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colin.hepburn wrote:Anyone know off a descent free media player as this foobar is a piece of shit its crashing my pc with blues screen if death it was to go :x
very very very very unlikely.

fwiw I really think you need to know a whole lot more about the environment before you accuse foobar
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pre65 wrote:Foobar IS a decent free media player. :wink:
Free yes decent no it don't working I having to keep reboot the dac every time i pause or stop a track or select a different album and it crashes my pc I can't have this on my pc its full of bugs and unstable
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colin.hepburn wrote:
pre65 wrote:Foobar IS a decent free media player. :wink:
Free yes decent no it don't working I having to keep reboot the dac every time i pause or stop a track or select a different album and it crashes my pc I can't have this on my pc its full of bugs and unstable
I would suggest you have other problems then. :roll:
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I see the WASAPI from Foobar can operate in two different modes, have you tried both ?

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/vi ... out_wasapi
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Yep and same problems with both modes I have now uninstalled the WASAPI and it working fine now
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ed wrote:
colin.hepburn wrote:Anyone know off a descent free media player as this foobar is a piece of shit its crashing my pc with blues screen if death it was to go :x
very very very very unlikely.

fwiw I really think you need to know a whole lot more about the environment before you accuse foobar
well you explain it then why i have to re boot my dac for it to play and my pc crashing bad drivers got rid of that WASAPI and its working
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I, like Ed, would suggest that the problem lies with the environment you're running Foobar/WASAPI in.

What's running in the background that doesn't need to be running?
CCLeaner has a startup tool which allows you to see and switch off (if necessary) applications that initialise on computer startup.

I've been using Foobar for many years, in several computer environments, and it's always worked flawlessly, no matter which external sound device I've hooked the computer up to (and there have been a few).
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Your first link isn't working philip and yes as in the second link it's the wasapi driver thats the problem remover it and the dac and foobar works together in win7 32bit
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So Colin, do I take it that you are a happy bunny now ?

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pre65 wrote:So Colin, do I take it that you are a happy bunny now ?

1st link removed.
Well it works but I need to hear the full ability of the dac all I have is the 44.1 bit rate tracks so need a site that will let you play a demo of the formats upto 96k I will not be paying linn £ 18.00 just to hear this do you know of such a web site
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HI Colin,

Go to http://www.channelclassics.com/

Click on the Free download link on the right hand side.

You can download the same sample track at 44.1Khz, 96Khz and 192Khz.

This should allow a comparison to be made.

Hope this helps!

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Hi James
Thank you for the link
Not my type of music but it was only to demo the differences between 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz at 24bit
Ok after downloading the three files playing back in foobar the track in low res was worse than I expected as was track 2 and 3 why well in one answer the recording quality was a joke as was the sound flat and gray sounding so went no further with the tracks

Linn music are doing free downloads one a day for the next 25 day
http://christmas.linn.co.uk/
So downloaded the track played in foobar again the recording quality was so bad for a 24 bit 98 kHz file from linn was unacceptable again flat and gray sounding gave this a miss as well

Went on to find some live jazz 24bit 96 kHz files
This was no better But had a very in the room sound but it was the audience the band was in the back ground playing out of time and badly milked up drums with Cymbal sounds that would cut you in half hit the stop button on this track

I found two more tracks one a female jazz vocal track the other a jazz blues
The female vocal track was ok but nothing special a bigger sound perhaps than standard 44.1 kHz CD
The blues jazz track was similar in that it was a bigger sound but not better and contend some hiss and jitter maybe a bad download

Well what do I think of this so far well the recording quality is my first concern especially from the likes of linn? Second was the noise on the jazz tracks and the flat gray sound from all tracks in foobar I did play the jazz tracks in VLC media player which sounded sweeter but not better

I have never really liked computer audio and unless I can fine some quality recorded downloads of the music I like I won't be bothering with it at this time
I will be staying with the vinyl and standard CD and the blue ray DVD all have a much more involving sound
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To date I've found little issue with recording quality from Linn Records.
If things sound rubbish at your end Colin, then there's something not right with your setup.
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Colin, I'd have to agree with Chris.

I have a selection of FLAC on my hard drive, and even through the computers onboard soundcard and external amp they sound at least the equal of the same CD played on a CD player.
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