Hi sam: I always use the Stand-alone Oddcast broadcasting thing... Who the hell uses spacial audio anything anymore? That officially died here at TBRN almost a year ago unless you're Venison, and the stand-alone version of sam encoders sucks even more than the Winamp plugin does, plus they use ancient and generally very old versions of the Ogg encoder, which can be changed out for a nicer one. However, due to other things, I don't bother. By the way, I totally don't miss having my being able to broadcast depending on a Winamp DSP stack.
Yes, you can get Title Streaming to work with Oddcast stand-alone and Foobar if you really want to, by using the Oddcast grab from winamp window stuff. It will work with any app. You could make it pick up the title bar from your customized refrigerator controller application and have it report, for all the world to see, the internal temperature of your refrigerator as your song title, should you so choose to do so, so long as the information you want is shown in the title bar of any given window class. The stand-alone Oddcast has options for trunkating before and after text so that it doesn't display the entire window title, such as the program running and such. However, I could never quite get the Foobar playlist to work quite as well as the Winamp one, nor could I get a decent cross-fading solution. IN fact, I was never able to get anything other than a straight cross-fader with no intelligent dropping or rising when it was supposed to other than simply cross-fading only, no matter what I did. With older versions of Foobar2000 0.83 and things like it, where this was possible, I tried both a crossfading DSP and simultaneously using a modified cross-fading output plugin, which really tried to work but couldn't quite get it right, even after hours of configuring things. With the new standard 0.9.x and higher, it was even worse. To make it just that much more annoying, 0.9.x, which has far less plugin support (although it does, unlike older versions, properly supports AAC+ streams), is much easier for changing all the hotkeys around. I don't particularly like the Foobar defaults, and with the old one, you have to click on an invisible bitmap or something to change hotkeys. Also, I couldn't find a reliable way to find the remaining time on the currently playing track, or get the runtime of a track in the playlist before playing it, but this could purely be born of ignorance. I did, however, find it very cool that you could have multiple playlists open in different windows. If I could get all these things fixed and get a decent cross-fader going, you bet I would drop the use of Winamp for mainstream everything. I've been annoyed at it for so long, but so far have not quite found anything that does everything I want, in quite the way I want it. Let me say that I love the concept of their DSP stacking, and it comes with a lot more useful stuff by default without being bloated about it, but the crossfading really, really annoys me! So! much!!! But, I'm willing to give it another go if I could only be told how to make the crossfader not suck, even if I have to forego track time remaining and a couple of other useful features that I've been used to for so long with Winamp. -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(336)698-4417 Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aim: noaptiva Did you miss a message? Well, don't. http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.