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Title: Flac playback on computer
Post by: Phil Zone on June 07, 2013, 10:34:55 AM: Hi everyone,
What's your best way or program to use on a computer, I have a windows. I haven't found a great one to use, any suggestions?

Thanks
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: runonce on June 07, 2013, 12:43:19 PM: http://www.foobar2000.org/
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on June 07, 2013, 01:16:04 PM: Quote from: runonce on June 07, 2013, 12:43:19 PM
http://www.foobar2000.org/

QFT
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: adrianf74 on June 07, 2013, 03:48:08 PM: +2 for Foobar2k on windows.
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: audBall on June 07, 2013, 03:57:16 PM: And the nice thing about Foobar, which may not be readily apparent after installation, is that you can totally customize the viewable window to show exactly what you want (album covers, specific folders, equalizers/volume/spectral info, etc).
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: dnsacks on June 07, 2013, 04:06:51 PM: foobar also lets you tag live shows from text files (the live show tracker addon), convert format, resample, dither, etc. It's a surprisingly sophisticated tool that's also quite easy to use.
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: jlykos on June 12, 2013, 11:21:31 AM: I use JRiver. It's a great media player.
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: bhtoque on June 12, 2013, 10:37:04 PM: VLC Media Player.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html)

JAson
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on June 12, 2013, 10:41:43 PM: Quote from: jlykos on June 12, 2013, 11:21:31 AM
I use JRiver. It's a great media player.

Looks pretty cool! I'll have to check it out... Thanks for the head's up!

Terry
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: spyder9 on June 17, 2013, 03:50:07 PM: I agree. ^^^^

I have J. River Media Center and it sounds fantastic.

Only thing close to it: XBMC and that's free conversely.

http://xbmc.org/
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: H₂O on June 17, 2013, 04:09:55 PM: Quote from: runonce on June 07, 2013, 12:43:19 PM
http://www.foobar2000.org/ (http://www.foobar2000.org/)
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: anodyne33 on June 17, 2013, 04:47:03 PM: Man, am I the only person using Winamp? I must suck.
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: TSNéa on June 17, 2013, 11:57:26 PM: Foobar too, because I can choose what I want to see.
And made by Foobar's author, Boom Audio Player, when I just want to check what's in a folder.
Dimensions
http://perkele.cc/software/boom
Very light and opens very quickly.

Noteworthy features:

No installation or administrator rights required! Just download and run.
Gapless playback of properly encoded files. Enjoy smooth transitions between tracks.
ReplayGain support.
External software is currently required to write ReplayGain information to file tags to utilize this functionality.
Contents of your music folders are shown, in a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view.
By default, contents of "my music" folder or Windows Music library folders are shown. You can configure Boom to index music from any other folders though.
You can install Boom to removable media and have it index contents of the folder it is installed in.
Are your files badly tagged or missing tags alltogether? No problem, Boom can browse your music library by its folder structure.
Supports variety of popular audio formats, including: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A, WMA.
For emergency tagging needs, Boom includes a simplified version of the foobar2000 Properties dialog.
Easily configured to run from removable media.
Multilanguage support.
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: F.O.Bean on June 23, 2013, 01:39:52 AM: Quote from: H₂O on June 17, 2013, 04:09:55 PM
Quote from: runonce on June 07, 2013, 12:43:19 PM
http://www.foobar2000.org/ (http://www.foobar2000.org/)
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: dlh on June 23, 2013, 10:14:23 AM: I use MediaMonkey.
It has so many features that takes a little time to figure out.
There is a free version. I use the pay version because it will convert "on-the-fly" when sync-ing my ipod.
It will tag from your choice of locations, and rename files according to tags.
Feature rich, but takes time to learn.

Dave
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: George on June 24, 2013, 07:55:47 AM: Quote from: anodyne33 on June 17, 2013, 04:47:03 PM
Man, am I the only person using Winamp? I must suck.

Nope, I use it too.
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: Fried Chicken Boy on June 25, 2013, 02:26:32 PM: Used MediaMonkey for a long time and then tried Foobar a few years ago due to all the suggestions and accolades. Never looked back.

XBMC and Boom both look interesting.
Title: Re: Flac playback on computer
Post by: runonce on June 25, 2013, 10:35:52 PM: Quote from: Fried Chicken Boy on June 25, 2013, 02:26:32 PM
Used MediaMonkey for a long time and then tried Foobar a few years ago due to all the suggestions and accolades. Never looked back.

XBMC and Boom both look interesting.

This is on the the top of my list of "things to check out"

http://openelec.tv/

perhaps tangential at this point - but this product seems promising.