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Pro Plugins can be used to bypass Windows mixer to output a bit-exact signal
Through the use of a plugin (of which there are three popular ones), users can get bit-exact sound output straight to their DAC or soundcard. While not something every user will use, for audiophiles this is a pretty important feature.
Pro Functionality can be extended with components
Foobar200 has over a hundred components to choose from that add UI functionality, decoding support for various formats, etc.
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Cons
Con Outdated plugins
Many, many plugins are outdated and not maintained for years, leading to stability issues with a lof of them. A rather complex SDK and missing sufficient documentation makes maintaining or creating new plugins unnecessarily hard.
Getting to that neat GUI setup you've seen somewhere is probably impossible because of that.
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Recommendations
foobar2000
Recommended a year ago
Foobar2000 is my favourite to "quickie" listen and to thoroughly taggit, meta-rape-it and download music art. I use it almost from begin, because it's not eating my CPU and RAM like AIMP or those bigger librarians. There are a lot of extensions that can easy something or... yes, to more confus...
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LightweightPro
Functionality can be extended with componentsPro
Supports a wide variety of audio formatsPro
Highly customisablePro
Plugins can be used to bypass Windows mixer to output a bit-exact signalPro
Advanced layoutPro
Internal search is a beastPro
Good qualityPro
Variety of skins availablePro
Lots of themes made by foobar users.Con
Not easy to skinCon
Outdated pluginsCon
Cumbersome start-upfoobar2000
a year ago
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