of it. A true testament that simplicity trumps trend-chasing. It was my main music player after Winamp released the awful version 3.0, and I never looked back. I don't use Wi…

Despite somehow liking WinAmp 2 more than WinAmp 3, I could never understand why do people consider WinAMP 3 awful. Nevertheless I just switched to foobar2000 on Windows and DeaDBeeF on Linux because their UIs just are perfectly bullshit-free practical pragmatic tools and I came to feel I want a tool rather than a show.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by thesuitonym » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:10 PM UTC

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #38

I love Foobar but it does not whip the llama's ass. Incidentally, Winamp is apparently going open source: https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co...

I wonder if this will be the new Winamp-in-nothing-but-name or the old-new Winamp 5x builds, or even older builds?

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by justin66 » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:10 PM UTC

stuartd wrote: post #32

justin66 wrote: post #18

Why does the author backport fixes to the 1.5 and 1.6 versions? What's significant about recent changes that makes those worth keeping alive?

They mention one reason in the release notes: > unintended SSE CPU requirement present in previous releases has been removed.

Removing that requirement makes sense to me (in the current release or the previous releases), but I'm curious why the previous releases are deemed worth maintaining alongside the current release.

What did they do feature-wise in newer versions that makes the old versions desirable to some people, to the point that a user would prefer to upgrade them rather than upgrade to the newest version? It's not about system compatibility: the 2.x line supports Windows all the way back to Windows 7.

I'm content to dig into the docs but I was wondering about people's personal experiences with it. One hint in the release notes is that some, but not all, old plugins work in the new version...

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by thesuitonym » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:12 PM UTC

I didn't realize Foobar2000 had a Mac release. And here I've been using Apple Music like a fool!

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by tasty_freeze » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:13 PM UTC

SeriousM wrote: post #30

happytoexplain wrote: post #23

Still my daily driver when I'm at my PC.

Where do you get your music from? Back in the old days we used cd rips and sharing platforms to get the mp3s from but nowadays streaming got so convenient.

I'm not the person you are replying to but ... I started buying CDs in 1985 to replace my vinyl collection. Around 2001 is when I ripped all my CDs (800 or so) to mp3, but I kept buying new CDs and ripping them up until CD players disappeared as a standard PC feature. I now buy mp3s from amazon or bandcamp or wherever.

Even though I have spotify, I prefer to listen to my own mp3s. The only time I use spotify is when someone says, "You should check out ". I'll listen to the album a few times on spotify, and if I like it, I will buy the album and then listen to my own mp3s.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by themerone » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:13 PM UTC

qwerty456127 wrote: post #45

imiric wrote: post #26

It's great to see that fb2k is still around and well :) It's remarkable how they've kept the same UI since its inception, 21 years ago. It was clean, simple and intuitive back then, and still is today. Same goes for the website, now that I think of it. A true testament that simplicity trumps trend-chasing. It was my main music player after Winamp released the awful version 3.0, and I never looked back. I don't use Wi…

Despite somehow liking WinAmp 2 more than WinAmp 3, I could never understand why do people consider WinAMP 3 awful. Nevertheless I just switched to foobar2000 on Windows and DeaDBeeF on Linux because their UIs just are perfectly bullshit-free practical pragmatic tools and I came to feel I want a tool rather than a show.

WinAmp 3 was bloated, slow, and unstable. It was bad enough that they threw out the code and released WinAmp 5 which was based on the code from WinAmp 2.