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Xaquin
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I wasn't sure if I should post in H/A or here, but I figured they were tech related so here would be best.
1: Can anyone reccommend me a good music player that isn't itunes, realplayer, or winamp/win media player?
Does such a thing exist? I'm running XP.
2: I think I asked this once before, but it's been so long I don't remember. If I did, I apologize. I'm looking to convery all of my .wma files to .mp3. Is there a good converter where I can just queue up all my .wmas and let it run overnight?
3: I have nero7 and for some reason (lately) when burning CDs (either data or audio) it has been randomly renaming tracks. Can anyone think of a reason it may be doing this, or alternatly, is there another program out there that I can burn stuff with that will not mess up?
1: Can anyone reccommend me a good music player that isn't itunes, realplayer, or winamp/win media player?
Does such a thing exist? I'm running XP.
2: I think I asked this once before, but it's been so long I don't remember. If I did, I apologize. I'm looking to convery all of my .wma files to .mp3. Is there a good converter where I can just queue up all my .wmas and let it run overnight?
3: I have nero7 and for some reason (lately) when burning CDs (either data or audio) it has been randomly renaming tracks. Can anyone think of a reason it may be doing this, or alternatly, is there another program out there that I can burn stuff with that will not mess up?
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for the media player, I only really use it for music. I mean I have nero and wmp which both seem to work fine for video (I don't watch much on the computer). I just really don't like either for music.
thanks
dbPowerAmp is a great mass-converter, though you'll need to get the registered version to output to MP3, since the awful MP3 patent keeps you from distributing a free MP3 encoder.
As for CD burners, two good free ones I hear are ImgBurn and CD Burner XP. I've used ImgBurn and it works. CD Burner XP's interface looks a little bit friendlier, but I have yet to try it.
2: BonkEnc will do the job perfectly, but you'll need the WMA input plugin from Winamp.
3: To hell with Nero. CDBurnerXP FTW!
Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
- Terry Pratchett
quick question about foobar.
How do you get the "the" in band names not to register?
I see on the forums that "$swapprefix(X)" is the command to do it, but I have no idea where to put this little bit of text.
also, my keyboard has volume control/start/stop/skip tracks buttons on it that only work when I'm actually tabbed into the program. Anyway to fix it so those buttons work when I'm in another program?
YES! That is a beast for huge collections. In fact if your collection is very large at all it is almost a necessity. It is really nice if you are as obsessive compulsive as I am and EVERY music file you have must have the album, proper artist name, title and Album art. If will sniff all that stuff off of Amazon and tag it directly to the ID3 tag if you like. As far as getting it to work with a music player and are not worried about videos it is very nice.
I liked it so much I actually paid for it.
SongBird will be very cool when it is finished!
also, CDBurnerXP works great
I haven't had a chance to use any of the format switchers, but I'll probably get on that this weekend
thanks everyone!
:^: good music there.
I like KMPlayer but it doesn't sound like it suits your needs for album management and what-not.
Also, check out dbpoweramp converter. it is free, optimized for multi-core processors, and is fucking great. It is great for converting huge batches of music while you sleep.
Once you download it, be sure to download new codecs. It will take you to a page where you can install more. Musepack, Ogg, FLAC, wma, Apple Lossless, etc, etc ...it has them all, and you can adjust the quality settings to your liking.
Honestly, my quad core fucking eats music for breakfast and asks for seconds with this thing.
Yeah what's happening is some other program like WMP is making a hidden system file called Folder.jpg in some folder with music in it. Mediamonkey will first look for embedded album art but if it can't find it it will look for a Folder.jpg in the same directory. I have not found out how to get MediaMonkey to ignore these so I generally try to delete them and avoid running WMP. There must be a better solution though.