I am using Wasapi for vista. The SQ is better and louder but then when I am playing song with foobar, I cant play movie or streaming youtube with no sound :S

WASAPI guarenteed muted other playback rather than ASIO or KS (side-effect), it's normal...

if I use ASIO for Foobar, then it will have problem detecting my earphone or line out to speaker. Thats why have to use WASAPI, well that isnt a big problem for me and I am very satisfied iwth WASAPI

guys..
got ppl saying sawstudio bttr than foobar

i thought sawstudio more into production and editing, foobar2k of course an audio player

all player are the same....

In term of SQ yes. but the features and customization absolutely not

agreed... thats why i use foobar2k now.

I dont agree with the DSP part, u can use this DSP called SRC Resampler. (It is the best resampler for foobar and the best so far i have known for computers)

The usage for this DSP is quite simple, it is used for sound card that do HARDWARE RESAMPLING. For example, Creative Audigy (1) Platinum, sound blaster series and Audigy 2 if i have not mistaken.

Why must the soundcard do resampling? because the sound processor only support processing at 48000hz for those few cards, dont ask me why, ask the company that made it.

The problem with Hardware Resample is that, the quality of the resampling on those cards are done by a low quality processor chip on the soundcard, it will cause distortion on the bass, poor vocal clarity/real-ness and "harsh" treble.

Audio from computer (44100Hz) >>> Hardware Resampler to 48000Hz >>> Sound Processor >>> output

IF u use SRC Resampler, it will bypass the low quality hardware resampler, so...

Audio from computer with SRC enabled (48000Hz) >>> Sound Processor >>> output

see? no nid for the hardware resampling to 48000, as it is already converter on your computer and the sound processor can processor it directly as it already is 48000hz.

*different cards have different resamplers, for example, X-FI's drivers are streamlined and there is no need for resampling because the quality of resampling on the card is TIP TOP. so when u activate SRC on those cards, it wont show any different, as creative has fixed the issue of poor harware resampling. Other sound card brands i dont know, experiment to find out loh ; ) but i'm sure this will work for C-media sound cards, Creative Sound Blaster, Audigy 1,2,4. which have a stupid low quality resample chip ==

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Apr 24 2009, 08:42 PM

If i use WASAPI i don't need to disable Windows Sound Scheme like ASIO4ALL right?
Because WASAPI guaranteed muted other sound, rather than ASIO4ALL it is side-effect

can i request foo_masstagger version 1.7.1 if anyone actually have achieved it

I need it as the new masstagger aint displaying filename which make renaming from file name difficult.

btw anyone know do the playlist artwork works? it used to display correctly all my artwork until i update it to the newest version, now it wont work > <

This post has been edited by Sky.Live: Apr 25 2009, 12:19 PM

Hmm I would like to ask something...
I recently added a lot of japanese songs copied from my friend's pc, and the song titles,artists and album tagging cannot be displayed well in my foobar2000. I set my computer system language and system locale to japanese already, and my windows explorer and itunes can display the japanese words well.

however foobar cannot! Still displaying unrecognized characters although i re-imported the library. I selected Arial unicode MS also cannot display... Anyone can help?

Like this:




This post has been edited by zellleonhart: Apr 25 2009, 03:30 PM

you have make it into Unicode which i guess your friend not putting them correctly.

well there is converter, but not very reliable for Japanese names
since your filename consist of title, singer and album i guess you can rename them using script (if they are standardise) or the hardway (manually)


Unicode is the way to go, be it Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or any language, it will all works

But my windows explorer and itunes can display 100% correctly, only foobar cannot... Sweat... Used all unicode but cant ==

OMG!!
so cool looking..
can u giv me the code to do that to my default looking foobar pls??
n also the instructions.

there is a link in my blog, it's not mine, my setting is much uglier and simple.

What's the link to your blog?

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Added on April 26, 2009, 12:03 pmGood to hear that, i remember your last year post 90% on WMP11 side.

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Added on April 26, 2009, 12:10 pmIs there any point to upsampling 44.1Hz audio to 48Hz?

This post has been edited by Angel of Deth: Apr 26 2009, 12:10 PM

no need to upsampling lah.... original is original...

how do i set sampling rate in foobar? i can't see in the preferences and the only way i can set the sampling rate through the Realtek control panel in shared mode, windows vista. and i don't understand much about vista sound architecture. What is shared mode, is it affect my foobar?

The reason why some resample to 48kHz because their cards (usually old AC97 based codec and Audigy series cards, which resamples everything to 48kHz) have bad resampling algorithms that create intermodulation distortion that even software can do it better, so they resamples the source first before the DSP itself do it.

About resampling in foobar, there is resampler in DSP Manager, but I don't know how it done in Vista as I never ever use Vista