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Questions about limitations when Installing in Portable Mode

Good morning,

I am new to Foobar and I have installed it in Portable Mode on my Raid 6 Storage Array. I see that when Foobar is installed in Portable mode the converter does not get installed is this normal?

Also, I am using Foobar2000 in Portable mode because I use Winamp as my main player (have for years) and I also have iTunes installed because I have a iPhone so another Media Player looking for hierarchical privileges in the Windows registry is not needed or wanted for that matter.


I am a big  on music and I will be primarily using Fubar2000 for  encoding and transcoding music files and I hear people raving about Fubar2000 being fanatical about music quality and hopefully this is on the conversion end?

Can some of you experienced users please explain the defined limitations of using Fubar2000 in Portable mode? I assume that this will have no impact on encoding and transcoding my huge 2TB Live Grateful Dead Concert Library?

I am am looking to get the very best audio clarity and professional results out of using Fubar2000 please advise.

Thank you

Marshall

Questions about limitations when Installing in Portable Mode

Reply #1 –
the converter is an optional component regardless of whether you choose standard or portable. you simply need to do a custom install and select it.

edit: thinking about it, it might even be a default option. i can't remember. just re-run the installer to double check.

the limitations i can think of are:

no file type associations for any media files
as well as all your media types, there are .fth (theme) files and .fb2k-component files. on a standard install, you can double click them in explorer. with portable mode you just need to use the relevant preferences dialog to import/install them.

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I hear people raving about Fubar2000 being fanatical about music quality


this is nonsense. take from the FAQ on the official website.

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Does foobar2000 sound better than other players?

No. Most of “sound quality differences” people “hear” are placebo effect (at least with real music), as actual differences in produced sound data are below their noise floor (1 or 2 last bits in 16bit samples). foobar2000 has sound processing features such as software resampling or 24bit output on new high-end soundcards, but most of the other mainstream players are capable of doing the same by now.

Questions about limitations when Installing in Portable Mode

Reply #2 –
Now converter doesn't have its page in foobar2000 preferences. Just right-click on a file -> Convert -> ...

Questions about limitations when Installing in Portable Mode

Reply #3 –
Quote from: lvqcl on
Now converter doesn't have its page in foobar2000 preferences. Just right-click on a file -> Convert -> ...


Yes, then I'm not insane... I did install it 3 different times even the beta build to see if it was a corrupt download that was preventing the "Full" install from happening. All 3 separate installs all components were selected by me during the install. 

File associations I don't need.. seeing how this is not installed in the O.S drive I would not reckon that there would be any file associations attributed to Foobar2000 in Portable Mode.

Now for the response to the "Foobar2000 developers are fanatical about music quality"  this comes directly from the LAME website so I had to ask 

Questions about limitations when Installing in Portable Mode

Reply #4 –
If by “fanatical” you mean they use good decoding libraries and don’t go out of their way to be bad programmers whose code alters signals, then sure.

LAME’s website probably should stop contributing, even if unintentionally, to the nonsensical ‘player wars’ regarding sound quality.

Questions about limitations when Installing in Portable Mode

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Marshall on
Now for the response to the "Foobar2000 developers are fanatical about music quality"  this comes directly from the LAME website so I had to ask


At the risk of violating the Terms of Service #8: Many of us (foobar2000 users) are fanatical about music quality and the foobar2000 developers are no-nonsense fanatics about doing the right things technically.  It's a good match.  Doing the right thing technically isn't really at odds with music quality: no matter what you hear anywhere.

(db1989 answered while I was typing, oh well, at least I didn't contradict him...    )