The first option given in the installation process is installation type, standard or portable. Once the player and all plugins have been downloaded first step will be installing the player. Implementing support for this in other inputs is beyond my control. Also includes a packet decoder for Matroska files containing AC3 streams. If you happen to have files encoded with either of these codecs the following plugins will need to be installed. Link: SACD plugin homepage.ĪPE files, Latest version 2. A change log is included in the zip file. Next is a recommended selection for playing most common high resolution material. Notice separate values for Event and push mode are available see image below so adjust the one you are using. Similar performance to ASIO and broader compatibility. It is a robust low latency way to get all the bits as close to the original as possible. If you want to get bit perfect as in no resampling or additional processing the best way is using any of the systems that avoid going through the Windows Mixer namely. DirectSound is designed as a single bit depth and sample rate method, this means verything that differs from the configured system resolution will get automatically resampled to match it.ĭirectSound by default is usually configured for 16bit 48KHz in most systems which negates any hypothetical benefit of higher bit depths or sampling rates. The player and most but not all plugins can be downloaded from here: Link: Foobar download page.

Before installing anything, first download the player and desired plugins into the same easy to locate folder, it makes installation and setup easier and quicker if everything is located in a single place. It does not deal with any other aspects adding extra functionality such as streaming, file tagging, etc.

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