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Industrial Strength
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 Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:34 am Post subject: Best Audio Player for Computer? |
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I'm using WinAmp Pro at the moment, but I'm looking for something that will give me better audio quality. The minimum I need is a library function. I don't need skinability and visualizations. Just good sound.
What player do you recommend?
Thanks,
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Bunnymonster
Joined: 16 Mar 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Foobar 2000 though the library feature isn't the greatest it sounds marginally better and supports gapless mp3s and .ogg, it is also very much unbloated which is nice.To be honest with you though its the media you're playing that is the weak link probably, followed by your soundcard amp,speakers and then cabling. Really for good sound quality you do need to have a seperate system imo. Hmmmm now if only I had a few thousand dollars handy.............. |
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I_Am_Wrong
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Industrial Strength
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Bunnymonster wrote: |
| Foobar 2000 though the library feature isn't the greatest it sounds marginally better and supports gapless mp3s and .ogg, it is also very much unbloated which is nice.To be honest with you though its the media you're playing that is the weak link probably, followed by your soundcard amp,speakers and then cabling. Really for good sound quality you do need to have a seperate system imo. Hmmmm now if only I had a few thousand dollars handy.............. |
The stereo is back home. Over here I make due with my laptop and Sennheiser cans.
True, the media is mostly rips at 192 so you can't expect much. However, I still think there must be something better for mp3 playback. I tried Foobar, but we didn't get along well.
Thanks for the tips,
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wuzza
Joined: 02 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:52 am Post subject: |
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I don't think a piece of software exists that can improve quality that just isn't there in the first place.
how do you find Winamp when playing normal CD's? For me it's fine, as long as you have some nice speakers.
The fans of mp3 say that the only sound lost is inaudible to the human ear....
You might want to try FLAC files instead. It's a Lossless Audio Codec, hence the name, and some music torrent sites use mostly that codec. Try http://btmusic.org:2710/index.php for lots of albums in that format. They take up far more space than mp3 though, so be warned.
Also that site only allows the use of a certain few clients, so be sure to read the faq before you start to use it.
By the way.....I hope to God you're not listening using the speakers that came free with the computer..... |
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Industrial Strength
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| wuzza wrote: |
| how do you find Winamp when playing normal CD's? For me it's fine, as long as you have some nice speakers. |
Quality is fine I guess. I just thought there might be something out there that I was missing.
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You might want to try FLAC files instead. It's a Lossless Audio Codec, hence the name, and some music torrent sites use mostly that codec. Try http://btmusic.org:2710/index.php for lots of albums in that format. They take up far more space than mp3 though, so be warned.
Also that site only allows the use of a certain few clients, so be sure to read the faq before you start to use it. |
Thanks for the tips. I get most of my new music in FLAC format from Pedro's already. I use WinAmp to play the FLAC files too.
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| By the way.....I hope to God you're not listening using the speakers that came free with the computer..... |
Nope, Sennheiser 280s.
Thanks,
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wuzza
Joined: 02 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:13 am Post subject: |
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well beyond that, I'm not really sure what you can do. Obviously with the Sennheisers you are serious.
I really like Winamps media library, especially the way you can create your own categories using the various paramaters to make playlists etc. I own an iPod but I find winamp a lot more user freindly than iTunes
If you do find a better player, be sure to let us know here. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| one more vote for itunes here |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I dont know hat the best is but real audio is way better than ms media player |
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Industrial Strength
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: |
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I installed the MAD MP3 Decoder for WinAmp. Not sure if it has improved the sound or not. If anyone is interested, you can find more about it here.
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redbird
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| Does anyone have any experience with .ogg (Ogg Vorbis) files? ITunes doesn't seem to support this format yet and I'd like to be able to play it on my IShuffle. Converting these files to mp3 files is one route, but I'm not seeing any free converters on the web. |
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Industrial Strength
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Winamp plays ogg files but that won't help you with your iPod.
Don't know about any free converters. Search at download.com.
If you know anything about bittorrent you can download a program that will do it.
I usually use Nero to convert flac or ogg files to mp3.
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redbird
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| I hadn't thought about Nero, which I already had. I was able to make this work. Thanks. |
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