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A great audio player! Probably some foobar2000 users here, including me.

Foobar2000 v1.1.13
Foobar2000 v1.1.14 beta 3

Release Notes

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2012-08-18

foobar2000 v1.1.14a has been released. A regression that slipped into 1.1.14 final has been corrected; thanks to all the people who submitted crash telemetry so quickly. We apologize for the incovenience.
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2012-08-17

foobar2000 v1.1.14 final has been released. In addition to IETF Opus codec support introduced in the betas, the final version addresses various stability issues.
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[Winapp2.ini]

I'm sort of surprised Foobar is still under development, I kind of forgot it existed.

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Winapp2.ini, on 18 August 2012 - 01:21 PM, said:

I'm sort of surprised Foobar is still under development, I kind of forgot it existed.

How come?

[Winapp2.ini]

I'm not sure, I kind of just forgot that it existed, I never hear about it anymore. Kind of like RealPlayer

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Winapp2.ini, on 19 August 2012 - 12:49 AM, said:

I'm not sure, I kind of just forgot that it existed, I never hear about it anymore. Kind of like RealPlayer

Which player do you use, then? I've been using foobar2000 for years and before that Winamp.

[Winapp2.ini]

I use the Zune software, and have been for several years. I've made a few tweaks to it, since it's eye-searingly bright, but that's about it .

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nodles, on 19 August 2012 - 05:26 AM, said:

Which player do you use, then? I've been using foobar2000 for years and before that Winamp.

Exactly the same for me, previously it was Winamp which is well over ten years ago now, hard to believe I've used Peter's gem foobar2000 for so many years and I've never as of yet found any worthy contender to it and doubt I ever will as long as he develops it.

foobar2000 is so good for what it plays right "out-of-the-box"! The only other playback plugin I've ever added to it was one for Dolby Digital .AC3 audio since I edit allot of videos and via foobar2000 it makes it so very easy to tell if an edit I made will be gapless or not.

[Super Fast]

For me, KMP plays almost everything I need.

VLC is ugly, but it plays 1 or 2 that almost every other multi-mutimedia player struggles to play. So I have to use it sometimes.

I cringe when I have to use it, but... it does the job!

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I use different players of audio & video playing.
MPC HC for video and Foobar2000 for audio.
Audacity for editing audio, which I don't do so often.

[Winapp2.ini]

I've been using SMPlayer for my video needs for a while, though I use VLC Direct to stream to my tablets and phones.

I'm a sucker for the Zune Software, it's eyecandy. The precursor to the Metro UI, I suppose.

[Andavari]

For me when it comes to audio+video players and even editors I'll take pure unconfusing funtionality over a blinged up UI.

[Winapp2.ini]

iTunes for windows has neither! wooo!

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Foobar2000 v1.1.15 beta 2
Change Log

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Foobar2000 v1.1.15
Change log

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Foobar2000 v1.1.16
Change log

[Super Fast]

I downloaded samples of different types of videos, & MPC HC had videos it refused to play that worked fine under KMP & VLC.

Though there were a few others that worked reasonably well, I ended up dumping GOM player for same reason as the rest.

I also dumped Xion, Foobar, Real, Quicktime, & many others in favor of true multi-media players.

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Super Fast, on 18 November 2012 - 04:16 PM, said:

I also dumped Xion, Foobar, Real, Quicktime, & many others in favor of true multi-media players.

Thing is Foobar2000 is just an audio player, which has its merits if for instance you want fantastic playists, ease of editing metatags, and don't want some bloated multimedia player will all those plugins loaded just to listen to your music.

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Super Fast, on 18 November 2012 - 04:16 PM, said:

I downloaded samples of different types of videos, & MPC HC had videos it refused to play that worked fine under KMP & VLC.

What kind of videos? Never had problems with MPC HC.

Andavari, on 19 November 2012 - 01:59 AM, said:

Thing is Foobar2000 is just an audio player, which has its merits if for instance you want fantastic playists, ease of editing metatags, and don't want some bloated multimedia player will all those plugins loaded just to listen to your music.

True, using it just for music/radio/CD etc.

[Super Fast]

Andavari, on 19 November 2012 - 01:59 AM, said:

Thing is Foobar2000 is just an audio player, which has its merits if for instance you want fantastic playists, ease of editing metatags, and don't want some bloated multimedia player will all those plugins loaded just to listen to your music.

As I also hate bloat & love ease of use, I caused KMP to save settings to .ini (portable) & to always load a skin I selected, centered on the screen.
It's far smaller than the default KMP skin, & much cleaner. By always loading center, it avoids that video gets "lost" off the edges of the screen.

I have a second skin I can right-click & switch to that has 1-click saving of audio from audio files, video from video files, etc.

This works great.