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1)music through VLC sounds much clearer than through anything else. even through foobar working through itunes via multiplugin. why?

2)how do i set file type associations for VLC?

3)how come if i put goom as the default visualizer (or actually, any visualizer besides now), it doesnt load? it like locks up or something.

4)Sometimes during videos the audio keeps on going after i press stop or pause. also, the audio goes off sync a lot when i rewind and stuff...its really annoying. anyway to fix it?

im using default settings with the wmp11 skin

1)music through VLC sounds much clearer than through anything else. even through foobar working through itunes via multiplugin. why?

(1) Because VLC is the best! Honestly I’m not too sure. Maybe it’s because VLC uses “High quality audio resampling”.

(2) To set the file association you’ll have to reinstall VLC media player, sorry. During the installation, where you choose the plug-ins, scroll down and check the box that associates VLC with you’re media files.

(3) Don’t really use the visualizations, so I can’t help you there.

(4) Might be the video(s) that you’re playing, I don’t know. Maybe you could try to increase the priority of the process by going to: Preferences > Advanced > “Increase the priority of the process” and see if this helps. If the audio goes out of sync, you can use: "ctrl K" and "ctrl I" hotkey to readjust the audio delay up or down.

To point 3, afaik visualizations also use the standard VLC video-output, and vout in skins2 is very buggy, if you want to use visualizations I would recommend you to switch to the normal interface. But I also heard that the vout is currently under redevelopment so I hope the issues concerning vout+skins2 are solved in the near future.