Hi, I have some good directions for converting ogg and other files with winamp. Some directions are pasted below.
Converting audio files using winamp DATE: 1. Open up Winamp from the programs menu or the desktop. 2. now find the file that you want to convert and open it up in Winamp, either by pressing enter on it or through the open file dialogue. 3. Press the letter v to stop the file from playing. 4. now Go to the preferences, by pressing control plus p of course. 5. go to the plugins section and then choose output in the tree view. 6. Tab over to the list of plugins, and focus on the one called the Nullsoft Discwriter plugin, your version number may vary but it all comes to the same. 7. You need to do some configuring for telling Winamp what file type to use when converting. By this I mean if you want to convert to mp3 etc. so tab to the configure button. 8. Fhere is a dialogue box with some buttons in it. the first one will determine where your output file, that is to say your converted file will be saved. you may hear something like, output file location c:\doccuments and settings...my music button. If you press that button, a dialogue will pop up and you can then determine where your file will be saved. 9. now that you've chosen where to save the converted file, you will be back in the dialogue, 10. Tab again and you reach a checkbox that says, output to directory containing source files, and by default, this is unchecked. This is so that you can have your converted file in exactly the same folder as the original file was. so check that if you want the file to go there, i would do that for simplicities sake. You can always move it later. 11. Tab and the Next checkbox you'll see says, display save as dialogue for every file. This is so that if you're converting an entire list of files, you'll be able to determine where each file goes. I would imagine that you would probably want them all to go in the same folder, but maybe not? so check that if you like, i normally leave it as is because usually I'm only converting one file. This is unchecked by default. 12. Tab again and you find a combo box that determines if there are numbers at the beginning of your outputted file name. the choices you have are, disabled, 1 digit, 2 digits, 3 digits and 4 digits. I can't imagine why anyone would actually want 4 digits, that is For example, this would convert the file and put a name starting with 01. If you are converting a very large number of files, more digits may be needed. I've nevered more than 25 at a time just to make sure everythings goes the way I want. ten but if you want to disable this, you can. 13. Tab again and there is a combo box that determines the title format, the one by default is % title %. this means you get the percent % which equals the first 2 numbers like I mentioned before, artist name, title and then the track name. so i would keep that as is. 14. Tabbing again will land you on output file type, and the choice is set to auto recommended. this is so you can choose different file formats. 15. Next down the line is a checkbox that says enable single mode. Leave this unchecked. 16 Tab again and this checkbox will determine wether or not Winamp actually remembers what file you convert to a lot, so if you convert to mp3 a lot, leave this checkbox checked so you can just perform the final few steps. 17. Tab once again and you'll land on a button that determines what file you can actually convert your file to. for mine in particular, this button says, MPEG layer 3 192KBPS, 44.1 K Hertz, stereo that's usually what i convert to, but if you want something different, you can press this button and you can change the file type, bitrate and sampling rate of your file. Note that if you don't have the radium codec installed, you won't be able to convert to anything higher than 56k, 22.50 k hertz stereo. I believe the lame encoder will fix this too, and the lame encoder should be very easy to find if you do a little hunting around. 18. Now you are going to do the conversion. Tab to okay and press enter. You are put back into the preferences. 19. Tab to close and press enter. 20.. . Press the letter x which will play your file. However, you don't hear any sound. This is because the plugin works very quickly. If you want to know the status of your conversion, press the hotkey which reads your title bar, insert t for JAWS and control shift t for Window-eyes. You will know your file is converted when you hear the name of your file, followed by Winamp stopped. While the file conversion happens, you may notice that software speech is slower to respond, and sometimes it just doesn't respond at all. But just remember, this plugin works pretty quick. 21. If you followed all the steps above, congratulations, you just converted your first file with Winamp. Subsequent conversions won't be such a long process, especially if you have the checkbox to remember your file type preferences. 22. Before you listen to your newly created file, you have to switch your output plugin back to the one you ordinarily use. This is because the hotkey for starting a conversion is x as you noticed above. This is also the play hotkey. command If you attempt to listen to another file, you'll just be creating more files and you'll have a lot of stuff on your hard drive you don't want. So, move down to step 21 to change things back. 23. Open the preferences again by pressing control plus the letter p. 24. Tab over to the list of plugins and then choose the plugin you used before. This is done by arrowing down to the plugin and leaving this choice highlighted. It was probably the Nullsoft waveout plugin or the direct sound one. But the idea here is to change it back to whatever plugin you were using before. 25. Once you have made the change by highlighting the plugin you used before, tab to the close button and you can now go back to enjoying your hard work with Winamp! 26. When you want to convert a file again, all you'll need to do is switch to the discwriter plugin, play your file and Winamp will convert it. then all you have to do is switch back to your regular plugin and life's good. 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