I haven't upgraded winamp since I had Malcolm, the old AMD Athlon XP 3000+
which died in december. My winamp on all three of my machines is a
customised 5.3 and loads even on the 750 mhz server box in under 5 seconds.
It's fast and it's stable and still works.
I stole some plugins from other places and my wave files do work in the open
dialog for whatever reason, so I'm happy, but yes, the general concensus
does seem to be, and I do personally agree, winamp after about version 5
point whatever is a pile. Probably earlier than 5.3 but mine works for me,
so I stopped there.
On Friday, October 12, 2007 5:52 AM,
Patrick Perdue happened to mention in passing:
On 10/12/2007, 12:17:39 AM EDT, John left a message in a bottle, stating:
This is why I never upgraded past 5.08. Once I heard of those wav
issues I was pretty much turned off to the later versions of Winamp.
Semi-long post ahead!
There are workarounds for all this. If you want wav file type to show up
in the open dialogue of the main window and playlist for newer versions
of winamp (something that should not be necessary in the first place),
here are two possible methods of making this happen:
1. Go to options, plugins, input. Select "Nullsoft Waveform Decoder
vX.X", and press "configure".
Here, you will find a list of file types to associate with the wav input
plugin, as well as other options pertaining to dithering, bit
depth/sample rate conversion, and such. Take care to make sure that only
the following extensions are selected in this list:
wav, voc, au, snd, aif, aiff
Selecting a combination that I haven't determined after this point
usually breaks it, and I have no idea why. It probably won't matter so
much as these are generally quite obscure file types, and if you really
need to play them that badly, then you are strange.
2. If the first method doesn't work, try this one:
Open winamp.ini found in either your winamp main directory or in
.x:\documents and settings\<user>application data\winamp if you were
boring and configured it that way. Look for a line starting with
"extlist". You will see a list of all registered, but not necessarily
all associated extensions, not necessarily
in order. Here is mine as an example, although yours will surely differ,
but this is known to work for me with newer versions of winamp:
extlist=AC3:VOB:CDA:MPG:MPEG:M2V:AVI:ASF:WMV:mod:mdz:nst:stm:stz:s3m:s3z:it:itz:xm:xmz:mtm:ult:669:far:amf:okt:ptm:MP3:MP2:MP1:m3u:pls:ogg:mid:au:aif:aiff:ra:ram:wav
Let me again state how stupid this is, and show my general annoyance that
this is necessary at all in some cases.
As with many things, I am generally annoyed. 'What this time?' Well, I
am generally annoyed at anything past about Winamp 5.08 or so for
various reasons,
therefore, I am using a slimmed-down hybrid of winamps with version 2.80
at it's core, using some old and new plugins. It's very stable. I've
been running FX Radio continuously now on three copies of these Winamp
2.80/5.x/other hybrids now for 51 days (up to 65 so far) without a
single crash or anything bad happening. It only died after 65 days due
to prolonged power failure thanks to a storm in August.
Mind you, for broadcasting, I am using a newer one, version 5.2 to be
exact, just because it has
that cool global hotkeys thingy. I did try taking the global hotkey
plugin and sticking it in an older version of winamp, but they were too
clever for that, and only allowed it to work with versions 5.0 and up.
I find that older versions of Winamp are far more snappy and generally
responsive about things, and am still looking for Winamp alternatives.
The best option right now is probably Foobar2000, but there are plenty
of things that annoy me about this one, which I don't think I'll bother
getting into at the moment.
Tip: If you don't use it, uninstall or disable the Winamp library. It
will make loading time much faster.
By default, the Winamp library hangs out in the background and looks at
all the music,
streams, etc. that you've played, and keeps a nice index of them. So,
the more media you play, the bigger the database gets, and the longer it
takes to launch Winamp, thus, allowing it to get fat and giving it the
opportunity to apologize for it later... unless you either uninstall the
Winamp library, or configure it not to cache all that stuff behind you.
God, I hope all this crap has been informative and/or useful to at least
someone, as all this info has been obtained purely from experience and
nothing else.
Have a good slushy day.
-- --
Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA)
KE4DYI
Greensboro, NC
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