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During the last two months foo_uie_explorer stopped working on three different Windows 7 PCs (x32 and x64) - when I start Foobar2000 the process appears in task manager, but no window opens up. I can kill the hung up process, but the next start of Foobar2000 is again unsuccessfull. If I remove the dll then Foobar2000 starts normally. Tried with last and several older versions of Foobar2000.
There is no problem with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 PCs though. I suspect a Windows update or Skype update is messing with the plugin, but unfortunately uninstalling all recent Windows updates and Skype did not resolve the issue - the problematic change does not get reverted.
Had to resort to other plugins with similar functionality, but they are all lacking compared to foo_uie_explorer.

I'm just curious is Auro-3D something that can be ambisonics applied to?

See https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t2c0UXzKa-vRhOlwqIj3bn070P1KJWULNc5mYuHnTQ0/edit#gid=0

The only commonality is that they're able to store 3D audio. The rest (paradigm, cost, etc) is completely different.

You can convert, but there's costs as A3D isn't free, and you'll lose quality converting as paradigm differs.

Quote from: frogworth on 08 August, 2012, 06:22:17 AM

I don't actually particularly like this, because I listen to a lot of new music off CD or downloaded from Bandcamp and so on, and I found it hard to set foobar correctly so that un-ReplayGain-tagged files don't suddenly jump out. Probably a way though.

It's of course not a universal solution, but you can apply negative gain to files without RG-info. I currently use -8dB pregain with great pleasure.

It may not be universal, but I do this too, based on this ~ http://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,66453.msg593150.html#msg593150

Foobar movies manager? Yeah I did that, didn't pursue it any further as I saw no real use in it to warrant further effort.
Made a test layout with columns ui with playlists, playlist viewer, library tree, image brower and infos. Click action in the el playlist launched vlc player via foo_run. This is what it looked like.
Just put all in an mkv container. Foobar can tag the files (the audio part) and they play in vlc without any issue.

@jazzthieve , that looks great ! Thanks for your input. I could probably achieve a similar result with DUI.

So the key point would be to put everything in mkv containers. A batch converter (wihout reencoding, obviously) should do the trick. This one for example : https://www.ghacks.net/2013/06/04/change-video-formats-to-mp4-or-mkv-quickly/
I am however worried that such converter can only handle a limited number of video formats. What about old .rm files for instance ? (or many other formats)

And what about the tagging ? Did you do it yourself ? That looks like a tedious work (all movie info, titles, dates, names; etc.). Or is there an online tagging database such as for audio files ?

Ultimately, I wonder if other software such as JRiver would be more appropriate for such purpose (or an equivalent free software with extensive tagging abilities, if there is one).
I'm undecided right now.

After having a couple instances where my foobar2000 playlists got screwed up/corrupted/whatever, I stumbled upon the plugin autobackup which allowed me to back the playlists up intermittently as I saw fit. This saved me on at least one occasion and was huge as foobar2000's playlists are an integral part of my workflow, the result of hours upon hours of production decisions. Today I had to do a hard restart and I came back to foobar to all the errors that will sometimes come up when you do such a thing. Went to the backup and started replacing files, but my playlists weren't there. To my horror, some playlists remained, but the playlists I'd been actively working on were empty in foobar2000. %$E%^$##%E##%$#^$%$$$%@%#$%@%$%@#%$@#$%@%$#%$%@$#$%$#%@

I came to find autobackup plugin was set to backup the directory "playlists", but the directory foobar puts the playlists had been changed to "playlists-v1.3". I'm sitting here just pulling my hair out wondering why in the world this subtle yet ultimately disastrous change was made, and if, moving forward, every major foobar update will change this directory, breaking the backups unless I remember to manually change the target directory.