Do music player programs (Foobar, Winamp, Dopamine, etc.) affect the quality of digital music file playback? Or do they just spit out digital information to the DAC? Or sound quality changes due to prebuilt internal EQ from the player (software)? I am wondering if some programs fail to send complete digital information of a FLAC file to the DAC? Maybe it’s placebo thing; Potplayer (I use it to watch video files) makes the music much noisier than VLC to my ears.

If no difference, are there some better programs (for Windows) to playback digital music files (ie FLAC)? No commercial, no privacy theft, etc.

Thanks!

  • Woofy98102@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The best and most versatile is JRiver Media Center. Its file management is outstanding and its player is second to none, offering bit-perfect playback, the ability to integrate DIRAC Live room correction, a huge DSP section and so much more. Mind you, start off simple because it can get overwhelmingly complicated if you’re not careful. But, combined with the world’s best CD ripper software, dBpoweramp, you can put together an incredibly powerful multimedia powerhouse since you can also build a massive digital movie library if you want…or you can set it up for music only like I have.