Converting your m4a files into gold-encrusted mp3 gems doesn't have to be difficult. Sweat needn't be broken. Tears needn't be shed. Blood needn't be spilled. Take a deep breath, put your head between your knees for a few seconds, and when you're ready, follow these easy steps to mp3-hood.
The first thing you'll need, though, is Winamp Pro, which you can find here. (Winamp Standard supports a lot of files, but for mp3's, you'll need to go Pro...) Got it? Cool. Now, let's talk....
Step 1:
Find the file you want to convert by going to your your Media Library tab, and click on "Audio" from your "Local Media". If you haven't already added audio files to your Winamp Media Player, you can go to File >> Add Media to Library. Alternatively, you could drag and drop the file from your Windows Explorer into the Winamp player.
The first thing you'll need, though, is Winamp Pro, which you can find here. (Winamp Standard supports a lot of files, but for mp3's, you'll need to go Pro...) Got it? Cool. Now, let's talk....
Step 1:
Find the file you want to convert by going to your your Media Library tab, and click on "Audio" from your "Local Media". If you haven't already added audio files to your Winamp Media Player, you can go to File >> Add Media to Library. Alternatively, you could drag and drop the file from your Windows Explorer into the Winamp player.
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Category: Developer Community, Category: Tutorials Posted by Amar Toor, Nov 5th 2009 9:00AM
Facebook is already the most popular online hangout for telling the world everything you're doing, everything you've ever done, and everything you have yet to do. With users constantly updating their status to tell the world of their most enthralling daily activities, it only makes sense that the world would desperately want to know what music you're listening to. And not just that staid, two-dimensional "Favorite Music" section. Oh, no. The world moves much too fast for profile updates. The human populations move in real time, and so should your music updates. Now, thanks to a plug-in called "Facebook Listening to v1.0," the world can finally follow your every browse through your online music library.
Basically, the way it works is you've first gotta add an application called "I am Listening To" to your Facebook page. Once you do that, this long page of instructions and features will pop up, but the most critical thing is the random Facebook User ID and "Secret Key" that they'll give you. You'll need this in order to activate the plug-in, which you can download here. What happens next, dear reader, is nothing short of magic. What the plug-in does, if you want it to, is update your Facebook status as you surf through your library, so all of your friends and family will know what you're listening to at any given moment. You can also choose to load your playlist library directly into your profile, and examine (read: rip apart) your friends'obviously inferior music tastes. Most spellbindingly, both your music status and your embedded playlist will be updated automatically-even if you're not logged in (*gasp!*).
All in all, it's a pretty cool application, for those brave enough to use it. The potential for embarrassment is pretty obvious (do you really want Aunt Rhoda knowing how many times you listen to Enya every day?). But then again, no less embarrassing than most of the stuff that happens in the Wild Wild West of Facebook. At least in this case, the upside of showing off your music taste and your infinite coolness far outweigh any possibly relationship or job-destroying revelations.
Download your Facebook Listening To v1.0 Plug-in here.
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Burning a CD from your Winamp media library is easy... and fun! Just follow these easy steps, and before you know it, you'll be burning CDs in no time!
First, thing you'll need to do is Download Winamp. Once you've installed and launched the Winamp Media Player, you'll be prompted to add any audio (and video files) that you may already have on your computer. If, for whatever reason, the dialog box doesn't appear you can always go to File >> Add Media to Library... and then browse to the folder where you store your media files.
Step 1:
After you've launched your Winamp Media Player and added audio files, insert a blank CD into your computer's drive.
Step 2:
Next, if your Media Library isn't on, click on the view option at the top of your Winamp main menu bar, and select "Media Library." (If you want to impress friends and neighbors, you could also just use the keyboard shortcut and click "Alt+L")
Click the "More" button to see all steps.
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Category: Developer Community, Category: Tutorials Posted by Tarik, Oct 23rd 2009 9:00AM
With Tour Tracker you get the latest tour dates and concert ticket information for your favorite artists. Find up-to-date information on tour schedules, concert announcements and buy concert tickets online.
It's even easier with the new Winamp Tour Tracker Online Service. Now you can get all this information without ever leaving your Winamp media player. Just add Tour Tracker and as you listen to songs or playlists in your local library, you'll see real-time updates for any artist in the Tour Tracker database.
Have Fun!
Get Started:
1) Click on the "Online Services" in the Media Library Tab
2) Search for "Tour Tracker"
3) Click on the "+ Add to Winamp" button to add the service to your Winamp Media Player
4) Once added, start playing any playlist or track, and select the Tour Tracker Online Service to view current tour dates & concert info.
5) If you want Tour Tracker to automatically update when a new track starts to play, then you need to select "Auto-Refresh" (in the upper right-hand corner).
It's even easier with the new Winamp Tour Tracker Online Service. Now you can get all this information without ever leaving your Winamp media player. Just add Tour Tracker and as you listen to songs or playlists in your local library, you'll see real-time updates for any artist in the Tour Tracker database.
Have Fun!
Get Started:
1) Click on the "Online Services" in the Media Library Tab
2) Search for "Tour Tracker"
3) Click on the "+ Add to Winamp" button to add the service to your Winamp Media Player
4) Once added, start playing any playlist or track, and select the Tour Tracker Online Service to view current tour dates & concert info.
5) If you want Tour Tracker to automatically update when a new track starts to play, then you need to select "Auto-Refresh" (in the upper right-hand corner).
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... By now I'm sure you've either used or at least heard of the Winamp Toolbar. If not, you should download the Winamp Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox and give it a try.
The toolbar is great because it allows you to control Winamp from right on top of your browser. But sometimes that's not enough. Although it's nice to have Winamp controls always available, the problem is that you're not always using your browser. Especially if you're at work. Wouldn't it be nice to keep your Winamp controls on top of your screen regardless of which application you're using? The good news is that you can... and it's actually pretty simple. All you have to do is set-up Winamp to be a docked toolbar.
Step 1:
Expand your Winamp Media Player to fit your full screen
Step 2:
Click on the Windowshade toggle (to put Winamp into the Windowshade mode).
Step 3:
Right Click in the gray area of the Windowshade (toolbar) and select Window Settings > Docked Toolbar and use the following settings:
- Deselect "Auto-Hide"
- Select "Always on Top"
- Select Location (Top or Bottom)
Step 4:
If you select the above settings, and open another software application (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)... you'll notice that the newly opened application will automatically re-size around your docked Winamp toolbar. Allowing it to always remain visible.
Note:
- To undo simply deselect "Always On Top", and select "Not docked".
The toolbar is great because it allows you to control Winamp from right on top of your browser. But sometimes that's not enough. Although it's nice to have Winamp controls always available, the problem is that you're not always using your browser. Especially if you're at work. Wouldn't it be nice to keep your Winamp controls on top of your screen regardless of which application you're using? The good news is that you can... and it's actually pretty simple. All you have to do is set-up Winamp to be a docked toolbar.
Step 1:
Expand your Winamp Media Player to fit your full screen
Step 2:
Click on the Windowshade toggle (to put Winamp into the Windowshade mode).
Step 3:
Right Click in the gray area of the Windowshade (toolbar) and select Window Settings > Docked Toolbar and use the following settings:
- Deselect "Auto-Hide"
- Select "Always on Top"
- Select Location (Top or Bottom)
Step 4:
If you select the above settings, and open another software application (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)... you'll notice that the newly opened application will automatically re-size around your docked Winamp toolbar. Allowing it to always remain visible.
Note:
- To undo simply deselect "Always On Top", and select "Not docked".
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Sick of manually adjusting volume between different tracks? If you've ever listened to a playlist or used the shuffle feature, you've definitely noticed that various albums and tracks playback at extreme levels... undoubtedly causing you to frantically adjust your volume.
To fix the problem Winamp supports Replay Gain (or ReplayGain), which is a "proposed standard to normalize the perceived loudness of computer audio formats" (check-out the Wikipedia article for more info). Not getting into the details, basically what happens when you use the Replay Gain feature is that Winamp will do an analysis on all selected tracks in an effort to automatically level the volume between those tracks. When you turn on Replay Gain, you'll have two options: track-gain or album-gain.
Track-gain is performed on all selected tracks so that they will be at equal volume on playback. Whereas with album-gain analysis, an additional value is measured to take into account the intended volume differences for tracks on the same album. When you calculate Replay Gain, you should ALWAYS select "Save as Album". This will save BOTH album gain and track gain. The only reason you'd ever want to do "Save Track Data" is if you had an incomplete album (such as only having one track from a particular album).
There are two important things to note before you calculate replay gain. The first is that once you've calculated the Replay Gain it adds metadata to the audio files WITHOUT actually altering the original audio data. Winamp writes the Replay Gain info to the file tags (for mp3, wma, ogg, flac, m4a, & aac files), so that Winamp (or other app/player which supports RG) can read it. The second thing to note is that Replay Gain tends to turn down the overall volume. Since a quieter overall music listening experience might throw people for a spin, we thought we'd mention it ahead of time. The idea is that the "target" loudness level was chosen so that certain music (such as classical music) didn't have to be cranked up to the point where the songs start to clip or distort.
How to apply RG to your music files:
1) Select the files you would like adjusted (DO NOT try to calculate your entire library at once)
2) Right click and choose Send To -> Calculate Replay Gain
3) Once the files are analyzed, choose "Save As Album".
- only choose "Save Track data" if you just have one (or a few) tracks from a particular album.
4) Once you've scanned your library, you'll still need to set your Preferences to turn on Replay Gain. Put a check-mark next to the Preferences to turn it on. (Ctrl+P) Playback -> Replay Gain tab -> Select "use Replay Gain". Under "Preferred source", you can freely toggle between the album & track playback options w/o rescanning. The only time you'll need to rescan is when you add new songs to your library.
- Select "Track" if you are going to listen to your library on shuffle or if listening to a playlist
- Select "Album" if you are going to listen to complete albums
Replay Gain Settings:
Amplification Mode: 'Apply Gain/Prevent Clipping' is default & recommended. It will level out the volume & prevent distortion.
Preferred Source: Choose between 'Track' (default) or 'Album' modes.
Disable if preferred source not available: Disables RG is e.g. 'Album' mode is selected but only 'Track' info is available.
Adjustment for files without RG: Pre-amp selection applied to all files without Replay Gain info (default value is -6.0 dB.) -6.0dB was chosen as an average across a broad music collection. If you listen to mostly newer rock music and pop music, you might find that -8.0dB or -9.0dB might be more typical of the average loudness adjustment.
Related Links:
Winamp Help
Winamp Forum Post - Replay Gain in Winamp?
ReplayGain.org
Replay Gain Proposed Standard on hydrogenaudio
Wikipedia Article on Replay Gain
To fix the problem Winamp supports Replay Gain (or ReplayGain), which is a "proposed standard to normalize the perceived loudness of computer audio formats" (check-out the Wikipedia article for more info). Not getting into the details, basically what happens when you use the Replay Gain feature is that Winamp will do an analysis on all selected tracks in an effort to automatically level the volume between those tracks. When you turn on Replay Gain, you'll have two options: track-gain or album-gain.
Track-gain is performed on all selected tracks so that they will be at equal volume on playback. Whereas with album-gain analysis, an additional value is measured to take into account the intended volume differences for tracks on the same album. When you calculate Replay Gain, you should ALWAYS select "Save as Album". This will save BOTH album gain and track gain. The only reason you'd ever want to do "Save Track Data" is if you had an incomplete album (such as only having one track from a particular album).
There are two important things to note before you calculate replay gain. The first is that once you've calculated the Replay Gain it adds metadata to the audio files WITHOUT actually altering the original audio data. Winamp writes the Replay Gain info to the file tags (for mp3, wma, ogg, flac, m4a, & aac files), so that Winamp (or other app/player which supports RG) can read it. The second thing to note is that Replay Gain tends to turn down the overall volume. Since a quieter overall music listening experience might throw people for a spin, we thought we'd mention it ahead of time. The idea is that the "target" loudness level was chosen so that certain music (such as classical music) didn't have to be cranked up to the point where the songs start to clip or distort.
How to apply RG to your music files:
1) Select the files you would like adjusted (DO NOT try to calculate your entire library at once)
2) Right click and choose Send To -> Calculate Replay Gain
3) Once the files are analyzed, choose "Save As Album".
- only choose "Save Track data" if you just have one (or a few) tracks from a particular album.
4) Once you've scanned your library, you'll still need to set your Preferences to turn on Replay Gain. Put a check-mark next to the Preferences to turn it on. (Ctrl+P) Playback -> Replay Gain tab -> Select "use Replay Gain". Under "Preferred source", you can freely toggle between the album & track playback options w/o rescanning. The only time you'll need to rescan is when you add new songs to your library.
- Select "Track" if you are going to listen to your library on shuffle or if listening to a playlist
- Select "Album" if you are going to listen to complete albums
Replay Gain Settings:
Related Links:
Winamp Help
Winamp Forum Post - Replay Gain in Winamp?
ReplayGain.org
Replay Gain Proposed Standard on hydrogenaudio
Wikipedia Article on Replay Gain
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Category: Developer Community, Category: Tutorials Posted by Tarik, Aug 5th 2009 11:15AM
Wanted to give the developer community a little love on the blog. Be sure to check out the two new articles on the Developer Network wiki. The Winamp Developer Network is a one-stop shop for all things related to Winamp development. With the goal of facilitating the creation of new skins, plug-ins, visualization presets and online services.
The two new articles are specific to Plug-in development. If you are a beginner and just starting to develop Winamp Plug-ins, take a look and let us know what you think. Leave a comment and tell us if there are any other articles or topics you'd like to see added to the wiki.
Basic Plug-in Guide - Tutorial
Beginner's Basic Plug-in Guide
The two new articles are specific to Plug-in development. If you are a beginner and just starting to develop Winamp Plug-ins, take a look and let us know what you think. Leave a comment and tell us if there are any other articles or topics you'd like to see added to the wiki.
Basic Plug-in Guide - Tutorial
Beginner's Basic Plug-in Guide
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... It can be really confusing when you have a lot of untitled songs or albums floating around in your media library. Especially if you have a large collection of MP3s or other media files. Having them cleaned up makes managing your music a lot easier... not to mention having clean data makes the Orgler a lot more useful when Charting your listening history.
Use the Winamp Auto-Tag feature to clean up your library:
1) In your media library or playlist select the files you want to update ("Auto-Tag") by either Shift+clicking to select all files in a certain range, or Ctrl+clicking to select multiple individual files.
NOTE: Since the Auto-Tag process is resource intensive you should not select all you files at once. Not to mention, it would be wise to not blindly Auto-Tag all of your files... in particular, those files that already have metadata. By doing it in stages you can ensure that you don't overwrite information that you already have in place.
2) Once you have all the files selected, then right-click on one of the files and select: Send to -> Auto-Tag
3) The "Winamp Auto Tagger" dialog box opens and starts to analyze your selection by accessing the Gracenote Media Database (this can take several seconds to several minutes depending upon the number of selected files).
4) Once completed you can scroll through each individual track to verify the data before applying the changes. There are check boxes next to each track listing allowing you to only apply changes to those selected items (note: all tracks are selected by default).
5) Once you've made your selections, click "Apply Changes".
6. Although the updates have taken place, you may not see it immediately. What you'll have to do is deselect the media library (or playlist) and select it again in order to refresh the screen. As you'll see below, the metadata has been updated (artist name, album name, track #, track title, genre, etc.)
Use the Winamp Auto-Tag feature to clean up your library:
1) In your media library or playlist select the files you want to update ("Auto-Tag") by either Shift+clicking to select all files in a certain range, or Ctrl+clicking to select multiple individual files.
NOTE: Since the Auto-Tag process is resource intensive you should not select all you files at once. Not to mention, it would be wise to not blindly Auto-Tag all of your files... in particular, those files that already have metadata. By doing it in stages you can ensure that you don't overwrite information that you already have in place.
2) Once you have all the files selected, then right-click on one of the files and select: Send to -> Auto-Tag
3) The "Winamp Auto Tagger" dialog box opens and starts to analyze your selection by accessing the Gracenote Media Database (this can take several seconds to several minutes depending upon the number of selected files).
4) Once completed you can scroll through each individual track to verify the data before applying the changes. There are check boxes next to each track listing allowing you to only apply changes to those selected items (note: all tracks are selected by default).
5) Once you've made your selections, click "Apply Changes".
6. Although the updates have taken place, you may not see it immediately. What you'll have to do is deselect the media library (or playlist) and select it again in order to refresh the screen. As you'll see below, the metadata has been updated (artist name, album name, track #, track title, genre, etc.)
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Category: Winamp Updates, Category: Tutorials Posted by Tarik, Jul 2nd 2009 12:30AM
Winamp 5.56 is now available... so you can Orgle to your heart's content!
New in this release is the Winamp OrglerTM which powers the Charts experience. Check it out...
What's a Winamp OrglerTM?
The Orgler lets you track, chart and share your Winamp listening history.
What does that really mean?
Each time you listen to a song through Winamp, while the Orgler is enabled, it sends the basic metadata (e.g. song name and artist name) associated with that file to Winamp. Currently the Orgler only supports local media playback, but not streaming playback (internet radio), however we are currently in planning for future enhancements. The Orgler is a community driven feature so the more you & your friends use it... and the more time it has to grow... the more robust it will become. We're pretty excited because with the size of the Winamp community worldwide, it has the potential to cover so many styles of music, in so many places.
Am I automatically Orgling?
Nope, you are not automatically Orgling. To start, you need to do two things. First, you need to download Winamp 5.56 which already includes the Orgler plug-in (technically, you can use 5.5x & download the Orgler plug-in separately but it's recommended that you just use the latest and greatest). Secondly, you need to log-in using your Winamp.com username & password. Don't have a Winamp.com username & password? No problem... you can register here.
Why should I Orgle?
You see, the Orgler is just the beginning. Once you've signed-in and started Orgling, we can feature the eclectic musical tastes of the Winamp community. The Charts, available in both the media player & on Winamp.com, allow you to stay on top of the latest trends by seeing which songs and artists are popular. View worldwide charts or filter down by a specific country or time period. You can even view your own listening history by selecting "My Charts" (media player feature only) to see what you've spent your time listening to today, this week or last month.
How do I add Charts to my Winamp Media Player?
To add Charts to Winamp, go to your media library tab and select "Online Services". Then browse through the "Featured Services" or you can use the online services search box. Once you've found "Winamp Charts" in the gallery, simply click the "+Add to Winamp" button.
Watch the below video for a quick demo & tour:
New in this release is the Winamp OrglerTM which powers the Charts experience. Check it out...
What's a Winamp OrglerTM?
The Orgler lets you track, chart and share your Winamp listening history.
What does that really mean?
Each time you listen to a song through Winamp, while the Orgler is enabled, it sends the basic metadata (e.g. song name and artist name) associated with that file to Winamp. Currently the Orgler only supports local media playback, but not streaming playback (internet radio), however we are currently in planning for future enhancements. The Orgler is a community driven feature so the more you & your friends use it... and the more time it has to grow... the more robust it will become. We're pretty excited because with the size of the Winamp community worldwide, it has the potential to cover so many styles of music, in so many places.
Am I automatically Orgling?
Nope, you are not automatically Orgling. To start, you need to do two things. First, you need to download Winamp 5.56 which already includes the Orgler plug-in (technically, you can use 5.5x & download the Orgler plug-in separately but it's recommended that you just use the latest and greatest). Secondly, you need to log-in using your Winamp.com username & password. Don't have a Winamp.com username & password? No problem... you can register here.
Why should I Orgle?
You see, the Orgler is just the beginning. Once you've signed-in and started Orgling, we can feature the eclectic musical tastes of the Winamp community. The Charts, available in both the media player & on Winamp.com, allow you to stay on top of the latest trends by seeing which songs and artists are popular. View worldwide charts or filter down by a specific country or time period. You can even view your own listening history by selecting "My Charts" (media player feature only) to see what you've spent your time listening to today, this week or last month.
How do I add Charts to my Winamp Media Player?
To add Charts to Winamp, go to your media library tab and select "Online Services". Then browse through the "Featured Services" or you can use the online services search box. Once you've found "Winamp Charts" in the gallery, simply click the "+Add to Winamp" button.
Watch the below video for a quick demo & tour:
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Category: Random Ramblings, Category: Tutorials Posted by Tarik, Jun 12th 2009 9:30AM
Need technical support? Having a problem with Winamp Pro? Or do you have an open question that you've been trying to resolve? If so, try one the following links for help to commonly asked Winamp questions and issues.
Winamp Pro Technical Support (Pro Users Only)
Winamp Community Forums Technical Support
- Winamp Player Help
- Winamp FAQ
- Winamp Features (comparison list, supported file types, & supported languages)
Winamp Pro Technical Support (Pro Users Only)
- Need Help? (order information, download information, tech support, etc.)
- Download Information
- I lost my key for the PRO player, can I get it back?
- I purchased Winamp Pro and would like to return it.
- Winamp Pro Contact
Winamp Community Forums Technical Support
- Winamp Technical Support
- Tech Support Greatest Hits
- Forum FAQ
- Winamp Forums: Main Page
- Winamp Discussions
- Search the Forums
If you are experiencing problems that cannot be resolved using any other method, then a clean install may do the trick. Follow these instructions to do a clean install of Winamp.
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Have you ever been playing one of your playlists & noticed that it skipped over a song? You'll only notice this happening if you're paying close attention, but what's happening is that Winamp can't find the file so it skips to the next song rather than stopping playback.
If you have a large music collection or even have music stored in different directories/drives, chances are that some of your audio files may not be available (e.g. external hard drive is not turned on, or you may have moved or deleted some songs).
The reason Winamp skips over the song is that there's nothing more annoying than when you've started a playlist and playback keeps getting interrupted to alert you about missing files. On the other hand, it would be pretty cool to know which songs Winamp can't find, so that you can better organize your media library.
Thankfully, there's a really easy way to highlight missing files in your playlist.
Steps:
1) Go to Options >> Preferences
2) Under "Jump To File", select "Missing Files"
3) Put a check mark next to "Highlight the background of missing playlist entries"
4) Once selected you can click on Options to customize the background colors.
If you have a large music collection or even have music stored in different directories/drives, chances are that some of your audio files may not be available (e.g. external hard drive is not turned on, or you may have moved or deleted some songs).
The reason Winamp skips over the song is that there's nothing more annoying than when you've started a playlist and playback keeps getting interrupted to alert you about missing files. On the other hand, it would be pretty cool to know which songs Winamp can't find, so that you can better organize your media library.
Thankfully, there's a really easy way to highlight missing files in your playlist.
Steps:
1) Go to Options >> Preferences
2) Under "Jump To File", select "Missing Files"
3) Put a check mark next to "Highlight the background of missing playlist entries"
4) Once selected you can click on Options to customize the background colors.
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Category: Winamp Updates, Category: Tutorials Posted by Vinay, Apr 6th 2009 8:55AM
An online service is a web page embedded inside the Winamp software and the best part is that it interacts with Winamp to create a great user experience. To develop one go to http://dev.winamp.com/online-service-developers.
Minimum requirement to use Online Services is one should have Winamp version 5.55 (or higher).
To Add Online service:
1. Click on the Online services link present under the Media Library
2. Browse the gallery. Choose from 'Featured Services', 'Most Popular' services or 'Recently Added' services and browse through different online services
3. Or, Choose categories of your choice by clicking on the Category drop-down and select a category. Then browse through all the online services available under that category.
4. Click on a particular online service and one can see the details about it
5. To Add to Winamp, Click on 'Add to Winamp' button and the service gets added
6. To start using the service, click on 'Go To' button
Check out cool Online Services like Shoutcast Radio, AOL Radio, OurStage Radio, Spinner, Songbook Lyrics etc. and have fun!
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... Winamp 5.55 has new exciting features. Now you can easily Import your Library and Playlists from iTunes and start using Winamp for your iPod syncing.
The most important highlight here is that you don't have to worry about losing the songs when you sync with different computers and you can just drag and drop files to your iPod from Windows explorer with ease!
In this post you will find details for
1. iTunes Library Import
2. iTunes Playlist Import
3. Syncing your iPod with Winamp
4. Adding songs to your iPod
5. Creating Playlist in iPod
1. iTunes Library Import:
Method 1:
This happens when you do a fresh installation of Winamp 5.55 (By fresh, we mean uninstall older version and install Winamp 5.55).
Launch Winamp. In the 'Add Media to Library' window, select 'Import iTunes Library'. If you have iTtunes Library in your system you can select the 'Import from iTunes' option. This imports all of your iTunes Library content into Winamp's Local Media.
Method 2. If you already have songs in 'Local Media' of Winamp Media Library or if you have opted for "Do not show me this again" in the above mentioned 'Add Media to Library' window, you won't be getting the 'Add Media to Library' window (mentioned in Method 1) to import the iTunes library. In these cases, you can import it by clicking on the 'Library' button at the bottom of the Media Library tab and selecting the option 'Import iTunes Database'.
2. iTunes Playlist Import:
Click on the Library button in Media Library. Select 'Import iTunes Playlist'. This imports all of your iTunes Playlist to Winamp Playlist tab.
3. Ipod Syncing:
Connect your iPod to the computer. Click on the iPod name under portables tab. Select 'Sync' button from the right-hand side bottom pane. It shows the Sync window, where you have information about how many songs will be transferred from Local media to iPod and vice versa. You have option to 'Leave them', 'Delete them' or 'Copy them' to Local media.
You can select the option to automatically sync on connection also.
In the Sync window you have 'More' button. When you click on this you get list of songs that will be transferred to device and another column showing list of songs that will be copied to Local Media Library. You can 'Remove' or 'Crop' the selected songs. Click OK button to Sync your iPod.
When the Sync is in Progress, click on the main Portables menu. You can see the status of the transfer in the window. You have buttons to 'Pause', 'Resume' and 'Remove' the selected items from the queue.
For configuring the syncing process select 'Preferences' from Options menu and click on the iPod name under 'Portables' tab in 'Preferences'. Here you have options to configure your playlist and podcast syncing. Click close button after selecting the required options.
4. Adding Songs to iPod:
Method 1: For adding songs manually to iPod, select the songs you want to transfer in the Local Media Library. Right click on the songs and select the iPod name.
Method 2: Select the song you want to transfer, drag and drop it to the iPod main tab or to any of the playlist under the iPod.
5. Creating Playlist:
For creating playlist in your iPod, right click on the iPod name, select New Playlist, and type a name in the text box and click OK. The newly created playlist will be added under the iPod. You can add songs to this using any of the method mentioned above.
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... In this Winamp tutorial we show you how to Rip a CD using the Winamp Media Player. The tutorial also covers encoding options (AAC, AAC+, FLAC, WMA, WAV, etc), how to manually edit CD Information, as well as how to set your CD Ripping Preferences.
For more information you can visit the Winamp help docs and do a search on "Rip" or "Ripping". There you'll find detailed information on "Ripping Music with Winamp", "Burning Tracks to CDs", "General Preferences", & "Saving CDs to your PC".
For more information you can visit the Winamp help docs and do a search on "Rip" or "Ripping". There you'll find detailed information on "Ripping Music with Winamp", "Burning Tracks to CDs", "General Preferences", & "Saving CDs to your PC".
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BOOKMARKDel.icio.usDiggitfacebook .... There are a bunch of different ways you can create and edit playlists in Winamp. This video shows you how to create a standard playlist, as well as how to use the Playlist Editor. It also teaches you how Winamp can dynamically generate a playlist for you.
Learn how to include streaming audio in your Winamp playlists. In other words, you don't even need to have the song in your media library, as long as you know the streaming url. Don't know what a streaming url is... don't worry, we'll show you how you can use the 'Now Playing' feature to add songs from across the web.
Finally, if you're a purist and don't like the idea of a playlist and would rather learn how to shuffle all songs in Winamp, we show you that as well!
Have Fun!
Finally, if you're a purist and don't like the idea of a playlist and would rather learn how to shuffle all songs in Winamp, we show you that as well!
Have Fun!
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