Since the introduction of 0.9.5 PanelsUI started to cause serious incompatibility issues and its development was ceased last year.

And yeah, this kind of argument only brings fruitless outcome with each side of users supporting their own preferred players. Although i like how my Foobar2000 works very much and that i probably can't think of switching over to any other player in the near future, i won't stop my friends using Winamp/WMP11/TTplayer whatsover. It's your choice and it's completely up to you, although if you want, i can list many advantages straight away.

Please also do not forget that depending on how many plugins you install on your foobar2000 and how many of them are enabled, the memory usage will vary. Heavy customization also means higher memory usage.

wen9x88 might be right. MP3s might have different sound volume, however you can use the 'ReplayGain' function in foobar2000 to normalize their volume. Just right click on the sound tracks and choose 'ReplayGain>Scan per-file track gain', after foobar2000 has gathered information, Click Update Tag.

ReplayGain is not used to make your MP3s sound louder. In fact, most of my MP3 sound 'quieter' after applying ReplayGain. It just 'normalizes' them to have same level of volume output by determining how much dB has to be adjusted.

The reason Winamp outputs louder sound may be due to different design of the programs, and foobar2000 can output less dB than Winamp at same percentage of volume level(not sure about this though).

But you can adjust the volume elsewhere, like with your speaker, unless you are using a laptop. It's difficult to imagine you still can't hear the sound after you turn the speaker volume to the highest level.

This post has been edited by caspersky: Oct 4 2008, 12:14 AM