Foobar or JRiver

[daftcombo]

The Smiths' work I liked, but Morrissey solo not so much with his distasteful political views...

"The Queen is Dead" is in my top 5 album ever. But yeah, solo Morrissey isn't on par. Jonny Marr what the genius.

The drums can be a bit harsh on the CDs I have though.

 

[bravomail]

Which player do you prefer and why?

foobar2k - lots of plugins, ASIO and WASAPI support, built-in encoder, free, stable, fast, small, runs on Android too, etc

 

[Toni71]

Kodi. Free. No clicking noise on my dac on usb, because of the option to keep the audio channel active. Also the option for sending white noise.
Tidal plugin. With this config, i can switch tracks without relais clicking in my dac.

 

[bravomail]

Kodi. Free. No clicking noise on my dac on usb, because of the option to keep the audio channel active. Also the option for sending white noise.
Tidal plugin. With this config, i can switch tracks without relais clicking in my dac.

u got me puzzled. kodi (on Android) is heavy, and don't find it particularly user firendly. I use it on my Amazon FireTV for movies.

 

[Ron Texas]

Kodi. Free. No clicking noise on my dac on usb, because of the option to keep the audio channel active. Also the option for sending white noise.
Tidal plugin. With this config, i can switch tracks without relais clicking in my dac.

Kodi's claim to fame is it can scrape video sites.

 

[q3cpma]

A suckless (a software minimalism movement) player I made with a simple optional interface. I used mpd and cmus a lot before, but wanted something simpler and more modular; mainly to get random but fair album shuffle (albums with a lower playcount have a higher probability of being picked).

 

[Toni71]

I am using Kodi on a htpc. With a remote control. I have also Sharky codecs installed for media playback and a Tidal plugin. There are two plugins for Tidal. I use the Tidal2 version. That one has a better layout from whats on my Tidal account.

For my solution, Kodi with output Wasapi usb to my dac without clicking noise it is perfect.

I am using Kodi a long time, so i am used to it. I only use Tidal or Qobuz for music.

 

[maty]

This week I managed to improve a little more, via software, twice, and so I listen to the music now. The first one was a trial and error, and I did not expect it!

Since I have JRiver MC WDM driver installed I decided to try other output devices from foobar2000 (updated to the latest 1.5 beta15). With KS : JRVAD Wave the sound is indifferent from the JRiver MC, which is the one that is really responsible for processing the audio files, foobar2000 being a mere interface.

But, here, I try DSD : KS JRVAD Wave and the sound has more bass and is more analog!!!!

Appears, I think, thanks to the great plugin SACD -Super Audio CD Decoder- for foobar2000 (updated too).

Once again I confirm that as a foobar2000 player it is inferior, at least in my systems. Playing music from my tweaked ODAC USB. The 24/192 mono vinyl rip is reproduced from foobar2000 with Resampler SoX mod at 24/96. I hate the implementation of SoX in JRiver MC.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-are-we-listening-to-right-now.40/post-232063

PS: I have retouched parameters of the SACD plugin and the sound does not change. So the interesting thing is the new output device. In JRMC I have deactivated the Resampler (DSP -> [ ] Output Format). And all that has to do with DSD is untouched, they are the default values.

 

[maty]

Just now, playing the great album again.

PS: the green bump was the windows process Tiworker.exe, 25% CPU. I killed. It had been a while since it happened. I am always checking the processes, in case there is any malicious.

-> https://www.google.com/search?q=tiworker+exe

 

[Fluffy]

It looks like I'm the only one here still using Winamp as my main player. I just never felt a need to transition to something else. The main features it has that I can't part with is the media library and the quick search option. It also has many other features that I can't live without, like lyrics, fade out at pause and fade in at play, the queue behavior and quick access to file info.

I also use the Deezer desktop app to listen to lossless files that I don't have in local storage.

For equalizer I also use EqualizerAPO which affects the sound output globally, which makes it very convenient to switch between winamp and deezer.

 

[maty]

Well, just now listen to an ISO from SACD. Better Less bad sound from JRiver MC. Until a few months ago I preferred foobar2000 for SACD.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-are-we-listening-to-right-now.40/post-232084

 

[MOCKBA]

I am out of luck using Windows, therefore Music-barrel on Linux and Kamerton on Android. Both can play ISO SACD. Unfortunately they can't play Wavpack containered DSD, but promised to add a support soon. On a plus note, both are a potential hack protected.

 

[ceausuc]

My favorite Windows player: http://albumplayer.ru/english.html . It's worth trying I think.

 

[maty]

Very interesting player with awful face. It works with JRMC WDM driver. I like the SoX implementation, the VST 64-bit and... has own Kernel Streaming!

But foobar2000 with DSD : KS : JRVAD Wave has better sound. I am intrigued and can not find anything on the net about it!!! Playing PCM files.

 

[ceausuc]

Very interesting player with awful face. It works with JRMC WDM driver. I like the SoX implementation, the VST 64-bit and... has own Kernel Streaming!

But foobar2000 with DSD : KS : JRVAD Wave has better sound. I am intrigued and can not find anything on the net about it!!! Playing PCM files.

I believe i read somewhere that the programmer (a russian guy) doesn't speak english so.. besides russian forums there isn't really much info.
Have you also entered into the Linux world? Ever tried ( my absolute favorite ) http://wtfplay-project.org/ ?

 

[maty]

Linux? UNIX and without graphic interface before Linux arose . But with Linux I have never been able to optimize it for multimedia like with W10, which I find frustrating. Now I take a look, and thank you!

 

[maty]

Multimedia without graphic interface is very uncomfortable if you have a huge collection. The logical thing is to implement an environment like XFCE, my choose with Manjaro.

ISO of only 24 MB.

 

[Julf]

Linux? UNIX and without graphic interface before Linux arose . But with Linux I have never been able to optimize it for multimedia like with W10, which I find frustrating. Now I take a look, and thank you!

What optimization do you think it would need?

 

[Soniclife]

"The Queen is Dead" is in my top 5 album ever. But yeah, solo Morrissey isn't on par. Jonny Marr what the genius.

The drums can be a bit harsh on the CDs I have though.

The remasters are worth checking out, but the basic recording quality wasn't high sadly. The music makes up for it though.

 

[daftcombo]

The remasters are worth checking out, but the basic recording quality wasn't high sadly. The music makes up for it though.

Cymbals sound harsh on the CD I have (out before the remaster). Still, there is plenty to listen to in the background of the first track.