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Re: Foobar2000

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I downloaded it on my mobile device, because I have the issue where some songs are very quiet and some are very loud, so I was looking for a volume normalizer and this is the one (that's zero cost) that was recommended, but I'm not sure if I can tell the difference between using this one and just the normal Metro Music Player.

So if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or if there are better (zero cost) tools that could fix my issue, please advise (I'm looking for Android tools as I don't have a usable Windows/MacOS/Linux machine)

Re: Foobar2000

#114

I'm surprised that AIMP hasn't been mentioned yet. It's also a great old school audio player that was released back in 2006. I transitioned to it when Winamp development was fizzling out. Not sure when that was but I've been using it for a long time. With the 'Pandemic' skin it looks like classic Winamp and has support for visualizations and many other features people tended to like from Winamp. https://www.aimp.ru/…

AIMP is great! I have using it with my Android phone.

Re: Foobar2000

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> foobar2000 was my go to player It is still my go to player, it works great in Windows 10.

And it has iOS/Android versions too, which is great if you still prefer file-based players: https://www.foobar2000.org/mobile

I can recommend Blackplayer to fill that niche in a more modern (yet still simplistic) way. I don't see it mentioned much but it is regularly updated and extremely feature-dense.

Re: Foobar2000

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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…

A remnant of simpler times. Foobar and VLC, any other software that has always worked and remained pretty much the same?

IrfanView. I tried replacing it several times with something slicker-looking, but no other picture viewer is as fast as IrfanView.

Re: Foobar2000

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>The SDK is there to allow people to add whatever features they want. If there is something they can't add with what the SDK provides, then either it requires changes breaking component compatibility (which only I could do even if the source was open), or person trying to implement the feature is doing something seriously wrong (happens very often). "Implementing that feature would break component compatibility" is n…

The maintainers of foobar have always been very opinionated, for better or worse. I recall it pushed away a chunk of the community at least once in the past. It's just one of those types of projects.

It seems like those types of projects are fairly common in Windows-land, but not at all for other OSes.

Re: Foobar2000

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foobar2000 is so good, and so unmatched, especially with its plugins ecosystem, I use it for my music playback needs under wine on Linux.

Meh. Audacious + pulseaudio/alsa-plugins >>>>> foobar 2000.

That for GUI.

If you like CLI, mpd+any UI it's a beast. Mocp if you are a minimalist.

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