WinAMP 5.1 (Surround Edition)
Posted by: [NT] on: 09/01/2005 09:42 PM [ Print | 12 comment(s) ] · 3965 views
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ODi Unregistered |
#62237 Posted on: 09/01/2005 10:52 PM
"The MusicMagic Mixer is a unique music library manager which can automatically determine the key acoustical attributes in digital music." I'm intrigued though very doubtful that it'll actually work well. Anyone give this a go? As a example, can it seperate Industrial from Ambient music? |
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RedFalcon Unregistered |
#62240 Posted on: 09/01/2005 11:42 PM
Winamp 5.1 Surround Edition ? I've got a better name : Winamp 5.1 Crappy Edition - what the hell is AAC? Another 'sometimes' used file format? Why 'Surround Edition' doesn't read POPULAR surround sound formats like for eg. AC3 files ? You have to use plug-in. Ok . But all who listened to AC3 or DTS know that they are the real surround audio formats. Foobar2000 beats WinAMP. I've just installed 5.1 cause I was corious of this "Surround Edition". Guess that version also has meaning : "5.1"... |
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Valagard Unregistered |
#62242 Posted on: 09/02/2005 01:59 AM
Completely shitty product. I can't even get the damn thing to run any movies. At least 5.0 ran movies. Why is it media player classic is the best player out there, and its older then sin? |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3001 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#62243 Posted on: 09/02/2005 08:35 AM
you can play ac3 with a plugin very easily 2. aac is a very good format and beats MP3 a hundred times it has very good surround support and other nice features I am very happy about the aac support btw AAC is a pure audi codec without ID tags and stuff what you need is MP4 or m4a (mp4 audio) as a container for AAC stream to get the full advantages of AAC |
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sunrise3500 Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: 2003-06-13 |
#62244 Posted on: 09/02/2005 08:39 AM
They only called it "Surround Edition" because the version number is 5.1.. what the hell is AAC? Go to tuner2.com and have a listen to a 40kbps stereo aacPlus stream.... impressed yet? ... it's a newish format, yes it's not used often because it's NEW and too many people only know of MP3 and aren't aware of superior formats existing popular surround sound formats like ac3? ... ac3 is NOT suitable for music, DTS is, but I'd assume there's no out of the box support for DTS because of licensing issues - hey winamp is available to you, for *FREE*... and they're not the only surround audio formats - DVDA, vorbis also supports 5.1 (which IS supported by winamp), etc... |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3001 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#62245 Posted on: 09/02/2005 09:58 AM
sunrise3500 is completely true a 96kbit AAC stream can beat a 160 kbit MP3 but is much smaller or you generatea 192kbit AAC stream and do have superiour audio quality and indeed AC3 is quite popular but DTS is much better anyway DTS and AC3 are high bit rate audio streams which are not comperable to MP3 / MP4 since their size is much much bigger also the problem is that DTS is highly secured by stupid licensing the VLC guys had to remove DTS support because of this and you won't find any applications that support DTS due to that... really bad but one good thing is that the Audigy 2 ZS and up has DTS and AC3 decoder integrated so you can use SPDIF to let the card decode the sound and btw you should ALWAYS do this !!! the sound is much much better when decoded by the audigy |
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RedFalcon Unregistered |
#62246 Posted on: 09/02/2005 10:46 AM
Yeach plugin. But it's not in standard so why that name? I think what product called "Surround Edition" should play almost every multichannel audio without needing to install aditional things. Foobar2000 plays almost everything also using plugin's but it's not called "Foobar2000 Surround Edition". Still I think, what this name is misleading. |
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PrEzEs Unregistered |
#62249 Posted on: 09/02/2005 02:03 PM
The AAC Surround sound plugin is unstable as HELL... They need to fix it... When playing two demo songs (LLAMA's ASS And Africa Bombata) the "forward" button is pressed (to skip to another track) - BAM! Winamp crashes... When playing normal files (mp3's , OGG etc.) it's stable. |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3001 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#62250 Posted on: 09/02/2005 02:15 PM
never got such an error ... try a fresh install |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3001 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#62251 Posted on: 09/02/2005 02:29 PM
you are right ... I wish AC3 support by default, too but there are hunderds of different formats out there ... and you have to decide what does make sense and what not ... winamp is a music player and there is nearly no music in AC3 at all its NEARLY only used in movies .. so how much sense does it do to include it ... not very much ... so the dev must have serious reason to not include this format and again ... since all playback support is done via plugins it is very easy to gut the one you want ... and if foobar is so good why do you even read this news ? also there was aac+ support in winamp before 5.1 the version number is just cool ... thats just a cool joke ... and as you might have noticed the most important part is the 5.1 RECORDING !!! find a software that is able to record in 5.1 its very very hard |
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crownrai Unregistered |
#62254 Posted on: 09/02/2005 06:24 PM
Media Player classic is NOT the player that came with Win95. It is a totally separate product that happens to use a very simple interface modeled after the Win95 version of Media Player. And last update was March 20, 2005. |
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Valagard Unregistered |
#62264 Posted on: 09/03/2005 07:20 PM
This refuses to run ANY of my movies like Constantine, or Brothers Grimm. I can't even run little movies like anime episodes, or my talking dogs movie. Back to Media Player classic >.< |
