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WinAmp Configuration
First, I'm going to hijack my own thread:
FOOBAR2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ Foobar can support SHN, FLAC and APE right out of the box and plays shows gaplessly without any configuration necessary. This is by far your easiest option. The only drawback? It's ugly as sin. Also, check out the kind of music listed in the foobar screenshot. Ugh. WINAMP http://www.winamp.com/ I prefer v2.81, old versions are available from these sites: http://www.winampheaven.net http://www.oldversion.com WINAMP SUPPORT FOR SHN - FLAC - APE Shorten: http://www.etree.org/shnamp.html FLAC: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=131643 FLAC frontend also comes with it as I recall: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ Monkey's Audio: You have to install the frontend then install the plugin, in your D:\Program Files\Monkey's Audio\MAC Winamp Plugin (PIMP).exe You can copy this and uninstall the frontend afterward if you just want the winamp plugin. http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ Or... It asks whether to install the plugin when you install the program. That's the easiest way I guess. If you chose not to do it then you can also open up the program, go to the general settings and press the button there. ***Gapless playback! Also very important is to configure WinAmp for gapless audio playback for a seamless listening experience. There's a couple ways to do this: You do not need any external gapless plugins for Winamp. Just use the default directsound/waveout plugin, go to preferences/plugins/output/configure/buffering and set the 'buffer ahead on track change' to something like 1 or 2s. Also select the fading tab and disable all fades. There, completely gapless playback without any flashy external plugins. The other alternative (you guessed it) is to use a gapless audio plugin: I believe Shnamp 2.02 comes with this one: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=24303 I use this one: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=107818 To activate after installation, use <Ctrl+P>, then go to "Output", then select one of these two. *thanks to Kotti for showing me how to configure WinAmp for gapless playback without plugins and pointing out that Monkey's Audio Frontend asks you if you want to install the WinAmp plugin when you first install it.
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Last edited by Five; 2004-10-22 at 02:26 AM. |
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Re: WinAmp Configuration
Five, with your permission I'll post this tutorial to my website and take it out of the forums. I think we should keep as few stickies in the forums as possible, and just post a single FAQ with technical tutorial links in it.
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By the way, I fail to see that this is an ugly interface....notice how you can arrange the columns any way you want. By the way, did you also know that this is fully customizable? Oh, and I can click on any of those columns and sort them. Notice the status bar and window title? By the way, those are also customizable.
Ok, Ok, so the window is somewhat colorless. But functionally, I can view and sort a lot easier. I'd love the flashy colors and all, but I'll take customizable and informative over that any day. Sorry...I had to throw in an obligatory knee-jerk defense of my favorite freeware media player. www.audiophilia.net/images/foobar2000.jpg No members have liked this post.
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Re: WinAmp Configuration
Oh, we could use a similar tutorial for iTunes (mac verison)... is there any configuration necessary, and what is it?
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ps your screenshot of foobar is much better lol
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iTunes only plays wavs/aiffs right now (and mp3/aac/oog). No flac/shn/ape unfortunately.
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Yeah I don't see what's ugly about foobar. It lists the songs it's playing and it plays them. Unlike winamp which hogs up resources with graphics, browsers all kind of useless crap. I want my player to do one thing play music well. It's a big plus that foobar can do like 500 other things although I admit it's a pain in the ass figuring out how to get it do somethings.
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dude, it looks like a folder that's all I'm saying. anyhow, I'm just providing the info for winamp because people still use it even I admit it's probably not the best choice for most people.
We also need something for linux users. Is anybody using linux here?
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Yes, foobar can be trying to figure out, but is quite rewarding once you have that all done. I cut the foobar part from Five's original post when I backed it up to my site as I'm planning a more complete and comprehensive foobar configuaration section for my site. I left the Winamp configuration part alone, so that cen be linked now from anywhere. If you ever want to change it, feel free to request a change or simply forward me a revisted html doc, and I'll do the necessary update.
Lynne, if you've got any Mac tutorials I'd like to put them up on my site as well. Even if you just want to forward me some screencaps with brief descriptions and I'll edit and format it to fit nice inside the page. I have a vision of having some nice freeware tutorials on my site, and Mac stuff is certainly needed. I will NOT post a MusicMatch to my site and would rally for no one posting on this site either. It's extremely bloated adware and nagware, uses inferior compression schemes, and AFAIK has no support for lossless files. It's totally useless software in my opinion. No members have liked this post.
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I'm just glad we have at least one Mac-addict here to help out with software from that side of the fence. No members have liked this post.
Last edited by RainDawg; 2004-10-21 at 04:53 PM. |
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