An audio player that works nice in Windows ?

[spacef]

Hi all,
what do you use to listen to music ?

I am looking for something that does not drop out, clic or freak.
I used to own media monkey which stuttered often. It is not good.

I have VLC which is better but it is not the best for audio (UI wise).

I recently tried Serato DJ Player (free) and this one works fine). So it is possible

I mostly listen to wave 44.1/32 bits (my own music). Windows media player does not read that.

Thanks

[fra77x2]

wavelab 5 for editor
vlc for player

[Rafe]

Ive used PotPlayer for a couple of years as vlc wasn't giving the results I wanted. I also read vlc had stopped updates but couldn't comfim this. PotPlayer seemed to do all of vlc, yet better and click free. Also currently supported and updated. At the time PotPlayer was the top of google recommends for pc media player. It supports Open Codec

[spacef]

thanks I downloaded PotPlayer, looks a bit nicer than VLC
no clics so far.

[w_ellis]

Foobar2000 has always been my go-to on windows.

If you want something more feature rich then Roon is excellent. I pay for that and use it every day

[valis]

Foobar2000, free and has skins if you like that (I prefer it stock, dark theme that supports fully dark now in current V2.x) and adjust the playlist presentation and top control arrangement to your liking.

Pot & VLC are video specific, though audio capable.

[nebelfuerst]

Foobar can use ASIO, which offers clickless audio on scope.

[Xite Knight v2.0]

Foobar2000 with ASIO/Scope7 gives me great playback

[spacef]

thanks !! apparenty a lot of people use foobar. I did not because the UI is "so win98"
I installed evrything (potplayer, foobar), they all work great with no clicks on the wave driver (so i do not need to switch off the daw to listen to the masters).

Roon looks great, but is it hardware solution like sonos ? (https://roon.app ) I would be more interested to know whether there is specific content for my band "matsuka dub" and how to push stuff on this kind of plateforms , ikf they are different from spotify and such

[t_tangent]

Been using Foobar here for years, using WASAPI (shared output), foo_out_wasapis component. It’s an awesome player and completely customisable but can take a bit of time getting set up the way you like it. However once done you can just copy the files over to another pc and retain the same layout. Using it in combination with the MonkeyMote app for remote control from iPhone

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[t_tangent]

On my Scope based Workbench PC

[spacef]

Just wanted to say that Pot Player worked better than Foobar on a specific track of mine. wave 32 bit + heavily mastered. Foobar could not play it without clicks and stuff. I also have the impression that the tracks sound better in Pot Player or VLC, closer to what I've heard when doing them (and I probably overdid them, but well, i think I know them)...

I've checked settings etc but found nothing that could explain this.

[valis]

If you're getting clicks set the buffer higher.

First place to look is just File > Preferences > Playback > Output (in the left tree)
Set buffer length to higher than 1000 ms and see if that helps

File > Preferences > Playback
Check the ReplayGain "Processing" mode and set it to "apply gain and prevent clipping according to peak" as perhaps it's mis-reading the gain value (ReplayGain is supported in Foobar2000). Right click the file and choose ReplayGain > Scan per-file track gain in the dropdown menu.

Lastly,
File > Preferences > Advanced (on the bottom in the left tree)
Close the triangles (click to go from ˅ to ˃ ) until you get to the "Playback" section.
"Exclusive output overrides" (check this) and set "Hardware buffer in Milliseconds" to a higher value
You can also go down to the "Buffering" portion (still under Playback section) and set this to a higher value than 512 kB
There's 2 extra values here for read-ahead and full file buffering as well, but I'm guessing it's the hardware buffer that makes a difference.

[nebelfuerst]

Here's a screenshot of my settings.
8000ms is just the size. latency of foobar is instant.

[valis]

That’s how much it stores in RAM. The hardware buffer is typically 10ms, but that might not be exposed for ASIO.

[spacef]

Thanks, I've set the buffer to 11....
will let you know if I encounter issues .

[valis]

The other cause I was looking at being possible was replay-gain somehow detecting metadata and setting playback too hot. Re-scanning fixes this, as does disabling replay-gain, but I find it useful for older material that has not faced the loudness war’s mastering tools (anything prior to late 90’s).