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Basic Foobar Question

My cd collection is saved in lossless format on my PC's HD in iTunes. It's sent wirelessly downstairs to a Zardoz (modded Airport Express) that's wired to my pre. Based on the positive comments regarding Foobar, I now want to make the move to using Foobar in lieu of iTunes. Is it just a simple matter of moving my music files from iTunes to Foobar? Will I lose the current tags? And if I add a cd in the future, does Foobar pull in the tag info like iTunes, or will I have to type in the all the info? Is it possible to retain iTunes thereby having 2 music libraries -one to play my music via Foobar on my high end system and a second library in iTunes that will retain my wife's music that she likes to have on her iPod?
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kijanki
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Why to use Foobar? You send data to your AE in packets. Data has no timing (recreated by AE). Nothing on your computer side make difference (unless program does data processing - like upsampling).

Standard AE has decent digital output (258ps jitter) but 10x worse analog out. I don't know what modification does but getting reclocking (upsampling DAC) or separate reclocker (even better) and the DAC might improve sound.

http://www.stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/505apple
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