Hi...i'm new foobar2000 user.

Before this i'm regular user of WMP since version 9...but suddenly i got interest in audiophiles..later i realize WMP isn't suitable for audiophilers, even entry level audiophilers like me because WMP really lack of audio customization, just have manyfancy theme and skin..after used foobar2000 i think this is the best audio player i ever used..

Foobar2000 hav so much customization and i did even know before this there are so many codec, MP3 format type like LAME, V2, Franhaufer, Ape and FLAC..
WMP simply blind their user with their WMA codec and claim it is the best..

Since i'm new here..can someone give me link to update my plain themes or step-by-step procedures?
Especially with the new iTunes skin..anyone here use that skin? Please help me?

I still don't understand the concept of dither...is it enhance the 16-bit playback?

if i dont change anything in Foobar, it will play my FLAC audio as 44.1 Hz right?? And Replay Gain doesn't change anything and still produce the original source?

I'm bit paranoid??? yeah maybe right ..do you use relaygain and what SC did you use?

Wow i thought you're 100% purist Btw, thanks for sharing!

Do you know Death Magnetic by Metallica? That album has been compressed and brickwalled heavily, so it introduce audible clipping and distortion. Can i really prevent or reduce the clipping by using ReplayGain (prevent clipping according to peak) ?

Yeah it pretty bad mastered, cnnot hear LFE, Bass Guitar sound thin, kick drum sound flat and snare drum sound distort...but i love the music, CD quality nowadays suck. I used ReplayGain and set the preamp to 0dB i noticed my oldest CD which is ...And Justice for All released on CD 1988 would produce track gain and album gain around -3.65dB but when i compare to new CD such as Death Magnetic, Miley Cyrus, Madonna, Avril and Megadeth there are huge gap, it produce > -12.00dB..

Really loud and distort and bizzare. It's make my ear bleed if i don't apply replaygain , i don't know how come many people can endure listen to this really loud and distort music through their iPod / headset

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Added on May 12, 2009, 4:28 pmJust want so share some great foobar2k skin

Link

credit to fariz (for introduce this skin tome) and tedgo

This post has been edited by Angel of Deth: May 12 2009, 04:28 PM