Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. If you value lightness and functionality over appearance in an audio player, dont hesitate: foobar2000 is the program youre looking for. But if I wanted a player with better extendability, I would use WinAmp instead. A collection of sets and collections of skins (replacement interfaces) for the long-lived computer audio program Winamp. I like XMPlay because it gets the job done, and it doesn't demand resources for features I'll never use. I use Modern skin on my main machine and keep it docked to the top in while in a. The software is only a medium for playback, and thus can only try to mold the sound to the user's preference. I use winamp because its very stable, can be run on an older system, and the interface is really customizable. How it sounds more or less depends on the hardware, (every bit of it - especially choice of speakers) and not the software. The software itself generally does very little to determine audio quality, if anything at all - the choice of encoding, the method of recording, etc. XMPlay is only compatible with a percentage of these. WinAmp has a much larger support community, and thus a much larger database of extensions available to it. Thus, it is minimal and "vanilla." You can extend it somewhat with cross-compatible WinAmp plug-ins, but in terms of extendability, WinAmp wins hands-down. XMPlay is obviously designed for people who consider audio playback a background task. I really like how light weight Foobar is, winamp is good too, but the easy integration of add-ons for Foobar is why I use it now. You can't really classify this as neither good nor bad, because it's going to boil down to:Ģ.) The extendability available to the player Sometimes use columns UI, but dont really need to any more. Unless you extend it with plug-ins and DSP effects, you simply have basic playback and nothing more. I use a basic install of foobar with a msn plugin and a audioscrobbler plugin. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.XMPlay is pretty "vanilla" when it comes to audio playback. So how do I get the libraries of either Foobar2000 or Winamp to sort on more than one sort term? What I’d like to do is sort on album (if I could figure out how to tag albums) and track so that my entire library is sorted by band, album or date, and track…then I can simply pick an album to play from my library without having to build a playlist for every freakin’ album. If I sort by track title, all of the A songs are listed first. If I sort by track number, all of the track 1’s for all shows play. The problem with not having an album assigned is that, when I add my shows to the library into Foobar2000 or Winamp, since I have no album tags, my files aren’t sorted conveniently in either player, so there’s no way to sort or play my shows so that the songs play consecutively as they were played during the show. Anybody know how to tell the tagger to do that? I’d like the show name tagged as the album…this is how I do it in my itunes directory. When I tag my FLACs, Live Show Tagger never assigns an ‘album’ in the metadata. Naturally, I’ve got the information text file that contains the tagging info (setlist, band, date, etc) saved the same directory as the FLACs. I used Foobar2000 then decided to try my Winamp. Sometimes the year and band name are reversed, depending on whether my drive is my own recordings archive or my phish archive. I have had Nulsoft Winamp Pro for years, unused, until this week. The file structure on my harddrive is Year Recorded (e.g. foobar2000 is light weight, launches quickly and within a second of hitting the song you want, it will start playing. I keep all of my shows in separate subdirectories on my harddrive. So what’s up with that? Why won’t track titles display in Foobar2000 and Winamp instead of filenames? What’s strange to me is that this doesn’t happen all of the time…now and then the song titles are properly displayed in Foobar2000 and Winamp. So Problems 1 is, when Live Show Tagger tags my FLACS, it seems to interpret song titles correctly because prior to accepting the tags, I get a window that displays all of the song titles, but then after they’re written into the metadata, they USUALLY get displayed in the players (both Foobar2000 and Winamp) as the filename, not the song titles. I have three problems I hope someone can help me with… I expect that my questions have all been encountered by everyone and they’ve been asked before, but seriously I’ve searched both our archives (which was rough going using the webrowser method since our search tool is down) and the web and come up empty. I’m using Foobar2000 along with the Live Show Tagger plugin, so I’m still a noob at this. For various reasons none of which was intentional, I hadn’t started tagging my FLACs until recently.
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