RP Listener Forum

Posted: May 25, 2012 - 4:25pm

DaveInVA wrote:

I wholeheartedly 2nd Foobar and have been using it for years now. I even use it on my Mac using the Wine emulator. I just wish they'd release a Mac native version of it.

I've been using Foobar now since December when you recommended it in another thread. Its been great. (XP PC). Play wav files, mp3, flac. Does a great job. Listen to RP and Pearadio on it. I'll add more urls over time, but its my work horse now. spdif out of puter to receiver, pure digital all the way.

Posted: May 25, 2012 - 1:20pm

I like to click on my default I Tunes 192.
Then click on the HD Slideshow Player.
I then get a real cool Reverb effect by the slight delay between the two.

Kinda like Neko Case Radio.

Posted: Jan 30, 2012 - 9:22am

J River Media Center

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Posted: Jan 30, 2012 - 8:46am

VLC has been working for me quite well

recommend it highly

Posted: Jan 30, 2012 - 8:42am

Posted: Sep 1, 2011 - 7:05am

I so rarely play music directly thru my computer anymore I just use the Windows Media player that came with my computer last year. Not even sure which version it is (using Win 7).

Previously I used Winamp and always found it very acceptable.

Posted: Sep 1, 2011 - 6:59am

kurtster wrote:

I'm still using Winamp 2.81 on all my puters for mp3s and streaming RP and as much Internet as possible. Uses no resouces, barely notice its presence while on. I have the program saved in about 10 different places, just incase and there have been a few just in cases ... Used to use Music Match jukebox back in the day. Liked it a lot actually, had a very nice volume level equalizing feature. Still have it around somewhere.

Media player 10 for playing wav files. Going to have to go to 11 soon. My new receiver has ethernet and when I get around to figuring it out, I can play files directly through to the receiver (requires Media Player 11 or another DLNA compatible server), bypassing everything and using the receiver's D/A converter. The receiver also does Internet Radio, but again, I have to figure that out as well.

Learning how to use all of this will be how I start to spend the winter indoors.

Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 5:50am

sirdroseph wrote:

I'm a Winamp man, through and through. {#Clap}

Being able to sort, randomize and "touch" the mp3 files directly on my hard drive through the media player playlist is what is most important to me and as far as I know Winamp is the only media player that has full ties to the files through the player. You can even delete the file from your hard drive in the playlist. Foobar is the closest, but I don't even think that player can do that.

I'm still using Winamp 2.81 on all my puters for mp3s and streaming RP and as much Internet as possible. Uses no resouces, barely notice its presence while on. I have the program saved in about 10 different places, just incase and there have been a few just in cases ... Used to use Music Match jukebox back in the day. Liked it a lot actually, had a very nice volume level equalizing feature. Still have it around somewhere.

Media player 10 for playing wav files. Going to have to go to 11 soon. My new receiver has ethernet and when I get around to figuring it out, I can play files directly through to the receiver (requires Media Player 11 or another DLNA compatible server), bypassing everything and using the receiver's D/A converter. The receiver also does Internet Radio, but again, I have to figure that out as well.

Learning how to use all of this will be how I start to spend the winter indoors.

Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 5:39am

nickt1 wrote:

I have done back to back listening of several players (win media,itunes,winamp,media monkey,jetaudio and foobar) and found Foobar to sound the best by far.
It is a minimalistic music specific program and doesnt use to much system resources.
The 192 ogg vorbis stream on RP sounds fantastic though my HRTmusic streamer II.
To get ogg to play on foobar you need to go to the foobar site and download the plugin.
Thanks RP for the best station ever.

I wholeheartedly 2nd Foobar and have been using it for years now. I even use it on my Mac using the Wine emulator. I just wish they'd release a Mac native version of it.

Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 5:14am

I have done back to back listening of several players (win media,itunes,winamp,media monkey,jetaudio and foobar) and found Foobar to sound the best by far.
It is a minimalistic music specific program and doesnt use to much system resources.
The 192 ogg vorbis stream on RP sounds fantastic though my HRTmusic streamer II.
To get ogg to play on foobar you need to go to the foobar site and download the plugin.
Thanks RP for the best station ever.

Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 12:10pm

I use VLC for most stuff but for playing my CD collection that is now in .FLAC format I use Songbird...I prefer Foobar to play them on the PeeCee though...

Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 10:03am

hippiechick wrote:

Would this have any benefit of itunes on the Mac?

I don't know about their Jukebox software, but Media Center is strictly a Windows app. I'd presume the JB is, too.

Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 9:54am

escapes wrote:

J River Juke box
http://www.mediajukebox.com/

Media Center costs $$ and is truely king

Would this have any benefit of itunes on the Mac?

Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 9:52am

escapes wrote:

J River Juke box
http://www.mediajukebox.com/

Media Center costs $$ and is truely king

I second that. The only caveat is that Media Center can do SO much, but the interface can be a bit daunting.

For a quick 'n' dirty approach, I like the open source VLC media player. I haven't tried J. River's Media Jukebox.

Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 9:46am

J River Juke box
http://www.mediajukebox.com/

Media Center costs $$ and is truely king

Posted: Aug 4, 2010 - 12:30pm

AIMP2 music audio player/converter. All formats+many plugins+skins+freeware+open source. Best music player imho. For Video - KMPlayer, or Windows Media Player Classic.

Posted: Jul 8, 2010 - 1:41pm

Sony Vaio > Foobar2000 > ASIO4all > HRT Music Streamer 11+

Posted: Jul 8, 2010 - 9:13am

PC Desktop: Amarok and SqueezeCenter.
Server: MOC - music on console.
Portable: Internet Radio Player I @ PSP 2000, Samsung Yepp U5 for RP ripped streams (20+ Gbytes)

Posted: Mar 4, 2009 - 4:02pm

I'm a Winamp man, through and through. {#Clap}

Being able to sort, randomize and "touch" the mp3 files directly on my hard drive through the media player playlist is what is most important to me and as far as I know Winamp is the only media player that has full ties to the files through the player. You can even delete the file from your hard drive in the playlist. Foobar is the closest, but I don't even think that player can do that.

Posted: Mar 4, 2009 - 2:56pm

Have moved to J.River Media Jukebox w/ ASIO4ALL bypassing all of Windows audio mess to external USB DAC, in my case a Keces DA-151 to the AudioEngine A5's RP turned me on to.

The desk has never sounded so good !

Cheers