Foobar Dark Mode

[Lcs Basinger]

asan update to my previous foobar fiddling, copilot being added to windows apparently rubbed me wrong enough to change my default boot partition and see if WINE with some theming could achieve decent dark modes

foobar columns UI got support for dark mode last year, and I feel the urge to mention you can finally make foobar look pretty decent without having to comb through pages of third-party themes. this leaves mIRC as the last application I still regularly use without a dark mode, which I think we can confidently say is unlikely to ever get one

most of my adolescence involved using some kind of winamp 2.x, which is still totally serviceable, but I do prefer hanging on to software that has current community support. winamp still maintains vbulletin forums even through their acquisitions and seems to have some original staff posting, so for as much teeth gnashing as I've done about them legitimizing NFTs there seem to be people there still interested in keeping their heads down and making decent software. I installed the latest 5.x and it looks untouched at surface level from when I regularly used it, like I untombed a program from an old IDE drive

You already have all you need. Browser detection is done with CSS following the Media Queries Level 5 specification using a prefers-color-scheme media query for detection. If you're familiar with responsive web-design with CSS then you already have all the knowledge - the only difference is that responsive CSS is about geography (sizes, columns, padding, spacing, font-size, etc.) and prefers-color-scheme is about ... well ... color. Thomas Steiner (@DenverCoder9) has an awesome article "prefers-color-scheme: Hello darkness, my old friend" that covers this.

Either way - there is a significant drawback in server-side detection (both with Thomas' recommendation and my solution below) in that the server will only know about a state change (e.g. macOS "Auto" mode when night fall happens) on the next server request, or more visibly, the first load of the page.

Having said that - if you must insist on PHP or server-side detection there is no workaround - but one must use some JS. The most efficient way is to leverage the js-cookie/js-cookie project, and include the following code into your HTML pages:

If you want to do just a button for change the css, i don't really know how to do it, but if you want to do another webpage but just for Dark Mode, just put the clone off the css that you created.

For the time being I will keep the two old foo_dsd_asio modes (now renamed to mode 4 and 5) in case some one has trouble with the DSDTranscoder component but they will be eventually removed as they are now redundant.

To enable this, run the installer from the DSDTranscoder folder of the extracted SACD plugin location or download the component from _transcoder/ , extract the content from the zip and run the DSDTranscode executable file, accept all default options until installation is complete.

My iFi iDSD micro supports native DSD through ASIO up to DSD512 but only for 44.1K based sample rates like SACD rips or upsampled CDs, for 48K based sample rates like those generated by upsampling 16/48, 24/96 or 24/192KHz to DSD it only supports up to DSD256 through DoP. With this component it takes very little time and effort to configure all 44.1K family to output native DSD and leave all 48K family in bypass (leaving the default dash, -).

Version 1.1.1 introduces two new user configurable fields (Window Length and Window Type) plus the possibility of performing sample rate conversion in the upsampling process, more on these a few paragraghs down.

Since the plugin is not included any longer in the plugin zip file, it needs to be downloaded separately from here ( version 0.9.4 is strongly recommended), decompressed to a folder and installed separately as a any other program.

So should you want to leave DSD unprocessed make sure you have all these PCM rates with no up/downsampling configured like in the shown screen capture. This may be a little of a nuisance if you have plenty 176.4 or 352.8K PCM music you want to convert to DSD but presently there is no alternative solution other than resampling these files with SOX to a 48KHz base, e.g. 176.4K->192K and 352.8->384K.

One example of what can be done with this mode is upsampling 176.4 or 352.8 KHz PM to DSD while being able to output true DSD without intermediate conversions. This cannot be done in any of the previous modes as this sample rates are shared by PCM and DSD64/128 in DoP mode output by the plugin.

This is how the above would look like aiming to upsample all PCM to the maximum DSD rate supported by my iFi iDSD micro (native DSD512 for 44.1 based PCM and DSD256 DoP for 48K based PCM) while leaving DSD unmolested:

Hello. I have foobar and DSD Transcoder installed. I have a modern delta-sigma DAC (Opera Consonance reference 1.3). I doubt the quality of Foobar (a free software) and its configuration options (converter, sample & hold, window ..), in the work of converting from PCM to DSD. What is your opinion? Is it better to convert PCM to DSD using Foobar and input the DSD file to the DAC? Or is it better to send a bit-perfect PCM file and have the DAC do all the internal conversion work designed by the manufacturer?

The simplest answer I can give you i to test it yourself and be honest, try no to avoid any bias or preconceived ideas. Techincally the computer + software option is more poweful and accurate but wheather that is actually a real advantage, as in one you can truly hear and consistently identify, or it is moot and irrelevant is up to you te decide.

Thanks. My question concerns how to optimize an electronic system to obtain the best objective quality. The perceived quality as you say can only be experienced by listening. I appreciate your clear opinion about it and therefore preferably I will configure the output of foobar using DSD converter with your recommended configuration and DsdTranscoder to send it to the Dac through Dop.

Should I use Mode 4 with iFi xDSD Gryphon? because it doesnt support 48k-based DSD.

To make my life easy, can I just upsample all 44.1k-based to DSD512 in DSDProcessor?

Then configure the 48k-based to Dop256 in ASIOProxy?

Can I ignore the whole story of dsd64/128 sharing channel with pcm176/352 ? because then dsd256 will share with pcm705k and its not taken into account in this tutorial, right?

Hello. I have been using MODE 3 for some time now, following your advice, and I enter all my PCM files converted to DSD 128 into the DAC, using the foobar DSP and DSD Transcoder. My DAC (Opera Consonance 1.3) has 3 filters: fast, slow and DSD Direct. For the DSD files I can choose any of the 3. The point is that I like the fast and slow files better, especially with opera voices. My question is, from a technical point of view, if to use these PCM filters it is still preferable to continue converting all my native PCMs to DSD128 and enter the DSD128 DAC, or use one of the other DSPs available in foobar to resample the PCM at 176.4 or 192 MHz depending on the native frequency and enter a PCM 176/192 into the DAC. What is your opinion? Ramon.Spain

Converting to 24/96 and then to DoP at 11.2 is quite pointless, if you want to up sample in Foobar it makes more much more sense to go straight from 16/44.1>DSDxxx (xxx being the gihest your DAC supports).

This is meant to be done real time while playing not saving it to a DSD file, that would be a hughe waste of space.

Have you followed all the steps to configure DSD output correctly? does your DAC actually support DSD? what output are you using? is there a specific reason for using a 2 year old version of the SACD plugin?

Does your DAC support DSD256? Most do not. Regardless, try using the DSD Processor to change the DSD256 to DSD64 or DSD128. Does the ASIO driver for your DSD DAC have a configuration setting in foobar2000 in the ASIO+DSD output section of preferences? Are you using the 64-bit driver option in that same preference section? Try changing that option to whatever you are not using. My DSD DAC uses DoP and that has to be configured within foobar2000.

You are sending an unsupported stream to your DAC and that means you probably have something misconfigured. Go through all steps again making sure everything is correct. In the ASIO window check the 64bit box if you are using a x64 Windows version.

Yes..My DAC support Native DSD256 and the ASIO Driver is supported through Native Playback with DSD Transcoder. ASIO Driver also have the configuration setting in Foobar-Output (ASIO+DSD) which my DAC Driver can change preferred ASIO Buffer Size and Safe Mode

Hi, my set up is an i5 Acer with Foobar as a player, a Topping D10s and also the internal PCM DAC of my Denon SACD 2010AE. The Topping D10s is a DSD DAC itself which supports native DSD 64-256 through analog RCA output, otherwise DoP64 through spdif coaxial RCA, as it can also be used as a USB-coaxial bridge. It also needs an ASIO driver to work. I would like to realize a configuration which allows me to output bit-perfect PCM through coaxial directed to the Denon DAC, or otherwise bit-perfect DSD through the Topping DAC. I would be grateful if you could help me just choosing one or maximum two alternative configurations to work with. I read all your sections one and two but I must be more than a dummy and I can not decide myself which one to choose. I thank you in advance for your help.

A style changes the visual appearance of styled controls. These can be common controls as part of the component library but also application controls or even containers. To be able to style a UI successfully, all controls need to adhere to a common style programming guide which shows the developer how to ensure that newly created components are styleable.

In case the application does not use custom controls and all styling is already done by the common controls library and no work is needed here. This chapter is more for people who need to create custom controls or have specific UI requirements deviating from a common set.

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