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foobar2000 is so good, and so unmatched, especially with its plugins ecosystem, I use it for my music playback needs under wine on Linux.

jdc0589 2y ago
plugins were great. Measured the speakers at my desk (I built them). generated an inverse impulse response filter, and fed it through a plugin to do full frequency equalization. It was a fun project to play with full range speakers that had no passive filter network whatsoever, all done via software.
anthk 2y ago
Meh. Audacious + pulseaudio/alsa-plugins >>>>> foobar 2000. That for GUI. If you like CLI, mpd+any UI it's a beast. Mocp if you are a minimalist.
- hlandau 2y ago
  The problem (at least for me) is input format support. Assorted foobar2000 plugins support every obscure tracker format, every obscure video game music format (.vgz, etc.), and then foo_midi lets you render MIDIs not just with Soundfonts but with whatever VSTi DLLs you like. Also support for music files in ZIP files as well as music files in ZIP files in ZIP files (don't ask). That's hard to compete with.
  - anthk 2y ago
    mocp opens MODs/S3M's and so on. Everything else it's handled by fluid/timidity. VSTi's? Pipewire now can do that at system level. >Zip Here in Unix I can just mount archives and disk images.
    - tredre3 2y ago
      > Here in Unix I can just mount archives and disk images. This is so true! And it's much easier than just having the music player support zip files. Especially for zip-in-zip like GP described. Can you imagine double clicking an archive and have it play, rather than simply do: cd Downloads/ ls mkdir tmp mount-zip myfile.zip tmp ls tmp mkdir tmp2 mount-zip tmp/myinnerfile.zip tmp2 audacious --new-instance tmp2 --play while killall -0 audacious; do sleep 1 done umount tmp2 umount tmp rmdir tmp2 tmp
RunSet 2y ago
Foobar2000 is parasitic in the sense that many of the plugins that give foobar2000 its value are open-source ports of open-source software, yet the foobar2000 software that hosts the plugins is proprietary. Feels like when Disney makes a movie version of a public domain folktale and then lobbies to perpetually extend the copyright on it.

jdc0589 2y ago

plugins were great. Measured the speakers at my desk (I built them). generated an inverse impulse response filter, and fed it through a plugin to do full frequency equalization. It was a fun project to play with full range speakers that had no passive filter network whatsoever, all done via software.

anthk 2y ago

Meh. Audacious + pulseaudio/alsa-plugins >>>>> foobar 2000. That for GUI. If you like CLI, mpd+any UI it's a beast. Mocp if you are a minimalist.

hlandau 2y ago
The problem (at least for me) is input format support. Assorted foobar2000 plugins support every obscure tracker format, every obscure video game music format (.vgz, etc.), and then foo_midi lets you render MIDIs not just with Soundfonts but with whatever VSTi DLLs you like. Also support for music files in ZIP files as well as music files in ZIP files in ZIP files (don't ask). That's hard to compete with.
- anthk 2y ago
  mocp opens MODs/S3M's and so on. Everything else it's handled by fluid/timidity. VSTi's? Pipewire now can do that at system level. >Zip Here in Unix I can just mount archives and disk images.
  - tredre3 2y ago
    > Here in Unix I can just mount archives and disk images. This is so true! And it's much easier than just having the music player support zip files. Especially for zip-in-zip like GP described. Can you imagine double clicking an archive and have it play, rather than simply do: cd Downloads/ ls mkdir tmp mount-zip myfile.zip tmp ls tmp mkdir tmp2 mount-zip tmp/myinnerfile.zip tmp2 audacious --new-instance tmp2 --play while killall -0 audacious; do sleep 1 done umount tmp2 umount tmp rmdir tmp2 tmp

RunSet 2y ago

Foobar2000 is parasitic in the sense that many of the plugins that give foobar2000 its value are open-source ports of open-source software, yet the foobar2000 software that hosts the plugins is proprietary. Feels like when Disney makes a movie version of a public domain folktale and then lobbies to perpetually extend the copyright on it.