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Title: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: dueling on July 07, 2005, 11:57:08 AM

What settings do you guys recommend for Foobar2000 for 24bit playback?  (I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard) Should I leave the standard settings that it installs with as is?... or do I need to tweak some things to get it to play true 24 bit?

for example...

I want to have Output set to waveOut?

Do I want to disable the ReplayGain?

Output Data Format at 16 bit fixed or should I bump this up to 24 bit fixed?  If I do change this to 24 bit, will it still play my 16 bit files correctly without having to switch it back?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks for the help!

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: macdaddy on July 07, 2005, 12:33:52 PM

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Output Data Format at 16 bit fixed or should I bump this up to 24 bit fixed?

do this.

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: MattD on July 07, 2005, 12:35:46 PM

IMO, you should also always have replaygain disabled. It's basically a normalizer across album tracks. Set the output directly, in case you ever want to change your windows settings but keep the audiophile as your playback device. Foobar's options can be overwhelming, but it's a great program.

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: dueling on July 07, 2005, 12:43:54 PM

thanks guys.. +T's

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: dueling on July 07, 2005, 04:03:48 PM

One more question.. have any of you used the ASIO output plug-in?  Thoughts on that, good or bad?

thanks

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: dnsacks on July 07, 2005, 04:13:03 PM

if it works with your soundcard, my understanding is that ASIO is the way to go as it avoids possible resampling, etc.

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 08, 2005, 03:44:04 PM

hey guys, I just installed foobar special... I'm not getting any sound

I went into preferences and output and changed all of the settings to my vx pocket

when I press play it doesn't appear that the tracks actually begin playing, the slider bar up top never progresses and the time on the bottom never moves from 0:00

any thoughts?

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: macdaddy on July 08, 2005, 06:42:34 PM

i get the same thing using the asio plugin from here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29879&hl=asio), which is the one that is supposed to work...

i used one in winamp wayback when (before foobar was developed, and that one was easy to use...

i really dont know, but the thread i linked to should have some answers for you...

looks like i am using waveout for a little while longer... but please post back here if you get it (foobar, asio, ap2496) running. good luck and +t

(hell, i was happy to have finally gotten milkdrop/projectm to work today, and then this comes up :P)

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 08, 2005, 10:17:57 PM

+T backatcha mac

I'm gonna check that thread out, I'll keeo you posted

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 09, 2005, 04:09:26 PM

hmmm, still no luck... I took the dll file and put it in the components foobar folder and got nothing, next I downloaded the exe version and still no luck

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: macdaddy on July 09, 2005, 04:12:53 PM

Quote from: Tim on July 09, 2005, 04:09:26 PM

hmmm, still no luck... I took the dll file and put it in the components foobar folder and got nothing, next I downloaded the exe version and still no luck

did you try setting the output to pad to 32 bits..?

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 09, 2005, 04:16:07 PM

where is that option at? I'm looking through preferences but don't see it...

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: macdaddy on July 09, 2005, 04:18:25 PM

Quote from: Tim on July 09, 2005, 04:16:07 PM

where is that option at? I'm looking through preferences but don't see it...

where you set output (16 bit fixed, etc.), but you have to check the box that says something like "show all options"

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 09, 2005, 04:23:42 PM

I've never set the output, when I'm in preferences and go to output I have the 4 outputs (waveout etc) listed but I've never seen or set anything about bitrate

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: macdaddy on July 09, 2005, 04:28:56 PM

Quote from: Tim on July 09, 2005, 04:23:42 PM

I've never set the output, when I'm in preferences and go to output I have the 4 outputs (waveout etc) listed but I've never seen or set anything about bitrate

pref > playback > there will be an output pull down about halfway down the page

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 09, 2005, 04:32:24 PM

yeah I've been there, nothing about bitrate except in the kernal output and that just says that it's optimized for 16bit

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 09, 2005, 08:01:54 PM

finally found that setting, still northing but thanks for all the help Mac :)

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 10, 2005, 05:13:12 PM

finally got it to work, I'm using "direct sound v2.0"

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: macdaddy on July 10, 2005, 05:24:29 PM

Quote from: Tim on July 10, 2005, 05:13:12 PM

finally got it to work, I'm using "direct sound v2.0"

congrats!

Title: Re: Foobar2000 settings for 24 bit playback?
Post by: Tim on July 10, 2005, 05:30:40 PM

I'm stoked... going to be a nice winamp-less afternoon ;D

thanks for all the help