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Delay when opening files from applications except Explorer

Dear developers and users of Foobar2000,

I use version 1.3.4 beta 1 on virus-free Windows 7 SP1 x64 as administrator and face an annoying behavior:
a) media files opened directly from Explorer (shell), load and play immediately (and that's very cool, considered to be a normal state)
b) media files opened from 3rd party apps (FAR, Total commander, Double commander, Everything, etc), load with perceptible delay of ~1000-1500 ms

But there is no such delay (call from Explorer and 3rd party apps gives same results) if I use another media player. AIMP, for example.
Maybe there’s something wrong with my workspace, maybe it's a Foobar bug, let’s trace it. Could you help me?

P.S. I'm ready to record a screencast to illustrate the issue if it helps.
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Delay when opening files from applications except Explorer

Reply #1 –
This is a known issue (well, not really an issue; it works this way by design). See here; the behavior can be fixed in Total Commander, but I don't use the rest of the file managers that you listed.

Delay when opening files from applications except Explorer

Reply #2 –
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See here; the behavior can be fixed in Total Commander, but…


Thank you for a quick reply. I'm glad to know that issue is Foobar2000 related, let's proceed from here.

There are two obvious flaws with mentioned workaround:
a. it's time-consuming experience to map every necessary media extension (*.mp3/flac/opus etc) to Foobar /immediate switch within 3rd party file managers
b. it’s of no use with apps like Everything that use same Windows system default Open that causes painful delay

Am not a developer myself, but there should be a simple and nice solution implemented to this, right? Like some option in Advanced tab of Foobar2000.
In a word, computers are meant to make our life easier and speed up the routine, so could developers be so kind and do something about it?
• Join our efforts to make Helix MP3 encoder great again
• Opus complexity & qAAC dependence on Apple is an aberration from Vorbis & Musepack breakthroughs
• Let's pray that D. Bryant improve WavPack hybrid, C. Helmrich update FSLAC, M. van Beurden teach FLAC to handle non-audio data

Delay when opening files from applications except Explorer

Reply #3 –
You may be right, you may be not. It is up to the developers to decide.

In Total Commander, I use a custom command assigned to a hotkey which adds all selected files to foobar2000: "C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe" /immediate /add %P%S, where %P%S is documented as follows:
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%P%S insert the names of all selected files into the command line, with full path. Names containing spaces will be surrounded by double quotes. Do NOT put quotes around %P%S yourself!