I know that Winamp has its loyal following. I've never used it much. Also, I'm a novice at computer music. I've always just bought CD's and never used computer music. So perhaps I'm an idiot or just not very music-software literate, but I so far haven't been impressed with Winamp, or the FLAC plug-in. Just for one example, I've got a dual-Althlon MP 2000 system running XP Pro, with 1 gig RAM, 15,000 RPM 3.9 msec access time SCSI Ultra160 hard drives, and a 52X CD ROM drive that does 52X audio ripping. And yet, when I play CD's with Winamp 2.91, I get pauses and glitches, but not when I use Media Player. Something seems terribly wrong to me. I have heard that Winamp 3 isn't very popular among Winamp loyalists, and many Winamp users are sticking with Winamp 2. I've also heard that Nullsoft has decided to go back to the Winamp 2 codebase, but add Winamp 3's skinning engine to it and that will be called "Winamp 5". At least that is what I've heard on www.wincustomize.com. Okay, so where am I going. Well, for one, I've installed Winamp 2.91, the latest 2.x release, and the FLAC plug-in for it. When I go to try to play a .flac file with it, all it seems to do is just convert it to a .wav file, and then I have to play the .wav file. I thought the whole idea of FLAC was that it was good for real-time decoding. So I was expecting Winamp to play the .flac file directly without a specific conversion to .wav step. Am I missing or not understanding something? Does the Winamp 3 plugin work differently and play .flac files directly?
Thanks Josh. Yes, I did have the wave writer plug-in turned on. As I said, I'm a real dummy at Winamp. I'll have to play with it more. I haven't tried working on the possible Windows Media Player plug-in yet. I'll try to play with it some in the next week or so. I have no idea if it'll be within my expertise or not... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Coalson" <xflac@yahoo.com> To: "Paul Doland" <pauld@ml1.net>; <flac-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [Flac-users] Winamp 2/Winamp 3 and FLAC plug-ins> something is very wrong with your setup. all FLAC plugins should > play files directly. the only thing I can think of is that you > have the wave-writer plugin turned on. > > there could be one of several things wrong about your hardware or > winamp setup that can cause that and the glitches. your machine > is PLENTY fast enough to play FLAC in realtime. > > try searching or asking on www.hydrogenaudio.org, there are a > lot on winamp-knowledgable people there. > > Josh
--- Paul Doland <pauld@ml1.net> wrote: ...> Okay, so where am I going. Well, for one, I've installed Winamp > 2.91, the > latest 2.x release, and the FLAC plug-in for it. When I go to try to > play a > .flac file with it, all it seems to do is just convert it to a .wav > file, > and then I have to play the .wav file. I thought the whole idea of > FLAC was > that it was good for real-time decoding. So I was expecting Winamp > to play > the .flac file directly without a specific conversion to .wav step. > Am I > missing or not understanding something? Does the Winamp 3 plugin > work > differently and play .flac files directly?something is very wrong with your setup. all FLAC plugins should play files directly. the only thing I can think of is that you have the wave-writer plugin turned on. there could be one of several things wrong about your hardware or winamp setup that can cause that and the glitches. your machine is PLENTY fast enough to play FLAC in realtime. try searching or asking on www.hydrogenaudio.org, there are a lot on winamp-knowledgable people there. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com