Foobar2000 Alternative For Mac Os X
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People have been running foobar2000 under Wine for awhile, mostly successfully. However, it's kind of a hassle to have to download, read about, and configure Wine correctly when you just want to be listening to your music already. To alleviate some of the annoyance, I've created a little app bundle and installer for foobar2000 and Wine. What you get is a foobar2000.app that you can just double click on and it will load more or less like any other app. Of course, the controls look like Windows controls, but hey, we can't have everything, right?
I haven't had a chance to test this bundle extensively, so it would be useful if Mac OS X users could try it and give me some feedback. You can download it here.
Note 1: You will need X11 installed to run this. It may already be installed. If not, find it on the Mac OS X install disc.
Note 2: If you have previously one of the beta versions, I recommend deleting your old installation first. Make sure to back up any custom foobar2000 settings.
The download is ~60MB, mostly because it is bundled with Wine. If you already have Wine installed, this should still work perfectly – it should just use the local Wine configuration contained in the app bundle and ignore your previous installation. Nothing is installed to your system directories so your existing version of Wine won't be overwritten or anything like that.
And of course, here are some screenshots of it in action:
Disclaimer: This distribution is experimental and not officially supported. I did speak with Peter about it before I uploaded it and I believe he is having his testers take a look at it, but if you encounter problems, please notify me or post in this thread for the meantime.
Have fun and don't forget to leave feedback if you check it out.
Foobar Alternative Mac Os X
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Using iTunes on WinXP, sound quality isn't as good as foobar ASIO through the 1212m. PatchMix and/or the Windows kmixer seem to be the reason for the lower quality.
To improve iTunes sound quality, I added an AirPort Express and connected it to an external DAC. This sounds better than than going through the 1212m.
My CEC DA53 also has USB inputs. Using the plug-and-play Windows USB audio codec also resulted in substandard sound with iTunes. Then I tried the USB ASIO driver from Ploytec (www.usb-audio.com) and was pleasantly surprised by the improvement. Sound quality seems equal to or better than the AirPort Express optical output or foobar through the 1212m.
I'm interested if owners of other USB DACs such as the AQVOX, Corda Aria, Porta Corda MkIII USB, HeadRoom MicroDAC or Firestone Fubar II have tried using the USB ASIO driver or other alternatives such as ASIO4ALL.
Ploytec provides demo downloads of Windows and Mac versions of their USB ASIO driver (http://www.usb-audio.com/download.html). The demo version has an annoying beep every 30 seconds that is removed when registered.