Soundbase 2008.5.7

Publisher's Description:

Soundbase was created to fill a gap in the large amount of free and commercial players/taggers. We do not pretend to have the ultimate audio solution, but Soundbase will most likely fit somewhere into your playing or tagging experience - it will always give you a quick way of doing common tasks.

Latest Changes:

• Added 16/24/32 processing (24/32bit with bass plugin support)
• Added Images.google.com to search engines default settings
• Added 32bit processing on replaygain
• Fixed some minor bugs

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	aszure	Apr 20, 2008
Version:	2008.4.18
Not too bad of a program. I found that it wasnt too fantastic with finding album artwork, but I do like the interface. A few features are missing that I would like to see. But overall pretty nice. Worth the download, wont replace mediamonkey for me, but its worth the download.
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Reviewer:	RickYZ	Mar 29, 2008
Version:	2008.3.28
Just to ensure everybody understands how soundbase works compared to other players. Soundbase doesnot use any DLLs, nor does it in itself play audio. The only thing it does is send files to the DirectX layer, the same layer used by windows media player, and a whole bunch of other players. So soundbase sounds as good as your DirectX setup does. If your codec on your PC is crap, then any DirectX player on your PC sounds crappy (or in case of video looks crappy). As this can be prevented by having a DLL, soundbase offers the alternative of using BASS drivers, a set of DLLs that provide, similar to, and partly using the DirectX layer. Now anyone claiming that either windows media player or BASS gives a bad sound quality, hmmmm. I dont know ....
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Reviewer:	Eric.de.Heer	Mar 29, 2008
Version:	2008.3.28
Hi Grinch89, you are missing out on a great opertunity here, soundbase uses both the DirectX codec as well as it can use BASS, both offer high quality playback! Of course if you do use DirectX then it is your own responsibility to ensure that you have the best directx codec installed! The websites forum gives you plenty of info on good codec, or if you want to use BASS, just go into Soundbase options - player page and press the install BASS button. You would be the first to complain on BASS's sound quality for sure! We can keep this up Grinch, I really don't think that an app this good, deserves only 2 stars!! For me 2 stars is like close to crap?! Again, Soundbase delivers top quality sound, either by BASS, either by a good codec! Now I am not saying that everyone should just rate this 5 stars, but some reasoning in an overall rating might be appropriate!
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Reviewer:	grinch89	Mar 29, 2008
Version:	2008.3.28
Eric.de.Heer : Now I don't complain unless I have a good reason to do so,and Soundbase gave me reason to question the quality of the sound that was coming out of my speakers,it is not the first app to do that ,and I am sure it will not be the last.In side by side testing of these 2 apps,Music Jukebox displayed superior sound quality,period.I have been involved in music in one form or another,both in the making and reproduction of music.I know superior sound when I hear it.I did not say that SoundBase was not a good program,I simply stated that I did not care for the quality of sound.
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Reviewer:	pforbes	Jan 2, 2008
Version:	2008.01.01
I like it, but I keep using the old Musicmatch Jukebox even when it is not supported any more. BTW Soundbase doesn't work on "All" systems. If you use i.e. Windows 98 SE it loads normally and afterwards it goes on running at the background, but disappears from your screen with no notice at all.
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