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Tell us why have you chosen foobar2000

Reply #175 –
Because it has a lot of professional features like resampler, dithering, noise shaping, and good sound quality. And kernel streaming fixes my WDM mixer problem.

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Reply #176 –
beside all what has been said before:
- it gives me the best overview of my music files (~5000)
- once configured, it's MY player
- i don't need visual gimmicks for listening music
- it has a fantastic community and support

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Reply #177 –
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i don't need visual gimmicks for listening music

Agreed! I like the simplicity of the UI as well as what I mentioned previously.

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Reply #178 –
I've been using foobar since 0.31 and fell love with it instantly. Ever since, I've forced my little brother and my friends to use it! 

Like said so many times before:

* Small memory footprint
* Database (great for people like me, who have a big amount of music files ~10000)
* Formatting strings
* Gapless playback
* Masstagging (one of the best things, imho)
* Replaygain support/scanning
* .cue support out of the box (I just love playing music from images with .cue)
* One can configure it to meet ones needs (formatting strings, columns, etc.)
* Community!

Nice to finally register, after being a foobar user for such a long time! 

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Reply #179 –
Since my earlier posts I've decided upon probably my main reason:

Fantastic integration with EAC, WavPack and (when I need it) LAME.

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Reply #180 –
Matroska !!! Foobar is the only reliable player for this format.

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Reply #181 –
--> Small and easily upgradable (.dll's)
--> I can Use it at school (!!!! fantastic news!)
--> Customizable (it looks as good as you make it, and it's functional either way)
--> audioscrobbler/ogg/wma/mp3 support.
--> all under one roof (IE: no windows like winamp, no annoying tabs like WMP)
--> I just remembered the main reason, WMP tends to fault and hesitate with a large media library, foobar does not, it's bloody fast.

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Reply #182 –
Like:

- Low memory usage
- Simple interface, with option to enchance if you wish
- Wide range of formats supported by default
- Gets the best sound quality of out low end MP3's
- Tabbed playlists - gotta be one of my favourites
- Speed! Winamp: 10 seconds + stupid load up sound. Foobar: 1/2 Second, thankfully no cat meowing

Dislike:

- Losing tabbed playlists on upgrading throughout the beta versions

Thats it, it really is an awesome player, Foobar and VLC together makes for one hell of a multimedia workstation!

Jack.

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Reply #183 –
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- dynamic compression and a lot of DSPs
- Low memory usage
- Customizable layout
- You can set a shortcut for every action (and global ones too)
- Many plugins
- Supports a lot of formats
- Masstagger
- ...

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- "Play audio CD" doesn't work with my notebook drive (closes down with an error)
Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Österreich, Matthias

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Reply #184 –
I was using Winamp for many years but forunately i stopped using it now!  It's not the revolutionary player it used to be in 2.x Versions anymore. Since AOL bought Nullsoft, many things changed in Winamp to... worse! They actually lost the point and kept adding crap!

Anyway, when I first installed Foobar in my system I saw it's minimalistic view and I said: "What's this? Is this the player that beats Winamp?" Well... I don't know why but it somehow attracted me and I started playing with it! Soon, I realised that it is the best player in the world!!! And no...I don't miss Winamp, Foobar offers me what Winamp did and a bit more and the best of all... it does it MY way!

Now I can really tag in id3v2.....   

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Reply #185 –
Only been using foobar for a couple of weeks, but I'm loving it.

Reasons for using Foobar are;

* Proper gapless playback.

* Proper CUE file support

* The simplicity yet powerful feature set

* I rip all my CD's as an image and CUE and i love the convert feature to extract single files.

What i would like to see in Foobar2000;

* A video playing plug-in

* Better CD burning

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Reply #186 –
first i chose it, because of how few memory it uses. now i bloated it with plugins, which i don't want to miss any more. so at first i was after low memory usage, but know i enjoy all those great features it offers.

if you're only after low memory usage you could go with 1by1, which uses even less.

i can't live without those great features! most important for me:

* plays all formats that ever came to me (except real audio)
* masstagger, massrenamer, freedb masstagger
* great playlist managment (tabbed...)
* very custumizable
* scheduler
* diskwriter, converter
* enqueue (foo_temple)
* dithering
* replaygain

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Reply #187 –
been using fb2k for more then 2 years, i like the it, couse its down to what you need, no 50mb gui, great tag/string support, dsp, the gapless and crossfader are both super..!!, custemize your copycommand ) you can get almost any data available in your display, you dont depend on tags or whatever, foldername, path, filename, all the conversions are there. And i can add almost anything written in comments above.

IT ROX...

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Reply #188 –
 - from joy, natch.

Just converted from WinAmp.

Fb2k can actually play to all my speakers. Fb2k gives the cleanest sound I've ever heard. It has a small footprint, etc, etc, etc.

I'm in love. 

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Reply #189 –
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* Small memory footprint
* Database (great for people like me, who have a big amount of music files ~10000)
* Gapless playback
* Masstagging (one of the best things, imho)
* .cue support out of the box (I just love playing music from images with .cue)
* One can configure it to meet ones needs (formatting strings, columns, etc.)
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That's why.

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Reply #190 –
I like foobar, cause it has highly customizable interface
I dont like only the difficult for configuration inrerface - I hate to write config strings who I dont understand. I think the foobar2k developers can make interface easyer for customizing, without so many manually edited config files and strings, more GUI based options.
I don't speak English very well, please excuse me!

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Reply #191 –
I switched over from winamp years ago because I prefered foobar's minimal interface and ease of use.
Since then I've grown to love it's robust variety options and limitless customization.

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Reply #192 –
Because it's fast, straight to the point (minimal gimmicks), newbie friendly and yet fully customizable, many features, and the first unicode-enabled audio player for Windows I can found...

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Reply #193 –
sound quality, low usage of memory, highly customizable

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Reply #194 –
because i like wasting my time customizing something that isn't really mine

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Reply #195 –
firstly it was .cue support. i was a winamp hog for years and i kept going back to winamp after using foobar, but i've been 100% foobar for almost a year now! it just grew on me. so simple and fast!

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Reply #196 –
low usage of memory
gapless playback
burning from any format
you can make it look however you want
smooth
has plugins that no other audio player has

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Reply #198 –
Mostly because it looks the best.  I have no special needs when it comes to music playback, so it comes down to visual appeal.

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Reply #199 –
i like foobar because it isn't bloated like other popular players such as iTunes, WMP, Winamp, and others. it also has a nice interface along with a lot of plugins. i don't use a lot of em but nevertheless, it's a nice player.