FLAC format - Part 2: The player Foobar As announced, only a small delay, I present to you the first player foobar2000. Next, I meet the first promise, a review of the program Mp3tag, so you can continue to zutaggen reasonable. Please forgive me ;-)
But whether the program we really still need to be, which will be decided after this article, and your personal taste.
Program: Foobar2000
First publication: 2002 instantaneous current version: v0.9.6.8 Open Source? : closed source, but with a far-reaching API provided
Recommended: Absolutely!
Foobar2000, a player who was then the big race against Winamp and Sonique itself is lost, again appeared on the dance floor and now became far more interesting than Winamp. The years of development by Peter Pawlowski, who has pounded the program alone from the soil and so far it alone potters, has borne fruit and the player to one of the most modern, though not easily made.
What the Foobar can it ever so (in outline):
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ReplayGain (all songs on an album, or a self-assembled compilation to be a volume raised / lowered - reversible process)
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Gapless playback (pieces can be played without interruption, provided the appropriate music format - mp3 / flac & Co. - it supports - for this we come back later)
- support for a huge number of formats (in principle why play is everything - and if it is not available directly from the installation, so there is probably already somewhere a plug-in for the format)
- A fairly large community, not least for developing additional plug- the necessary and important for survival is
- trans coden The ability to transfer songs (from a Format to another, Flac to Wav, Flac to Mp3 etc), while maintaining the metadata (exception: Embedded cover must then be integrated via an external program again, see later MP3Tag)
As soon as the first Foobar start time, is one which (for some) simple surface
on, which can miss programs like Winamp and the required right after the order requested. Arrangement? Exactly, at the first start (and later changed) the basic layout of the program representation is determined. Where does the library, where the visualization may
etc. The fact that this move quite minimalist, is entirely by the developer so desired. The appearance is in fact adapted, but provided with difficulties and nastier Scripterei. So I personally do not have the opportunity to fairly simple and straightforward to integrate skins, or even to create. The times are with me (unfortunately? Fortunately?) Over, where I spent hours anyway, with some code fragments to tinker a skin, so my players looked a little better than that of my neighbors. If this does not interfere, which is related to the Foobar quite _große_ his joy, otherwise you are certainly welcome to look into the scripting of Foobar and customize the design pretty much complete - time, technical understanding and provided the necessary plug-ins.
one has come to terms with the small stain of difficult skinbar, one finds a stable program that already some very useful plug bring-ins, falling by which not only the capabilities of the MP3 Repair (check integrity to correct inaccurate Mp3 header - VBR - assemble, decode, and even new), but also the processing of tags, the above-mentioned trans codes and even CDs can be archived with the Foobar. You can
his collection a continuous Replay Gain miss scan, which is then written into the tags of the file (and thus reversible), or embed the edit
Cuesheets .
Extending the Foobar even with the one or other plug-in, you get a powerful player that not only music can play in all variations, but they still managed to provides tags, converts or archives the library (I would still be at EAC ;-)).
lyrics are no problem. We can, with the appropriate add-on (yes, there are a lot of), Lyrics download it directly into the Foobar (partially synchronized, active singing along) to embed into the file or copy.
Summary:
Positive: - Many formats
- Thanks to powerful plug-ins expandable
- large, vibrant community
Negative: - closed source
- Embedded album art is increasingly used as a step-child
- Skinning with pain
Links: - The official site - The official plug-ins and the program download - The German community - The support forums at Hydrogen Audio (english) <- Dort sind die meisten der 3rd Party Plug-Ins zu finden, stöbern lohnt sich.
The biggest question in advance of the release was certainly whether KIZ could keep the level of its predecessor " cockfight 
" which is simply a really great album was. 
with a maximum of 2-3 not so good tracks in my opinion (of course, subjective and a matter of taste, as always ;-)) and otherwise just really good rap. Who the previous albums was good, it will be here to celebrate too. 
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and hear the drive up and down. 
