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What does foobar2000 do for you that no other player does?
Canar
post Aug 31 2009, 19:59
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It's been a while since I've seen a thread like this, so I figured I'd float a simple question out there: What does foobar2000 do for you that no other player does?

For me, one such feature is the fact that I can confidently use foobar2000 as a basic mastering step when converting from high sampling-rate and/or high bit-depth down to CD audio or MP3. This is thanks to foobar2000's wonderful dither, limiters, resamplers, and streamlined conversion process.


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post May 8 2010, 14:05
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Plays music.

I'm dead serious, no other player does it on my PC. I don't launch them.


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post May 8 2010, 19:42
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QUOTE (Slotos @ May 8 2010, 14:05) *
Plays music.

I'm dead serious, no other player does it on my PC. I don't launch them.

hurrrrr

Anyway, before I got an iPod (5.5G, decent but I'm not too taken by the new ones) and later an OS X computer, I used foobar2000 for its sheer simplicity and format support (I used WavPack images with embedded cuesheets, and had tried other lossless and lossy formats). Also, its customisability offers a lot of potential, though I made little use of it.

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post May 9 2010, 00:50
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QUOTE (dv1989 @ May 8 2010, 20:42) *
hurrrrr

Looks like some elaboration is required.

I switched to foobar2000 in 2003 because of its ability to continue playback after restarting. Winamp did had this feature back then, but not for free, and I couldn't afford it (youth, low salary etc.). In last "say how awesome it is" thread I posted something, but really I'm in no position to compare it to anything else. I don't use anything else (last attempt was two years ago with linux players). Every feature I need I get either out of the box or through plugin.

Dunno if there's anything more awesome than satisfying every need, be it ripping, tagging, organizing, re-encoding or preview generation etc. for seven years. Because if someone's looking for a software - not a fancy gadget - this is the criteria, not the "oh I just copied features list". And those two are the only ones I could provide.


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- Canar   What does foobar2000 do for you that no other player does?   Aug 31 2009, 19:59
- - smkk   Foo_facets, title formatting, custom tags and the ...   Aug 31 2009, 20:10
|- - boombaard   QUOTE (smkk @ Aug 31 2009, 21:10) Foo_fac...   Sep 4 2009, 18:58
- - 2E7AH   It manages and presents my music collection in eas...   Aug 31 2009, 20:18
- - marc2003   i first got into foobar around 2005-2006 because i...   Aug 31 2009, 20:20
- - q-stankovic   I could mention so many things - but there is one ...   Aug 31 2009, 20:27
|- - MordredKLB   Foobar allows me to organize my large collection e...   Aug 31 2009, 20:34
- - DocBeard   Bear in mind that the only time in the past severa...   Aug 31 2009, 22:32
- - Rozzo   Foobar2000 doesn't crash so often as other pla...   Sep 1 2009, 00:40
- - shakey_snake   If this was a few years ago, I'd have said gro...   Sep 1 2009, 06:23
- - Olaf   I guess my answser is "everything". I tr...   Sep 1 2009, 07:59
- - buktore   I got laid because I use foobar. Seriously, th...   Sep 1 2009, 09:36
- - odyssey   I was eager to find a way that made it easy for me...   Sep 1 2009, 09:59
- - BoraBora   Mostly? Like q-stankovic, "Custom tags and th...   Sep 1 2009, 10:11
- - Anas   I'd say the most important aspect of foobar ar...   Sep 1 2009, 11:00
|- - odyssey   QUOTE (Anas @ Sep 1 2009, 12:00) But when...   Sep 1 2009, 12:54
- - mixcherry   QUOTE (Canar @ Aug 31 2009, 20:59) What d...   Sep 1 2009, 11:50
- - cmdrpaddy   I use foobar for 2 reasons . 1 - It's the onl...   Sep 1 2009, 14:15
- - mystNZ   Sure....for all the reasons mentioned in this thre...   Sep 1 2009, 17:41
- - seVen   I would say everything... but now for me for some ...   Sep 1 2009, 21:14
- - Takaji   It's the perfect audio program for power users...   Sep 1 2009, 21:19
- - Yotsuya   Custom Tags - I like how foobar allows me to effic...   Sep 2 2009, 03:06
- - Robertina   What foobar makes unique for me is what foobar2000...   Sep 2 2009, 05:16
- - s33m33   Speed & Customization Continuous development G...   Sep 2 2009, 05:53
- - TREX6662k6   It organizes my library, rips and encodes music an...   Sep 2 2009, 12:49
|- - shakey_snake   QUOTE (TREX6662k6 @ Sep 2 2009, 07:49) An...   Sep 3 2009, 00:28
- - mrinferno   hard core winamp convert myself...never really rea...   Sep 3 2009, 04:57
- - Kitsuned   I used to use winamp before changing to foobar whe...   Sep 3 2009, 12:52
- - leobeach   I would say customization ! I needed a PC in ...   Sep 3 2009, 14:12
- - tom_vienna_at   It's stable, doesn't use a lot of resource...   Sep 4 2009, 08:57
- - dhromed   Converted from Winamp because with 5.5 that totall...   Sep 5 2009, 19:58
- - krazy   Repeating some others but: - Tagz everywhere. eg. ...   Sep 7 2009, 19:16
- - fishgrit   I am a classical music nut. Classical music meta...   Sep 9 2009, 21:26
- - WolfenNights   Foobar lets me rename files by track and title, wh...   Dec 11 2009, 06:12
- - Digmen1   I said this a few years ago but It is Foobars Pla...   Dec 11 2009, 09:51
|- - garym   QUOTE (Digmen1 @ Dec 11 2009, 02:51) But ...   May 8 2010, 23:56
- - MartDann   It plays Music Long time ago i've switched f...   Dec 11 2009, 15:25
- - Finiderire   Long life to Foobar2000 and it's playlist ...   May 8 2010, 10:44
- - muzack   with wsh panel foobar2000 becomes a kind of framew...   May 8 2010, 12:32
- - Slotos   Plays music. I'm dead serious, no other playe...   May 8 2010, 14:05
|- - dv1989   QUOTE (Slotos @ May 8 2010, 14:05) Plays ...   May 8 2010, 19:42
|- - Slotos   QUOTE (dv1989 @ May 8 2010, 20:42) hurrrr...   May 9 2010, 00:50
- - LithTech   such sings as renaming files by the preset, useful...   May 8 2010, 14:23
- - accuratecopy   Switched from Winamp years ago. Now it's one o...   May 8 2010, 16:05
- - dv1989   Yeah, I think that's more the kind of thing th...   May 9 2010, 10:56
- - Meeko   For me, foobar keeps things simple and uncluttered...   May 10 2010, 15:36

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