OT recommended audio player?

[Reujonik]

Maybe you are running foobar with administrator rights. Make sure that the box next to the "run as admiistrator" in the properties>compatibility is unticked.

[Richard Rupert]

Maybe you are running foobar with administrator rights. Make sure that the box next to the "run as admiistrator" in the properties>compatibility is unticked.

...and maybe in "compatibility mode for Win XP"...

[Dave Labrecque]

When I right-click on a selected sound file and select "play in foobar2000" from the menu, foobar2000 never opens. If I first open foobar2000 and attempt to drag and drop the file into the UI, I get that circle-with-line-through-it symbol that indicates "file can't go here". This is in Windows10 Pro. I have the Home version on my laptop, and couldn't use foobar there either.

FWIW, for me, method #1, above, works fine. And method #2 works (loads the sound file into Foobar2000, ready for playback) so long as I drop the file below the various toolbars. I get the circle-with-a-line-through-it above that point, and the "creating shortcut" icon below that point, before the drop. But it works.

Seems like a Foobar install or configuration issue within Windows to me. Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling? I have Foobar2000 set up as my default audio player (double-click on a sound file in File Explorer), FWIW.

[Cary B. Cornett]

Maybe you are running foobar with administrator rights. Make sure that the box next to the "run as admiistrator" in the properties>compatibility is unticked.

Yes, that's what I was doing. I unchecked the box, and foobar operated normally.

Almost.

During playback, I will get an occasional "click" noise. These happen just one at a time, at random intervals, never less than a few seconds apart, usually more than a minute or so apart. I could back up and replay the same part of the file, and the click would not be there, so I know it was not in the file itself.

So, I installed Resonic and tested it. I got it to play files, and had the exact same random click problem. This suggests that the fault is not with either foobar or resonic.

I spent some time working with SawStudio. During that time, I did not get any of these random clicks. I have "force real time priority" set in SAW. I'm not sure, but I think that before I made that change I was getting occasional random clicks during playback from SAW.

So now I have new questions: Is there some change I can make in Windows 10 to make it "play nice" better with these applications? I have already done all of the recommended tweaks, including the best approximation I can make from Bob's instructions, plus trimming processes according to the latest Black Viper list and the suggestions that Sweetwater posts for computer optimization.

Or, is there some application I don't know about that gets around whatever crap W10 is imposing?

[Dave Labrecque]

Yes, that's what I was doing. I unchecked the box, and foobar operated normally.

Almost.

During playback, I will get an occasional "click" noise.

Just a thought: have you tried out the different audio device options in Foobar2000? Different drivers sometimes will behave differently.