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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2014, 02:17:05 PM »
I liked Fidelia out of Mac players, vst host built-in, and more refined sound was why i used it instead of Itunes. The looks are hate/love thing. I personally like software as minimalistic as possible.
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2014, 11:20:54 PM »
PC here.


iTunes is intentionally broken on PC. Slow, pauses on start, etc. Seems like it was written in basic running on an IBM XT.


JRMC. Mainly for convenience. All add-ons I need are there. MadVR for video. Supported all the strange video formats used for porn. Two parametric EQs. Real time PCM to DSD and DSD to PCM conversion. Variable DSD filters. Bitrate conversion. Upsampling. Automatic album cover pull down. Crossfeed that doesn't screw up FR. I other words, I don't need to fuck with it. And there are no dialog boxes that pop up whenever I plug in my iPhone.
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2014, 01:35:27 AM »
Foobar. 

Versatile, minimalistic, and quite nice-looking when you find a good skin.
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2014, 02:00:26 AM »
Foobar for me too.


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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2014, 02:26:13 AM »
Nice skin.

Star ratings are a must for me, though.

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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2014, 06:45:57 AM »
I used to be a hardcore Foobar user but I've switched to JRMC on my windows machines. I'm using Audirvana+ on OSX and HQplayer on Linux.
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2014, 09:24:10 AM »
@jrmc users, do you set it to "flatline overflows" or "clip protection" when just using crossfeed and no other eq or dsp plugins?
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2014, 02:25:00 PM »
Foobar2000. Tried a few others. Foobar is fast. Plugins for Crossfeed, EQ, DSD. Customisable shortcut controls (my keyboard has a volume / mute knob, a couple keys do pause/play).  Plays from RAM buffers. Very light load.

Can skin if u want too.
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2014, 05:34:58 PM »
foobar 2000 doesn't have J river crossfeed though :D
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Re: Media Players and iTunes Alternatives
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2014, 07:33:28 PM »
I’m really turning into a crossfeed junkie with TB Isone.  Now ‘regular’ (no crossfeed) sounds like bad surround sound or positioning your speakers at 9 and 3 o’clock.  But like everything, it can be better/worse depending on the recording.  And sometimes the “headphone effect” can be immersive.  I’ll have to go back to JRMC’s crossfeed and see if I can replicate something close to it via Isone.
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