Re: Winamp 5.54.1 Pro Full DFX Full Download
Germana Layng
I figured out that if i rate a song in winamp (put them stars) , and then MOVE the song to another path / folder, the rating simply disappears. So, where (or how) does winamp save the ratings for the songs?
Its disappointing having to re-rate a lot of songs because i moved them (e.g. simply because i backed them up and now they are not in the original path), so, is there a way to keep the ratings of the songs when moving / copying them ?
As best as I have been able to figure out from using Process Monitor, the ratings are stored in the Winamp Media Library database, which seems to refer to songs by path. ID3v2 has a POPM tag (see section 4.18), but support does not appear to be widespread. The media library database, on Windows 7 at least, lives in your profile's AppData\Roaming\Winamp\Plugins directory.
One solution is to use Winamp plugins to synchronize the POPM tag on the MP3 file with the rating in the Media Library. This website suggests using the ActiveWinamp plugin, which allows for scripting of Winamp, in conjunction with an ID3 library such as ID3lib to do bidirectional syncing of ratings to and from the POPM tag. This sounds useful if you frequently change file paths or if you want this to work on multiple computers. As an additional advantage, you could share the ratings with other media player products that support either the POPM tag or similar scripting solutions.
Another solution is to use plugins that allow for editing of the media library data. This website suggests using the ml-import-export plugin to export the library data, updating the paths in a text editor (assuming that this is easy), and then re-importing it. This seems fairly simple, but is more of a one-off solution and requires some work on your part.
There's no software in Linux like the current Winamp. If you want something almost similar, try Audacious, BUT the skined interface ONLY supports winamp 2.x skins. I came from a Winamp environment so I can say this, forget about skins and use the default GTK interface and you'll like it, I know I did :)
Since I don't need all the bells and whistles (multi-album, fuzzy sort and search, psychic guessing my mood by the way I'm typing...), just plain old fashioned playlists and "open directory" play (I already have my music organized in my HD...), the QMMP it's all I need: plays all the filetypes I have, can play streams, looks for music lyrics and has the same winAMP appearance key bindings. :)I've tried Audacious, Tomahawk (perhaps not all the time needed to get used to it), and others... And I uninstalled them all: they do much more than I need, so I kept the simplest (still looking for a text-based one! :D). But, for people who needs a lot more, they fill their needs. :)
There is Rhythmbox or VLC.Rythmbox can also be used to sort your music as winamp does.VLC media player,It can also transcode and convert media files, and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6.but doesnt have a good sort function like rythmbox which can sort music like winamp does.
Try Tomahawk. It's a next generation music player. You can call it social music player. It has got great interface. It's feature rich. You will make it your default music player after testing it. It's my challenge. Tomahawk website
WACUP (which can be pronounced as wakeup or wac-up or however you prefer it in your native tongue) is my vision of what a media player should be whilst still being compatible with the plug-ins for some of the most popular media players that you are used to. My plan is to include bug fixes, updates of existing features & most importantly new features with the goal to eventually become its own highly compatible media player.
WACUP is heavily based around a plug-in system making it simple to tailor you WACUP install to be what you want it to be. When its finally out of being a preview build an SDK will eventually be offered so new plug-ins can then be made to add additional features.
WACUP is still under development with a functioning preview build that can be downloaded here. As this is pre-release software there can be issues which can be reported in the preview discussion forum. We recommend installing this WACUP Preview build into it's own separate directory from your existing software install until it is feature complete.
As an independent project & due to the amount of time & effort which is involved, I am accepting donations (and other means of support) to help cover my living costs whilst I'm working on getting this developed & released. As at this time, this is a full-time project for me whilst I see where the future will take me & this project.
It is however not being done as an open source project & there are other options out there if that's something you need your software to be. It does rely on open source libraries & a number of modified plug-ins for which their changes are being provided to comply with their code licensing requirements.
Ultimately I don't want to spend the time to run a properly done open source project when there's no guarantee of any assistance vs the overhead involved & my time management isn't great so spending more time on project management isn't imho a good use of my time.
I also hold to the view that source code without at least 1 developer is pointless & implies a dead / abandoned project. I do appreciate that it does allow for taking things on if it's then entered into such a state without any developer(s) attached as I've done with some of the plug-ins which has benefited WACUP. So whilst I'm in a position to keep making WACUP I don't intend on open sourcing all of it & view doing that as the end of my time developing it.
Note: Beta builds are intentionally not made publicly available to download & that's the purpose of providing a preview build which will often be an older beta build that is ok for a wider audience to use & where it's issues are known about unlike a new beta build which can be super buggy at times!
The intention of becoming a WACUP beta tester is to help ensure WACUP is ready for a wider audience as part of the preview & eventual non-preview releases. As such being accepted as a beta tester is not guaranteed due to being a single developer & needing to manage the size of the group so it's not too much.
Beta testing also means that you're going to be experiencing broken builds & other annoyances so only if you're ok with such things should you even consider making the request to be a beta tester. If this is just a case of FOMO or thinking it's something magical then being a WACUP beta tester is not for you.
Please Note: Requests to be a beta tester are not guaranteed to be accepted & not following instructions will very likely cause the request to be dismissed. If you can't follow instructions beforehand then how can you be expected to do so if given access & when being asked for information &/or to follow additional steps to resolve issues - it's all to help me & I've had too many waste my time already so I will be keeping things limited & is why the Preview build exists.
Additionally there is a development changelog that is being updated when features / fixes are completed & is provided as a means to see what is going to present in the next (or rather first) non-beta release.
This is a sister site of winampplugins.co.uk (previously nunzioweb.com/daz / daz.ne1.net) which albeit a bit broken & needing some updating shows off a lot of the plug-ins that I created & worked on over the years going all the way back to 2003.
I have over 21 years experience making Winamp plug-ins as well as having worked on Winamp natively on / off since 2007 until the last AOL release. I'm now hoping to do some of the things I used to do for Winamp to try to get back the feeling of fun from getting new build updates that's sadly missing from a lot of software nowadays (aka coding without the corporate BS). I also worked on SHOUTcast from late 2010 until mid-September 2015.
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I have been reading post and seen that it was removed and then re-implemented, somehow I still haven't found out how to scale/resize audacious using winamp skins, it's quite small for me, and I want it to be a little bit bigger, thanks.
I have often wondered what is the slowest 486 CPU which will play full scale mp3s in Windows without skipping using Winamp. I am using the Windows NT Taskmanager in Windows NT 4.0 to monitor CPU load. I have SP6a, the 6a SRP, and all post-SRP updates installed on my 486. I am using a DTK PKM-0033S motherboard with 1024 KB cache, 128 MB memory, and a SCSI HDD. Sound card is an AWE64Gold ISA.
i also believe that winplay3 does no good compared to winamp, except for the lack of directsound support(thats the same as winamp with waveout). but i am not sure if it would be perform better on 486 rigs.
directsound won't do any good unless you use a pci soundcard with hardware audio acceleration.
i always wanted to try playing mp3 with pci soundcard on a 486 rig, but its still on the long way being put together, hopefully can be done in 2-3 months. would you give it a try?
Could you use a Monster Sound MX400 on a 486? would the drivers load?
That card boosted about MP3 Acceleration, I dunno if was anything but market hype, but its in the Diamond wiki here.
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guess quake is not very good at making use of directsound, compared to more modern winamp.
so maybe you can give it another try, and try some other pci soundcards like ymf724 and ess. i also want to try that later, but it can take a few more months for me to finish collecting 486 parts that i need.