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You can skin it
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You can skin it
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You can skin it
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Re:platform irony
yes, another vote for fb2k.
its also great as a utility. it handles cue sheets excellently and makes encoding lossy single-file-per-song files from a lossless single-cd-file about as easy as anything. it also takes care of directory structure and tagging very well.
its an amazing program. i hate having to use winamp. fb2k handles so many audio formats (download the 'special' installer. its probably one of the best piece of software ive ever known. it has lots of support for replaygain (i dont really use it much) and really everything else you could want. also very customizable in the way it looks (if you are into minimalism), but i tend to leave it fairly plain. see some formating strings:http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/strings.ph p?s=vote -
Foobar can. Don't you read the comments here?
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Re:What am I going to tell people now?
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Re:Well... What else is out there?
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Re:LosslessLossless support doesn't mean much to me. Not so much because you can't fit as much music on an iPod when using it, but because the files are so large that the iPod will need to spin the hard drive far more often, draining the batteries more quickly. Ask a Rio Karma owner who has tried using FLAC and they'll tell you the battery life is cut by about 40% (Curiously, Vorbis on the Karma cuts the battery life even more than FLAC). And face facts, the iPod's battery life isn't that hot compared to the Karma or the iRiver players.
I do think lossless is good, but for versatility. I have all my CDs ripped to FLAC because that way when I want to convert to a certain format it takes at worst a small script - no CD swapping again and again. Or if I want to burn a redbook CD, I just fire up Nero or K3b depending on what OS I'm using.
For my iPod, I use foobar with the foo_nero plugin and Nero 6 to convert FLAC to M4A and preserve tags. The catch is that most M4A files created in other programs are known to cause iPods to lock up or reboot. I and others have found that if you make any kind of edit to the tags in iTunes (say, do a mass tag edit so all comments are "Transcoded from lossless") before uploading them, they'll play fine.
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Re:Mikamp module
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You probably want...
foobar2000 and foo_record. Can play and record pretty much every audio format imaginable (although you probably want to find the 0.7 diskwriters until they're all ported to the new 0.8 API.. ask me if you need a hand, but you should be able to find stuff on the very useful forum) in 64 bit float precision. It can apply software DSP's, perform tagging operations at a level which puts the likes of Tag & Rename to shame, and is more configurable than any other audio player out there (because it's more than just an audio player
Most of the components are BSD licensed too. And don't let the default look put you off; it's skinnable and you can go a *long* way with nice formatting strings.
I could go on, but I should really stop gushing. I've successfully converted quite a few peeps by doing this though, so there must be some truth in it -
Re:foobar?
Hehe...you can change the foobar2000 interface so it doesn't look like Notepad (default). Check out format strings or use foo_look. Here's what my foobar2000 looks like after configured:
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Re:foobar?
Hehe...you can change the foobar2000 interface so it doesn't look like Notepad (default). Check out format strings or use foo_look. Here's what my foobar2000 looks like after configured:
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Re:Decent media players?
Maybe you should give foobar2000 a try - it's from one of the winamp2 developpers, it's very unbloated, and supports all kinds of plugins and looks.
