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Topic: Why are some of the "best" DSPs not shown on the website? (Read 1536 times) previous topic - next topic
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Why are some of the "best" DSPs not shown on the website?

Why certain "must have" DSPs are not listed in foobar's website liste?

I'm talking about foo_dsp_delta.dll and foo_dsp_bs2b.dll, the delta noise sharpening and free b2b respectively.

Are they considered bad now? Or is there a better alternative?

http://foosion.foobar2000.org/components/?id=delta
http://bs2b.sourceforge.net
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Re: Why are some of the "best" DSPs not shown on the website?

Reply #1
"Must have" is VERY subjective term. Reasons can vary - author didn't submitted certain DSP just because he decided so, author simply haven't registered to the components website.

Re: Why are some of the "best" DSPs not shown on the website?

Reply #2
Authors can also remove their components from the component registry at any time if they wish.

Those look like really old components as well (9 and 10 years for the last release). Not sure when the component registry went live, but it's possible it didn't exist back then.

Re: Why are some of the "best" DSPs not shown on the website?

Reply #3
Seems wasteful to have these not be listed. You have and use alternative plugins to these?

What other plugins do you recommend?
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Re: Why are some of the "best" DSPs not shown on the website?

Reply #4
For me it would be wasteful to bloat my config with plugins that I would not use. Those 2 plugins are completely useless for me. As I said - this is very subjective what is useful or wasteful.
Seems you don't get one thing and maybe I wasn't clear enough:
- There is no single authority which lists plugins
- There is no mechanism that would allow to know all existing plugins to such authority, thus its work would be ineffective
- Author himself MUST register to components website to maintain his plugins on his own
- Even when author is registered, no one can force him to list all plugins that he created
- Author is free to delist any of his plugins at any time.

You ask for something that can be done only by author of your beloved plugins himself. It seems he is not interested or simply he ceased development of those plugins.