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Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?
Finally I'm fed up with VCL media player.
VCL Media Player's playlist feature has all kinds of issues, permission issues, sometimes hard to use... sometimes player lags while playing audio during gaming... tryed more buffering... also seems to consume lots of CPU. I'll google if something better is out there. I want: 1. Good playlist support, easy to add files and easy to open and play. 2. Fast start of player. 3. Low CPU usage. Any recommendations ? For PC. Bye, Skybuck. |
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Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?
Hmmm I am gonna give foobar2000 a try ! =D
Bye, Skybuck2000 ! =D |
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Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?
On Mon, 06 May 2019 23:35:23 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: Why is the program, in the first place, coded by Russians? - What is your soundchip doing. . . ASUS XONAR decided they'd make a side-project for "Hi-Fi Enthusiasts". They picked a better Cirus Logic chip, of regard, for the 3.5mm/1/8" analogue outputs. Or, on some Xonar boards, the TOSLINK-S/PDIF carrier is laser cable: Whereupon you pick your own DAC [decoder, hence, at the end of the laser cable]. I like perhaps a shrillness of CS8416 digital receiver chip, because I can tame it with both software EQ-ing through a hardware tube-buffered stage at the input to my amps. Or you use whatever flavor chip is surface mounted, if promoted, comes on your MB. Headphones. At a minimum to actually hear anything (approaching decent studio monitors occasionally at decent sales). I found model close-outs on both pairs, brands of speaker monitors I have (one new factory model closeout brand, another from stereo demo units in a brick-&-mortar going out of business. Along with Amps, mixers, & et al, that headphones do not require.) Gain riding. Start by not presuming effect modules, because the good ones are so unbelievably nifty, sound so good only to be [further] jacked-up. Stage compression and signal levels as appropriate for the professionals, their soundbooths and gear, as a work of potential entitled its own right. Listen for what they are doing, not your Fx modules (turned inordinately, usually, too high for too-hot processing). Sweet, spacious, with presence and dynamics. Recording studio time should not be cheap for a reason, and all mix-downs aren't necessarily for a $1000 of crap mandatorily added to a car purchase price. https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/ Proof is in the pudding. Vladislav Goncharov, seems I heard he was a Russian space rocket scientist, or something, doing sound-processing coding for passing spare time in pleasurable pursuits. Limiter No6, in any event, is a good example of a work of art in "gain riding". There is the good, no doubt even better yet, to the very technical about sound;- as there is the crap to a GUI player built around a boytoy's candy "skins". The forums mentioned do tell. It's actually a project, with no bottom in sight, more or less for progressing at your own pace, as to exactly how good you actually want, or can achieve, to make what's within that FLAC, for a derivative capacity of sound present to accurately render. Last, the golden mean: Can you honestly claim to have the ears of gold? |
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On Mon, 6 May 2019 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: Finally I'm fed up with VCL media player. I use Winamp. |
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Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?
On Tue, 07 May 2019 11:34:28 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2019 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Finally I'm fed up with VCL media player. I use Winamp. +1. Go for the "lite" version. The full version is an overkill. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?
On Tue, 07 May 2019 10:13:53 -0400, Larc
wrote: I like PotPlayer and I have found it to be excellent with all types of audio and video files including FLAC. There are 32 and 64 bit versions. One caviat: it's so highly configurable that choices seem to be unending. Free, of course. https://potplayer.daum.net/ Larc Potplayer is the only thing I've used for the past 5 or 10 years. Some don't like it for being Korean software. Although SMPlayer was "the player" -- before PotPlayer showed up, distanced by a superior quality -- SMPlayer then in turn has improved itself to be almost equal to PotPlayer's video rendering. I even managed a basic DSP wrapper for "broadcasting-grade" commercial StereoTool, (also in English, I'm just behind TOR and likely echoing off a German/Dutch relay). . .into PotPlayer. http://forums.stereotool.com/viewtopic.php?t=1097 An older and limited version of StereoTool. That's something that SMPlayer will not handle, DSP wrappers, last I looked, and is where StereoTool really puts the dampers on a mess of blasted sound effects the film industry dearly loves. But it's still apples and oranges: video is video with incident or it's own brand of sound, whereas stereo is something else entitled to its own domain of high-end recording tools and, to some extent, a decent capacity for players incorporating, no less, high-end processing modules. Which is where Foobar is at, besides being Russian and well-recognized "presence", I've noticed they've had to adapt in some occasions, to our customs, neither far from perhaps a likelihood over issues the RIAA or broadcasting interests might otherwise have when viewing a digital domain of computer advancements among enthusiasts of sound reproduction. Hm ... how now to say FLAC, when Amazon was for the longest, if not still is, deliberately selling encoded music at some reduced sampling rate, a lower subset within the original German invention, from 20 to 30 years back, of psychoacoustic MP3 software modeling. |
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Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?
Indeed love foobar almost from the moment I installed it and choose the simpelst form... very nice and neat.
I would love it if somebody could make a tutorial how to setup foobar for a creative x-fi elite pro soundblaster 7.1 for maximum enjoyment. For now I am playing via PCM and 88khz for DSD/DTS/SACD discs... which sounds pretty amazing. "Return of Pink Panther" iso I tried and was amazed by it's sound quality. (Using Creative ASIO driver inside foobar2000... pretty cool). Can't get DSD-only working though... output sample rate is too high it says... 178k... creative's dac can't handle it... not sure if down sampling is possible ? There is speak of asio-proxy and such not sure if that is what I would need). I kinda wanna try out DSD only... like DSD to ASIO output to see if it makes any quality difference compared to PCM. Bye for now, Skybuck. |
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Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?
On Tue, 7 May 2019 16:05:34 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: Indeed love foobar almost from the moment I installed it and choose the simplest form... very nice and neat. I would love it if somebody could make a tutorial how to setup foobar for a creative x-fi elite pro soundblaster 7.1 for maximum enjoyment. - I loaded my install, from, initially with a StereoTool extension, a good initial experience to modules, the author had specifically written for Foobar, to progress to a more sophisticated modular approach, I think, afforded by iZotope Ozone -- a commercial suite of half-a-dozen intrinsically unique, but organic fit to natural aspects in processing staged modules. A later instance, from which I only use perhaps half inclusions, although they are respectable and hardy performers. As for the rest, again a few, the modules are public domain. I basically know, through rote time and experience, the convolutions it took repeatedly to hammer in an effective chain of modules, by trial and error involving inferior or unsuitable promotions of VST and DSP extensions (the last is first associated with the WinAmp project). iZotope Ozone of course commercial and somewhat spectacular, which would include the engineers involved and their standpoint from a rather extensive PDF document covering quasi-technical aspects of recording and subsequent renditions possible. A dual twenty-band EQ is available (on the WEB) and very worthwhile if somewhat cumbersome to adjust (an associated config is not text-editable). Wrappers for the modules when needed are to be found on audio forums...e.g. -- MultiFXVST - CTAF Audio - version 0.7.9 MultifxVST est un plug-ins VST qui permet de gérer des chaines d'effets. Copyright CTAF Audio http://www.ctaf.free.fr Cédric GESTES https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,59206.0.html George Yohng's VST wrapper H. L. Goldberg has a convenient 3-band EQ for tailoring distortion, as well an nice amp model with adjustable bias;- I've already mentioned the Russian module, Limiter No.6. All in all, depending more or less on the system, neither being all about the CPU, as to when a greater number of desired effects will tax to compromise a balance between truput and desired modeling or added signal-processing. Like I said, I don't feel I'm missing anything in particular from the many other modules I've worked with. "Gain riding", I suppose, is as much a constant A-B comparative analysis given to the original studio intent. And, at last, the million-dollar solution to your query. I'm sure time and experience has taken its toll -- that I can take two computers, preferably, to install a new Foobar on the intended recipient, without too much more ado than a USB stick, transferring a working order I've achieved from one to port to the other. The existing Foobar install, as you as much say to suspect -- is indeed grown through incessant changes to a god-forsaken mess -- which would take nicely to a fresh and organized one. Maybe on some off-butt day for accumulated things to do in one's head. |
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