Operating system: Windows
Publisher: Peter Pawlowski
Antivirus check: passed
Last revision: Last week
The new, popular sound card, made by one of the most famous and convenient people in the world, plays music while letting you listen while it uses your voice.The famous game Winamp player. Peter Pavlovsky. Fubar 2000 has many other advantages over other products. A top choice for high-quality sound reproduction, this player comes first in our top programs list. In terms of resource consumption, Foubar is very moderate. It is capable of carrying a great deal of flexibility in terms of product configurations, features, and functions. There are dozens of different plugins that the player can work with, ranging from support for some exotic audio formats to recordings software and CD-ROM systems for the visualization and streaming of Internet radio. For users recently migrated to Foobar from other players, the minimalist interfaces in this player may seem unusual at first, but once they have gotten used to it, it becomes enjoyable and usable right away. Moreover, a collection picture can display as a background in the playlist window and it can be customized at the same time.
With accurate audio playback, no changes to the sound or textures are applied to the audio in order to maximize high quality playback.changing options. Inputs for Foobar2000's approximate system audio output could be observed as follows:
source → decoder → postprocessor → volume control → bit depth converter → audio output.
The source is a Lossless (lossless compression of WAV, FLAC, WV, APE, TAK, TTA and others) or Lossy (lossy compression of MP3, OGG, AAC, MPC and so on) file format;
Decoder - convert the original audio to PCM (pulse-code modulation) with floating point (32 bits);
postprocessor - in Fubar, it is used to convert or decode HDCD and DTS formats;
Volume knob - The volume knob built into the player;
Bit depth converter - used to convert the depth of audio bits to be played back on the sound card, depending on the plugin that outputs the audio;
audio output - a bridge between the player and sound card, there is support for DirectSound, Kernel Streaming, ASIO, WASAPI Shared and WASAPI Exclusive.
It is worth noting that the player is free of charge, and you can find a lot of ready-made assemblies in the network.
- open architecture of components, allowing third-party developers to expand the functionality of the player;
- supports audio formats "out of the box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC;
- audio formats supported through official extensions: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; on-the-fly extraction from RAR, 7-ZIP and ZIP archives;
- Full support for Unicode on Windows NT;
- ReplayGain support;
- takes up very little RAM, efficiently processes really large playlists;
- more information about the file;
- very flexible playlist display;
- customizable hotkeys;
- most of the standard components are openourced under the BSD license (source included with the SDK).