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razorhasyou

Feb 2 2004, 09:32

Hello!
Foobar rulez!

I have some nasty problems playing mp3's in foobar. (0.7 and 0.8)
Sometimes it gets quiet for 1 ms or 2... Seems like it's caching the files bad or something like that. When I try the same files in Winamp 5 (don't like winamp, had to try

) they work great.

Excrono

Feb 3 2004, 15:06

Try checking for any console messages that would indicate that Foobar is skipping any bad samples in the tracks you are playing back. Unlike other media players, Foobar is more sensitve to errors in MP3, and other compressed audio (however these usually only generate a console warning with no audible glitches.)

BlueScreenJunky

Feb 3 2004, 18:26

Maybe you could try increasing the buffer length : preferences >> playcback >> output, choose an output method (Directsound v2 is recommended), >> go to settings, and there increase the buffer length.

PS : of course it has probably nothing to do with that ^^;

Sebert

Feb 4 2004, 02:08

Foobar2000 Faq:

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Why is MP3 seeking so terribly slow?

The MP3 format doesn't natively support sample-accurate seeking, and sample accurate seeking is absolutely required by some other features of foobar2000 (such as .CUE playback). Therefore, MP3 seeking works by bruteforce-walking the MPEG stream chain (this gets faster when you pass through the same point of file for the second time because seektables have been built in the RAM). Unfortunately, seeking can't be optimized for CBR files (frame sizes aren't really constant because of padding used), or for VBR headers (both Xing and VBRI headers contain only approximated info and are useless for sample-exact seeking).

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