Foo_DSP_Silence

foo_dsp_silence (officially known as Affix silence) is a digital signal processing (DSP) component for the foobar2000 audio player. Its primary function is to insert a user-configurable duration of absolute silence before and/or after every audio track during playback. Key Use Cases

MiniDisc Track Marking: It helps hardware recorders (like external MiniDisc players) properly detect track changes and apply automatic track marks.

Hardware Receiver Delays: It accommodates slower digital audio receivers or DACs that drop the first few milliseconds of audio while initializing a connection.

Listening Separation: It manually adds breathing room between eclectic tracks in a playlist. Main Features

Configurable Positioning: Users can add padding exclusively as pre-track silence, post-track silence, or both.

Noise Insertion: Modern versions allow users to choose between inserting absolute digital silence or low-level comfort noise.

Smart Behavior: It is designed with playback callbacks that can bypass adding silence during mid-track seeks or manual skips.

Dark Mode Support: The modern component configuration panel natively supports foobar2000’s dark interface mode. Installation & Configuration

The component can be downloaded from the official foobar2000 Components Repository. To use it: Open foobar2000 and go to Library > Configure > Components. Install the downloaded file and restart the player. Navigate to Preferences > Playback > DSP Manager. Move Affix silence to the Active DSPs column.

Select the plugin and click Configure selected to adjust the time parameters in milliseconds.

If you are setting this up, let me know what hardware you are connecting to or what problem you are trying to solve (like audio cutting off at the start of songs) so I can help you dial in the exact millisecond settings. Affix silence – foobar2000: Components Repository