Great job, Dan, you really did that up right! Curtis Delzer
At 09:09 PM 8/7/2008, you wrote: >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. > > > > > >Jonathan Mosen List Founder >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
