Yup.  The only other open source player I've found that can handle fx
radio is vlc from www.videolan.org.  Despite the name, it's a pretty
cool program; it does way more than just video.  Almost as nice as
foobar...it's a way smaller memory and CPU footprint anyway, and loads a
little faster.  Also you can have multiple vlc's open without things
breaking badly, unlike foobar.  But it's somewhat lacking in dsps; it's
got mostly the same dsp options as foobar, but something about the way
they implimented them causes them to sound like crap and not do things
in quite the way I would expect.  Also they're located in a really
non-obvious place.
Patrick Perdue wrote:
> So, hi everybody, and welcome to a very bored Borris.
> Gee, this is starting to sound like an LJ post, but it's not, nor is
> it even worthy of such. This, of course, is really saying a lot.
>  
> Anyway, my point today is to find the most inefficient way of doing
> things, such as, for example, listening to FX Radio, something which
> is rather easy to do, assuming you've got an AAC+ capable media
> player. I've heard that foobar 0.8.3 doesn't know how to do channel
> coupling, although the newer, inferior Foobar can play it. Oh well...
>  
> Anyhow, here's my really inefficient setup so far. Any suggestions are
> welcome:
>  
> I've got a virtual machine installed on my main desktop running
> Windows 2000.
> Under this machine, I've connected to my VPN, which is on the other
> ISP, and currently outside of my lan segment. This machine is running
> Tor and Privoxy. So, through the VPN, I'm tuneling through Tor to a
> remote machine somewhere. So, I have to go outside my network, across
> to my other ISP, then from there to that machine's tor socks4, to a
> remote machine. >From this point, I could, for example, connect to
> another VPN on my other ISP over the remote socks4, which would be
> incredibly slow and bad.
> Let's just leave that setp out for now.
>
> After having done all this, I load up Winamp, set it's output to a
> virtual audio cable, load up audio repeater, rout that virtual audio
> cable to yet another virtual audio cable, load another instance of
> vac, and rout the final audio cable back to the virtual Windows sound
> card, which, in itself, is emulated, and then has to be routed back to
> a physical output device, in this case my on-board Realtech card.
> After having set all this up, I can connect to FX Radio, which is
> originating from an old Compaq desktop that is less than a foot away
> from me. As a result of all this pointlessness, a very large all that
> for that situation has successfully been created.
>  
> I could have just loaded something tiny and little, but instead, I'm
> using VMWare, which uses 300something mb of ram to host the guest
> operating system, then running all this crap under that, through all
> the bad stuff mentioned previously.
>  
> By the way, I'm writing this message under said virtual machine with
> Outlook Express, a client which I absolutely hate. So, that should
> tell you how bored I am.
>  
> Now I'm going to turn off the virtual file and printer sharing, and
> purpousfully infect my virtual machine ith oads of viruses, just to
> see what they do.
>  
> For anyone interested, I just got the following on my fake messenger
> service:
>  
> Messenger Service
> Message from SYSTEM to ERROR on 12/19/2006 11:49:49 AM
> STOP!
> Registry Scan Recommended
> Please do the following:
> 1. Please visit http://www.regwinclean.com
> 2. Download Registry Cleaner
> 3. Install and scan system for critical errors.
> 4. Register and Clean all errors.
> Failure to do so may result in system instability!


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