The best audio player

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  1. mp5

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    Never mind, it takes two persons to reason in a conversation.
    https://audiosex.pro/threads/the-best-audio-player.52032/page-3#post-453913
     
  3. mp5

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    Since mp3 is over-compressed by its nature, I think transient response of a mp3 decoder is of more importance than detail, since it makes the reproduction more lively.
     
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    mp5 has ears like talmi....
    if you have those ears you look deeper...
     
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    A really cool tiny player is 1by1. It also plays entire directories. Good for PC music production systems, imo.

    https://mpesch3.de/1by1.html

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    I'm still loving Winamp but also like Resonic Player very much:

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    Good answer! Just like MIDI, MP3 or any file makes no sound. Do you realize how smart I'm going to sound down at the library?
     
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    Ye, but maybe the question wasn't about the best quality in sound but the best handling, best GUI, best software to go with every day.
     
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    ah okay, you meant encoding. that makes sense. you can always use your favourite encoder for converting and use your favourite player for playing
     
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    Music is often a challenge to materialist reductivism. No single element makes the sound, but the whole system (the sound reproducing chain). Players are important part of that chain since they must decode encoded files - lossy or lossless - (except WAV). They also do DSP 'remastering' of the files (if set to do so) including gain control, stereo balancing, oversampling, dithering, noise shaping, bit-depth, compressing, limiting, EQ-ing, transient shaping, eventual speed changing, making various other effects, etc. An important aspect is how well is it all interconnected and harmonized, and how well the player communicates and synchronizes with the mediating system software and the sound card.
     
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    i would say the speaker does :D
     
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    Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut.
     
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    The speaker left by itself is mute. Speechless, can't speak.
     
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    it still makes the sound, it literally moves the air :)
     
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    Only when it gets your orders through the player.
    But if the sound is bad, it will blame you.
     
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    I've tested all of the players mentioned in this thread I did not before. The results are:
    1. Resonic very good, but no pull option (in free version), blocks the sound card when loaded even when there's no playback, somewhere in-between Winamp ~Apollo,
    2. 1b1 very solid but nothing special, has DS output only,
    3. XM player just average,
    4. Clementine quite meek,
    5. Music Bee, shallow, plain sounding, dull.
     
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    Yeah that's actually a compare I've done. Bewtween resonic (pro) and Aimp4. Resonic has a much better transient response, the stereo image is better, it's just clearer.
    I've honestly always figured that it was because I use resonic with asio. It's probably not even why it sounds better, never really bother with this kind of stuff.
     
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    win amp....for throwing lists quickly....resonic for sample browse...

    for video vlc and mpc-hc...the very few formats vlc not plays , plays mpc-hc player...
     
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