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.

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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.