The idea behind the tool was to improve the computer’s music playback, by removing all the digital processes applied by the OS.Ī first plugin came out, only available for macOS at the beginning, designed like a Foobar nerdy little brother – if the first was not nerdy enough. About AudirvanaĪudirvana is a French company, founded 10 years ago by Damien Plisson. It’s available directly from the company’s website for €6.99 per month.ĭisclaimer: Audirvana didn’t pay or endorse us for this review, I subscribed to the Audirvana Studio’s Free trial and took a subscription on my own, to test the software in the long run. I've tried JRiver in the past, and while it's also very flexible, I think it's more aimed at casual users, albeit still being a niche player.In today’s article, we take a look at Audirvana Studio, a third-party player for your PC/MAC, that aims to improve your listening.

If you like to tinker or just customize things to your liking fb2k is for you. Also fb2k was one of the first to support Replaygain. While I do tagging with beets nowadays, the fb2k tag editor is still the best for me. If you just listen to music, I don't think it matters much, but I also convert a large amount of files between formats, I like to resample using specific plugins, I apply custom dither etc. For me, foobar2000 does everything I need. It broke here and there with new plugin versions, but I always managed to fix the source code so that it continued to run. I've been using the Spotifoo skin for years now. Actually, 'Stop after current' in the playback menu was my feature request.

I remember when Peter quit Winamp and developed foobar and I was in the IRC channel where the first versions were released. I have used foobar2000 since it was v0.1 or whatever was the first.

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