Are most of you giving up on itunes? I use Helium Music Manager to play my media files for the last few years.
Grease wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON <=-
Are most of you giving up on itunes? I use Helium Music Manager to play my media files for the last few years.
I use mostly Spotify and Amazon.
MATTHEW MUNSON wrote to All <=-
Are most of you giving up on itunes? I use Helium Music Manager to play
my media files for the last few years.
Are most of you giving up on itunes? I use Helium Music Manager to
play my media files for the last few years.
I use mostly Spotify and Amazon.
I'm on Android. I use Winamp on my PC and BlackPlayer EX on my phone. I still need to find a decent CD ripping solution, that's the only reason I keep iTunes around.
Are most of you giving up on itunes? I use Helium Music Manager to play my media files for the last few years.
Are most of you giving up on itunes? I use Helium Music Manager to play my media files for the last few years.
I was never a fan of iTunes. I always used WinAMP, but for the past couple of years I've been using VLC because it seems to play pretty much anything. -+-
Are most of you giving up on itunes? I use Helium Music Manager to play my media files for the last few years.
Spotify will play local files.I use mostly Spotify and Amazon.
Streaming, I assume? Things like iTunes are more for playing your own local media files.
I use mostly Spotify and Amazon.Streaming, I assume? Things like iTunes are more for playing your own local media files.
Spotify will play local files.
I use PLEX for most of my local media streaming/playing. I have about 40TB of movies/TV that isn't available (for the most part) on streaming services.
I'm on Android. I use Winamp on my PC and BlackPlayer EX on my phone. I still need to find a decent CD ripping solution, that's the only reason I keep iTunes around.Try Helium Music Manager.
I was never a fan of iTunes. I always used WinAMP, but for the past couple of years I've been using VLC because it seems to play pretty much anything.
I always liked WinAmp, but I don't think it really had any good UI scaling. Over the years, as I upgraded my PC monitor, the WinAmp UI would get smaller as my screen resolution increased. When I upgraded to a 4K monitor last year, I finally stopped using WinAmp since its UI was just too small. I think WinAmp did have a UI zoom feature, but I still don't think it looked very good. I don't think its UI used the standard Windows UI features and thus didn't abide by the Windows UI zoom settings.
I always liked WinAmp, but I don't think it really had any good UI
scaling. Over the years, as I upgraded my PC monitor, the WinAmp UI
would get smaller as my screen resolution increased. When I upgraded
to a 4K monitor last year, I finally stopped using WinAmp since its
UI was just too small. I think WinAmp did have a UI zoom feature,
but I still don't think it looked very good. I don't think its UI
used the standard Windows UI features and thus didn't abide by the
Windows UI zoom settings.
Did you try changing the skin to something that was designed for higher res monitors. That was one of the things I really liked about WinAMP was it's skinability.
I'm on Android. I use Winamp on my PC and BlackPlayer EX on my phone. I
still need to find a decent CD ripping solution, that's the only reason I keep iTunes around.
I thought WinAMP did CD ripping okay... Windows Media Player is also decent at it.
Re: Re: Music players
By: Tracker1 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 27 2020 09:28 am
I thought WinAMP did CD ripping okay... Windows Media Player is also decent at it.
I had never used WinAmp or Windows Media Player for CD ripping.. Do they ri to MP3, or can you configure the format they rip to?
I thought WinAMP did CD ripping okay... Windows Media Player is also
decent at it.
I had never used WinAmp or Windows Media Player for CD ripping.. Do they
rip to MP3, or can you configure the format they rip to?
i ripped to .wav and then converted it with a command line mp3 encoder
IIRC, windamp was only mp3, and Windows Media Player is configurable...
i ripped to .wav and then converted it with a command line mp3 encoder
Don't you lose the metadata that way? If you use a ripper that adds the metadata for the CD info (artist, year, track, etc), it's imho a better experience.
On 3/27/2020 12:24 PM, Nightfox wrote:
I thought WinAMP did CD ripping okay... Windows Media Player is also decent at it.
I had never used WinAmp or Windows Media Player for CD ripping.. Do they rip to MP3, or can you configure the format they rip to?
IIRC, windamp was only mp3, and Windows Media Player is configurable... used it a couple weeks ago to rip some CDs with songs she couldn't find online. I had started trying to setup CD Audio Extractor, and the cddb successor wasn't working right... I then thought to just try WMP, and
On 3/28/2020 7:58 AM, MRO wrote:
i ripped to .wav and then converted it with a command line mp3 encoder
Don't you lose the metadata that way? If you use a ripper that adds the metadata for the CD info (artist, year, track, etc), it's imho a better experience.
Don't you lose the metadata that way? If you use a ripper that adds
the metadata for the CD info (artist, year, track, etc), it's imho a
better experience.
i didnt really care. i did artist - album - track# trackname for filename
i didnt really care. i did artist - album - track# trackname for filena
Most (if not all) music players these days don't care about the filename and will read the metadata. Most music player software that I've used don't necessarily know (or even care) what filename format you're using, so they h no good or consistent way to extract that information from the filename.
Re: Re: Music players
By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Sat Mar 28 2020 11:54 am
Tr> IIRC, windamp was only mp3, and Windows Media Player is configurable...
I had also used WinAmp to play FLAC files sometimes.
WAV doesn't have any metadata (other than just the sampling frequency, number of audio channels, etc.), so you aren't losing anything that way. You'd have to add the metadata to the MP3 after converting to MP3.
winamp supports a lot of formats and has a log of plugins.
Most (if not all) music players these days don't care about the
filename and will read the metadata. Most music player software that
I've used don't necessarily know (or even care) what filename format
you're using, so they h no good or consistent way to extract that
information from the filename.
they all go by the metadata and if that's missing they go by filename.
Exactly... if you're using something like winamp, or wmp to rip, then it will put the metadata into the mp3/flac/acc file(s) for you... if you
use .wav you don't get that.
These days I've started to use dBpoweramp, which can rip directly to both FLAC and MP3 at the same time, and of course adding the metadata.
Windows Media Player seems to support ripping directly to FLAC/ALAC, wma (lossy/lossless), wav and mp3 if you chose.
Doesn't seem to do both at once... with dbpoweramp, do you need a custom login to lookup the cd info?
On 3/28/2020 7:48 AM, Nightfox wrote:
Re: Re: Music players
By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Sat Mar 28 2020 11:54 am
Tr> IIRC, windamp was only mp3, and Windows Media Player is configurable
I had also used WinAmp to play FLAC files sometimes.
context: ripping ... but may have been wrong.. it's been a while.
On 3/28/2020 1:13 PM, MRO wrote:
winamp supports a lot of formats and has a log of plugins.
*sigh* the context was specifically ripping, I also said (iirc)
winamp supports a lot of formats and has a log of plugins.
*sigh* the context was specifically ripping, I also said (iirc)
*sigh*
the plugins allow you to rip, dumbass
On 3/29/2020 12:27 PM, MRO wrote:
*sigh* the context was specifically ripping, I also said (iirc)the plugins allow you to rip, dumbass
Do you see the (iirc) part, with regards to ripping, I thought that
winamp only supported mp3. There's no reason to be an asshole.
Do you see the (iirc) part, with regards to ripping, I thought that
winamp only supported mp3. There's no reason to be an asshole.
You must be new to Dove-Net.
Re: Re: Music players
By: Tracker1 to MRO on Mon Mar 30 2020 06:12 pm
On 3/29/2020 12:27 PM, MRO wrote:
*sigh* the context was specifically ripping, I also said (iirc)the plugins allow you to rip, dumbass
Do you see the (iirc) part, with regards to ripping, I thought that winamp only supported mp3. There's no reason to be an asshole.
You must be new to Dove-Net.
Re: Re: Music players
By: Android8675 to Tracker1 on Tue Mar 31 2020 08:09 am
Re: Re: Music players
By: Tracker1 to MRO on Mon Mar 30 2020 06:12 pm
On 3/29/2020 12:27 PM, MRO wrote:
*sigh* the context was specifically ripping, I also said (iirc)the plugins allow you to rip, dumbass
Do you see the (iirc) part, with regards to ripping, I thought that winamp only supported mp3. There's no reason to be an asshole.
You must be new to Dove-Net.
i've known tracker1 for 20 years
i've known tracker1 for 20 years
I'm very happy to see not much has changed in 20 years.
I do the Apple Music $25 a year to have my full collection in the cloud,
but my wife really enjoyed Amazon Music as well.
I do the Apple Music $25 a year to have my full collection in the cloud,
but my wife really enjoyed Amazon Music as well.
You must be new to Dove-Net.
i've known tracker1 for 20 years
MATT wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-
I do the Apple Music $25 a year to have my full collection in the cloud,
but my wife really enjoyed Amazon Music as well.
Hey I work for them, nice choice :)
squint
Which one?
OGG wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-
I do the Apple Music $25 a year to have my full collection in the cloud,
but my wife really enjoyed Amazon Music as well.
Hey I work for them, nice choice :)
squint
Which one?
Is Apple Music still $25/yr somewhere? I just checked on their website that it is normally $10/mo
Personally, I've sided with Spotify. They had a 99cents for three
months introductory offer. Going forward it is $10/mo.
It is very nice to be able just look up a tune that one is curious
about and discover other related material along the way.
We do Amazon Music for that...
Re: Re: Music players
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to OGG on Sun May 17 2020 03:34 am
We do Amazon Music for that...
Amazon Music is pretty great.
Amazon Music is pretty great.
It was better when they had their music match service active. :-(
They also used to make it so you could upload your own music. It was cool to upload originl music and play it. i.e. I could say, Alexa, play TLM's Super Song. And it would. It still works for me, but they've sent me numerous messages it won't be working at some point, and you can no longer add to it. I get it, because people could use them as storage for there torrent music collections, but man it was a cool feature.
At some point I just need to install Plex, I heard that works the same way basically.
Yes, if you put music on a Plex server, there's a Plex skill you can set up with Alexa to work with it. After installing the Plex skill, you need to configure the login credentials for yoru Plex account with it, and then you can say "Alexa, ask Plex to play ...."
Yall are some automation fiends. I'm happy with my good ol' ampache server.
The Lizard Master wrote to calcmandan <=-
Re: Re: Music players
By: calcmandan to Nightfox on Thu May 28 2020 05:15 pm
Yes, if you put music on a Plex server, there's a Plex skill you can set up with Alexa to work with it. After installing the Plex skill, you need to configure the login credentials for yoru Plex account with it, and then you can say "Alexa, ask Plex to play ...."
That sounds like the ticket! Thanks!
Yall are some automation fiends. I'm happy with my good ol' ampache server.
You must step into the age of the Jetsons. It's quite nice.
Rampage wrote to calcmandan <=-
the trick is that they "wrote" the above via voice dictation and their system reads the messages to them using text2speech ;) O:)
The Lizard Master wrote to calcmandan <=-
Re: Re: Music players
By: calcmandan to The Lizard Master on Fri May 29 2020 05:01 am
You must step into the age of the Jetsons. It's quite nice.
Step into the age of the Jetsons while you post on a bbs echo. Roger.
I said, Alexa, open my terminal program though.
Rampage wrote to calcmandan <=-
Re: Re: Music players
By: calcmandan to The Lizard Master on Fri May 29 2020 05:01:00
calcmandan>>> Yall are some automation fiends. I'm happy with my good
ol'
calcmandan>>> ampache server.
You must step into the age of the Jetsons. It's quite nice.
calcmandan> Step into the age of the Jetsons while you post on a bbs echo.
calcmandan> Roger.
the trick is that they "wrote" the above via voice dictation and their system reads the messages to them using text2speech ;) O:)
I used to work near the Academy of Art "college" in San Francisco, and I'd love seeing the students wear what I wore in high school in the 80s. Levis 501s, polo shirts with the collars turned up, Vuarnet ski glasses, top siders or penny loafers...
I'd expect to see Urban Outfitters retromod a walkman case with a MP3 player. They already did with a boom box.
I'd expect to see Urban Outfitters retromod a walkman case with a
MP3 player. They already did with a boom box.
I did this myself, when iPODs became popular... used my original walkman i bought from sears; and i THOUGHT i had the coolest loooking iPOD around.
Re: Re: Music players
By: Nightfox to paulie420 on Tue Jun 02 2020 03:23 pm
I'd expect to see Urban Outfitters retromod a walkman case with a
MP3 player. They already did with a boom box.
I did this myself, when iPODs became popular... used my original walkman i bought from sears; and i THOUGHT i had the coolest loookin iPOD around.
The Diamond Rio was the first MP3 player I remember seeing on the market, and they had one that I thought looked a bit like a walkman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_500
I owned one because my boss at the time thought it was cool and bought us al
Me and nightfox really on the same page lately.
---TLM
That sounds interesting, but why not go a couple of other paths?
- MP3 player that looks like a MiniDisc Player
- MP3 player that looks like an 8-track player
:D
:D
Ogg wrote to All <=-
Hello MRO!
** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 12:50, mro wrote to Lord Gareth:
That sounds interesting, but why not go a couple of other paths?
- MP3 player that looks like a MiniDisc Player
- MP3 player that looks like an 8-track player
:D
:D
record player with a strap on it and you carry it around.
Anyone here remember when certain cars had record players?
I think I was barely 5 yrs old (circa 1963), and an uncle of mine had a convertible with a record player. I think it only played 45s.
Ogg wrote to All <=-
Hello MRO!
** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 12:50, mro wrote to Lord Gareth:
That sounds interesting, but why not go a couple of other paths?
- MP3 player that looks like a MiniDisc Player
- MP3 player that looks like an 8-track player
:D
:D
record player with a strap on it and you carry it around.
Anyone here remember when certain cars had record players?
I think I was barely 5 yrs old (circa 1963), and an uncle of mine had a convertible with a record player. I think it only played 45s.
I used to joke about putting one in my car. Didn't think anyone actually di it.
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Re: Re: Music players
By: Dennisk to Ogg on Sun Jun 07 2020 10:43 am
Ogg wrote to All <=-
Hello MRO!
** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 12:50, mro wrote to Lord Gareth:
That sounds interesting, but why not go a couple of other paths?
- MP3 player that looks like a MiniDisc Player
- MP3 player that looks like an 8-track player
:D
:D
record player with a strap on it and you carry it around.
Anyone here remember when certain cars had record players?
I think I was barely 5 yrs old (circa 1963), and an uncle of mine ha convertible with a record player. I think it only played 45s.
I used to joke about putting one in my car. Didn't think anyone actually it.
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My cousins had a portable record player that played full sized LP's. It was close to the size of a full sized cassette recorder (6 inch by 10 inch) and you had to place it on a level surface because the turntable was the width f the player and the record would hang over on 3 sides. The side that didn't hang over was where the arm was mounted. It ran on either 4 or 6 D cell batteries.
Anyone here remember when certain cars had record players?
I think I was barely 5 yrs old (circa 1963), and an uncle of mine had a Og>> convertible with a record player. I think it only played 45s.
I used to joke about putting one in my car. Didn't think anyone actually
did it.
Ogg wrote to Dennisk <=-
Hello Dennisk!
** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 20:43, dennisk wrote to Ogg:
Anyone here remember when certain cars had record players?
I think I was barely 5 yrs old (circa 1963), and an uncle of mine had a
convertible with a record player. I think it only played 45s.
I used to joke about putting one in my car. Didn't think anyone actually did it.
Ah.. you're a young one then. LOL
I've seen a couple of YT videos of "young" people installing LP players
in their cars and thinking that is so unique and cool.
But if you keep looking, you will find plenty of references to record players in some of the cars in the 60's.
There is a vintage car show/gathering in my town once a week during the summer. I never thought of dropping by to see if anyone there still
had a working record player. But maybe now I will.
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