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Posted by jbmcb (A) on February 24, 2006 at 20:31:57

In Reply to: Windows Media Player / Kmixer posted by Astroboy on February 24, 2006 at 17:32:44:

As far as I know, WMP is pretty much welded into DirectSound, which in turn uses the regular kmixer output path. I guess it's possible to write another output plugin, in the form of some DSP module or something, for WMP, but nobody has bothered.

> I do not want to switch to iTunes or Foobar, but if I have no choice I will try Foobar

foobar2000 is the best choice if you want to bypass kmixer right now, at least it's the most flexible with it's output options. Winamp also has ASIO and kernel streaming plugins available, though they are a bit buggy.

> Itunes is a piece of s*** software quality wise.

You have an odd definition of software quality, then. Of Winamp, foobar2000, and WMP, iTunes is the only software I haven't had crash on me when doing simple, everyday tasks. I've managed to crash WMP playing back a WAV file, for pete's sake. Granted, it was a corrupt WAV file, but crashing from standard file input? That's easy enough to check for, and not doing so is just sloppy programming.

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