User Guide

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April 2010 | revision 1.0
USBDAC Application Note 3 / 7
Listening to music using a USBDAC
We point out the player: Foobar2000”. It is a PC player which is very interesting because can use the drivers “ASIO
3
”. Using such
drivers is possible to pass the data directly to the audio board with no other digital elaborations. To use Foobar2000with the ASIO
drivers is required to properly set the player. Below the correct procedure is reported.
First of all is necessary to have the ASIO drivers and install them. Then the Foobar2000 player will be installed (if not already on the
PC) and then, by a proper “support” (“foo_out_asio.dll” to be copied into the Foobar folder) the player will be able to use the ASIO
drivers. In the last step we will have to set the Foobar to use the new ASIO drivers instead of its default ones.
These are the details:
1) Installing the ASIO drivers: you can download the ASIO drivers at the link: http://www.asio4all.com. Look for the
English revision of ASIO4ALL_2_9 and run it clicking it. The file will be downloaded and it will install itself.
Different behaviours are possible according to the used browser.
2) Installing Foobar2000: Foobar2000 is a freeware software, is possible to download its last revision at the link:
http://www.foobar2000.org/download. Click on the icon downloadof Latest stable version. The file will be
downloaded and installed. Different behaviours are possible according to the used browser.
3) Installing the ASIO drivers support: you can download the last revision for the Foobar2000 player at the link:
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_asio clicking on download”. Once downloaded the zip
file, decompress it and then copy the file “foo_out_asio.dll into the folder “\Components inside the
Foobar2000 main folder.
For example: for a standard installation of Foobar2000 which install Foobar2000 in C:\Programmi\”, the folder
will be in C:\Programmi\Foobar2000\Components: or in C:\Programs
Files\Foobar2000\Components”. The folder “\Components” will be, anyway, in the path selected when
the Foobar has been installed (at point 2).
Once the ASIO drivers have been installed, Foobar has been installed and once copied the file foo_out_asio.dll into the folder
“\Components”, the player must be set to use the ASIO drivers (which are now available).
1. Run Foobar2000 clicking the software icon: the software will open as below.
Fig. 1: Foobar2000 main screen