foobar audio player how-to thread

[Solve]

This is a more stable chainer http://www.ctaf.free.fr/multifxvst.rar
No one is good but its free

[loninappleton]

Not much going on threads that I watch so tell me if this is off topic. How did the USB DAC become preferred by bypassing the onboard chip(s) on the motherboard or soundcard? Is this discussed in some thread from the beginning?

[loninappleton]

This is a thread bump. Anything going on with Foobar lately that's new and amazing?
Last post in here was in November. I've been using Foo regularly for streaming Ogg music broadcasts.

But I've had it hang up trying to load some streams that Winamp can handle. This may be a bandwidth problem but unknown.

I'm running v1.03

[technofreak]

Hi all,

I've been using Foobar2000 for about a year now - excellent software in my opinion.

On one hand, EQ without a doubt is a useful tool, but on the other hand I strongly suggest not to use the Foobar's built in EQ - it's a bit strange. On the gripping hand, VST wrapper with Electri-Q is excellent and strongly recommended to get the best out of any speaker.

Also, ASIO output plugin is available. Extract into <foobar2000_installation_path>\components. You can add and edit output devices under preferences>playback>output>ASIO virtual devices. Activate under preferences>playback>output {output device}. Also activate Convert mono to stereo plugin under DSP controls, otherwise mono files may not play (as I learned the hard way, in the middle of a gig when we suddenly needed that mono .WAV to be played through foobar. Strange gigs, I know.).

You can add VU/peakmeters, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope and spectrogram to GUI as means to see what's going on in your music. Very useful tools, even though the spectrum analyzer goes down to only 50 Hz. You can edit layout if you enable editing mode - View>layout>enable layout editing mode. It's actually rather simple, just right-click on any GUI element to see the editing menu. You can even add a scratchbox to experiment without messing up current setup;view>layout>create scratchbox. Happy experimenting!

Another useful plugin, that also is aesthetically pleasing: waveform seekbar.

For example, this is how my setup looks like:

[loninappleton]

Yes I have gotten VST with George Yohng's plugin whatevs and am using the classic EQ plugin.

Actually I like stuff real plain with no graphics. I'd eliminate all the dancing level meter activity if I could in Winamp too. They are distracting after a short period of time.

Winamp has a right/left slider and that's something I haven't been able to find in Foobar.

How can I save a classic EQ setting as default? This escapes me. I reload the VST and the setting for radio streams has gone back to default.

[forr]

Hi technofreak,

---You can add and edit output devices under preferences>playback>output>ASIO virtual devices. Activate under preferences>playback>output {output device}.---

I set my configuration this way, it works fine. However, Foobar does never remember this configuration when I restart the computer ? Do you have an idea why ?

[loninappleton]

My guess, though I haven't done it, is to change the one called default to the
settings you want. I'm speaking for Classic EQ but look under presets in Foo and see if there is one called default.

[oshifis]

Why isn't this thread moved to PC Based?

[rbroer]

Foobar is a great freeware program

Handy for cross encoding one lossless format into another (APE, AAC -> FLAC etc.)
Get the older "special" version to conveniently edit tag info per track.

Many other options.


Is in my list of favorite freeware programs :

Foobar multi audio tool
VideoLAN VLC player
Foxit PDF reader
FireFox browser
7Zip archiver
Notepad++ editor

[loninappleton]

Originally Posted by oshifis

Why isn't this thread moved to PC Based?

I don't know. Perhaps this was in play when I made the original thread now quite old.