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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2012, 11:19:09 PM »
Mediamonkey, mainly because it supports WASAPI and it's really customizable. Foobar was a hassle to customize, most of the files necessary were discontinued.
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2012, 12:53:36 AM »
musicbee sounds nice as well as xmplay.
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2012, 01:12:37 AM »
when in windows: foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
when in macos: clementine - http://www.clementine-player.org/

both have good format support, rather lightweight and neat features such as file convertion and lyrics etc. soundwise I don't notice much of a difference if at all. but FLAC support is important!
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2012, 05:46:09 AM »
Foobar is my primary player. It now supports WASAPI Event Style as well as KS, and any format you can name. It also plays SACD ISOs, DSDIFF and DSF files directly, I don't know of any other Windows player that can do that.

JRiver to my ears sounds worse than Foobar unless memory playback is enabled, then they are about equal. Supposedly you can use memory playback with Foobar, but it's not obvious how to do it. You have to set the buffer size to a massive amount, then I think it works but I haven't tried it. cPlay is a very lightweight RAM player that is supposed to sound excellent. JPlay in hibernation/overdrive is unmatched, but it's also incredibly clunky as once it starts you have no control over it, you can't even stop it.

With Fidelizer, Foobar is pretty close to JPlay when in normal mode.
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2012, 06:04:02 AM »
Yes, I like my 64GB of RAM.   ;)
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2012, 06:26:14 AM »
I use JRiver primarily.  Solid gapless playback, WASAPI and ASIO, works properly with a variety of interfaces and DACs, great library management so I can organize my music and find what I want to listen to, VST plugin support, and can play DVDs with the same audio goodness as my music.

Foobar is also useful.  But doesn't really have library management that can compare with JRiver.  I use Foobar mostly as an audio utility.  If I use it for playback it is usually so I can use a specific Foobar extension (like HDCD decoding) that JRiver doesn't have.

Both JRiver and Foobar do perfect gapless playback, do WASAPI or ASIO properly with a variety of different interfaces or DACs, reliable playback, less prone to glitching than some other players.  All good stuff for quality audio playback.  A big plus for JRiver is the much better library management and library browsing, and the DVD playback.
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2012, 06:59:24 AM »
I find Foobar's library abilities to be more than adequate, it just takes a bit of elbow grease to get there. Out of the box, the interface is basically a disaster.

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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2012, 07:16:23 AM »
The only problem with foobar is that it still has playback glitches with my toslink dac. Musicbee has no such problems and sounds a little better IMO.
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2012, 07:35:00 AM »
Foobar does have some library management.  And with some fiddling you can customize some of its library management features to suit some of your own needs.  But I still don't consider its library management to be adequate, especially compared against what I can do in JRiver.

Part of my preference for JRiver is that I have a large library that includes classical as well as rock and jazz and other music.  Organizing classical music requires some special considerations that don't quite mesh with the way you would organize rock or pop.  The skins and other customizations for Foobar don't do much for classical music and don't help in organizing or searching classical music.  If I had a smaller library that fit the rock/pop way of doing things I would probably like Foobar a bit more than I do.

I currently have Foobar set up with the DarkOne theme.
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Re: What PC audio players do you guys use?
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2012, 07:45:45 AM »
Quote from: donunus on December 09, 2012, 07:16:23 AM
The only problem with foobar is that it still has playback glitches with my toslink dac. Musicbee has no such problems and sounds a little better IMO.

I tried MusicBee about a week ago.  Just to see what the current version is like.  I imported my entire library and I was able to customize the view to make use of some of my custom tags.  I found its library management to be better than Foobar for my needs and easy enough to configure.

I had problems with playback.  My current USB DAC is an EMU 0204 USB interface that has sucky drivers.  When doing WASAPI and switching between 16/44.1 and 24/88.2 it would play at either half speed or double speed.  Maybe that behavior is due in part to the sucky EMU drivers.  But Foobar and JRriver are able to switch sample rates properly when using the EMU. 
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