Hi all Just one thing I have found and also the reason why I do not use winamp.
Many download services like od2.com which is the one used by a South African company here, encrypt their files in copywrited wma format. I have never found a version of winamp that can play them. And therefore I prefer to use one player that can support the formats I need, i.e. wma lossless, mp3 and copywrighted wma files. Andre -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Hicks Sent: 04 June 2006 08:16 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player hi kevin, you probably have some good points here. i haven't really bothered to try and mess with media player for live albums in my posession. as for doing better with WMA, yeah. some of microsoft's products do actually work together. there are several bonuses for winamp, though. for one, it's about half the size of media player, even with the full version, which if you're on dial up like myself is a plus. also all the shoutcast stations that are available and free to broadcast to and listen to. i'm a pretty big fan of internet radio and i like shoutcast and icecast stuff. the winamp library i think does actually rip into WMA lossless, in the latest version 5.22. mp3 ripping is not available without purchasse, which is kind of sucky, but it does offer aac+ and if there were media players out there you can bet i'd have everything in that beautiful beautiful format. I didn't know that CDEX had released a new version that isn't free. can you send me the url so I can check it out? the free version also rips into aac+, mp3, ogg and a few lossless encoding technologies, so if i ever used them i'd do that. however i can't tell much of a difference between the original cd and my 192 kbps mp3 files, or even my 120 kbps ogg files with whatever compression i installed, can't remember the name of it at the moment. i suppose it all comes down to what you use the media player for, the music you rip and what you listen to. brandon Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
