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Soluzar · Local time: May 26, 2006, 03:09 PM

After Windows Media Player 10 came out, I spent about a week feeling uncomfortable with everything about it, and then downloaded foobar 2000. I've not looked back. Since I was already using Media Player Classic for my videos, and will continue to do so, I had no further use for WMP10.

Now, this post isn't supposed to be trolling, so let me ask you this. What does it offer over WMP10 that could make me give up Foobar? I happen to think that Foobar is the best thing to happen to my music collection since... ever.

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Soluzar · Local time: May 28, 2006, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

There is nothing that any recent version of WMP could offer you to go away from foobar, or Winamp, or really anything else, for that matter.

I can't for the life of me understand how anyone can even use a modern version of Winamp. I can just about understand how you can use WMP9/10/11 series, but the last time I tried Winamp, it just seemed to have nothing whatsoever to offer to anyone. Either I tried it at a bad transitional stage, or it has qualities I'm really not seeing.

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Soluzar · Local time: May 28, 2006, 08:03 AM

I think it may have been the 3.xx series. Up until that version, I thought Winamp was a fine, basic player. That version just... ugh. It traumatised me.

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Soluzar · Local time: May 28, 2006, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

I don't get the big deal about foobar, though. Besides having a good sound with enough tweaking (of course with the cost of higher CPU usage,) there isn't much else that I like about foobar. In fact, I think it has poor playlist handling. The last time I used it, I had a playlist with a few thousand songs on it, and every time I scrolled through it, it had to reload all of the tag information. And I didn't have a complex playlist setup (just a basic [#]. [artist] - [album] - [track #] - [track] [time].) Maybe it helps reduce memory usage, but it doesn't make anything faster in the end.

It is infinitely customisable. I'm a control freak, go fig. It took me a couple of weeks to get everything exactly the way I want it, but I now have it customised to my own personal style. I also don't have long playlists. They max out at 30 songs. I'm not suggesting that Foobar is better for you, or better for everyone. I'm saying it's better for me.

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