Yes. You can find a good tutorial written by Jonathan Mosen on the ACB Radio site. www.acbradio.org
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sanfilippo Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:03 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: winAmp tutorial Hi, As long as folks are sharing tips on getting the most out of winamp, I'm wondering if there's some plain text documentation around which at least summarizes things this wonderful software can do. There's a lot here, the interface is rather unusual and a tutorial explaining important features would be nice to read thru. Thanks in advance, and apologies if this is an old subject. Js -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Boyer Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 13:20 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: this is a bit lengthy, how to convert files using winamp Hey just wanted to drop a quick thank you for that mini tutorial. I remember the first time back in version 2.something, I converted my first mp3 to wav and didn't know about switching plugins back and forth. I thought I broke my machine instead I had about 30 large wave files and no sound was coming out. good times anyway I don't think I would use winamp for converting but I had to thank you for writing a nice concise mini tutorial that actually was correct and made sense. bb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:06 AM Subject: this is a bit lengthy, how to convert files using winamp > Hello everyone > > I've seen some > questions about this on a couple lists so I thought I'd write this up. > It is a bit lengthy as the subject line says but I hope you'll stick > with it. A while ago, the subject of converting files using Winamp > came up, and I thought I'd explain the process in some detail > for those who are interested. Unfortunately, real audio files don't > really work well with Winamp nowadays. At least, that's been my > experience. If anyone's been able to get them to play in Winamp 5.5, > please please let me know! > > > However, if you have a WMA file that you want as an mp3, or if you > have a cd track as a wav file that you want as an mp3, you can use > Winamp's discwriter plugin to do this task. So, here's how you do it, > step by step. Remember, if you have an interest in this, save the > e-mail somewhere and go back to it later so you can perform the steps. > > Ok, here we go! > > 1. Fire up Winamp, you knew that one would be in there. > > 2. now find the file that you want to convert and open it up in > Winamp, either by pressing enter on it or through the open file > dialogue. 3. Ok, now press the letter v to stop it, we don't want it > to keep playing. 4. now here's where the fun starts. go to the > preferences, control plus p of course. > 5. go to the plugins section and then choose output in the tree view. > > 6. now tab over to the list of plugins, and focus on the one called > the Nullsoft Discwriter plugin, your version number may vary but it > all comes to the same. > > 7. now, it's time to configure it so that we can tell what type of > file to convert to. so tab to the configure button. > > 8. now you're going to be in a dialogue with some buttons in it. the > first one will determine where your output file, that is to say your > converted file will be saved. you may hear something like,output file > location c:\doccuments and settings...my music button. If you press > that button, a dialogue will pop up and you can then determine where > your file will be saved. 9. now that you've done that, you'll be back > in the dialogue, and the next thing you'll see is a checkbox that > says,output to directory containing source files, and by default, this > is unchecked. This is so that you can have your converted file in > exactly the same folder as the original file was. > so check that if you want the file to go there, i would do that for > simplicities sake. You can always move it later. > 10. Next checkbox you'll see says, display save as dialogue for every > file. This is so that if you're converting an entire list of files, > you'll be able to determine where each file goes. I would imagine > that you would probably want them all to go in the same folder, but > maybe not? so check that if you like, i normally leave it as is > because usually I'm only converting one file. This is unchecked by > default. > 11. Next up, we have a combo box that determines if there are or > numbers at the beginning of your outputted file name. > the choices you have are, disabled, 1 digit, 2 digits, 3 digits and > 4 digits. > I can't imagine why anyone would actually want 4 digits, that is > unless you're converting literally thousands of files, which i've > never done and probably won't ever do. If I'm converting something > from an album i like to at least have a number at the beginning of > the file name, 01, or 02, depending on where you are in the playlist of > files. > but if you want to disable this, you can. > > 12. Next, we have a combo box that determines the title format, the > one by default is % title %. this means you get the % which equals > the first 2 numbers like we mentioned before, artist name, title and > then the track name. so i would keep that as is. > > 13. Next we have output file type, and the choice is set to auto > recommended. this is so you can choose different file formats. and > after that there is a checkbox that says enable single mode, which I'm > not sure about. so leave auto recommended as is, and the single mode > check box on my system is unchecked. 14. Ok, now we're getting to > the good part here, hang with me folks! this next checkbox will > determine wether or not Winamp actually remembers what file you > convert to a lot, so if you convert to mp3 a lot, leave this checkbox > checked so you can just perform the final few steps. > Now, tab once again and you'll land on a button that determines what > file you can actually convert your file to. for mine in particular, > this button says, > MPEG layer 3 192KBPS, 44.1 K Hertz, stereo > that's usually what i convert to, but if you want something > different, you can press this button and you can change the file > type, bitrate and sampling rate of your file. Note that if you don't > have the radium codec installed, you won't be able to convert to > anything higher than 56k, 22.50 k hertz stereo. > I believe the lame encoder will fix this too, and the lame encoder > should be very easy to find if you do a little hunting around. > 15. Ok, now that you've determined everything about your file, it's > time to actually do the conversion! So tab past that next checkbox, > i have no idea what the thread priority hack refers to, so just press > ok and you'll be in the preferences again. so now, close the > preferences in the usual way. > > 16. Ok, now to convert your file, press the letter x which will, > essentially play your file, but you won't hear any sound. Trust me, > you won't. that's just how this plugin works because it moves very > quickly. If you want to know the status of your conversion, press the > hotkey which reads your title bar, insert t for JAWS and control shift > t for Window-eyes, or whatever one you use. You will know your file > is converted when you hear the name of your file, followed by Winamp > stopped. Note that while the file conversion happens, you may notice > that software speech is slower to respond, and sometimes it just > doesn't happen at all, but like I say the conversions happen very quickly. > 17. If you followed all the steps above, congratulations, you just > converted your first file with Winamp. Believe me, subsequent > conversions won't be such a long process, especially if you have the > checkbox to remember your file type preferences. But before you go > listen to your newly created file, you have to switch your output > plugin back to the one you ordinarily use. If you attempt to listen > to another file, you'll just be creating more files and you'll have > a lot of stuff on your hard drive you don't want. So, open the > preferences again, tab over to the list of plugins and then choose > the plugin you used before, i would bet it's either the Nullsoft > waveout plugin or the direct sound one. But the idea here is to > change it back to whatever plugin you were using before. so once you > do that, tab to the close button and you can now go back to rockin > with Winamp! I hope this wasn't too long but i did want to write this > process out. This is especially cool because when you want to > convert a file again, all you'll need to do is switch to the > discwriter plugin, play your file and Winamp will convert it. then > all you have to do is switch back to your regular plugin and life's > good. 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