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Music Production => Players => PC Players => Topic started by: TaoPhoenix on January 19, 2009, 03:40:36

Title: VLC Player
Post by: TaoPhoenix on January 19, 2009, 03:40:36

I went looking for players that could export out to Mp3 so I can play the tracktunes on my various mp3 players. Just to get going, I stumbled onto VLC player.

However, that interface for conversion is clunky at best, and it doesn't skin smoothly on my machine either.

I already use DeliPlayer for routine playing. Anyone have favorite utilities for power conversion of tracks into Mp3?

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: Koli on January 19, 2009, 08:41:57

XMPlay (http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html) can export to WAV or an MP3/Ogg Vorbis encoder :)

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: Saga Musix on January 19, 2009, 13:09:17

XMPlay. :)

Title: Re: Exporting to Mp3
Post by: TaoPhoenix on January 22, 2009, 00:54:45

I think I got it this time. I remember though why I didn't like XMplayer last time I tried a couple years ago.

There seems to be a weird effect where if the resolution is set to 24 bit it comes out all scratchy. Setting it back to 16 bit seems to be fine. I also didn't know to look for new skins either.

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: Saga Musix on January 22, 2009, 01:03:35

XMPlay. Not XMPlayer. It's XMPlay. :P

I wonder if you're using waveout in 24bit resolution or directx, or maybe asio? you can post the problem about the 24bit resolution (which is IMHO unnecessary for playing audio anyway, it will be upsampled by either the soundcard or the application) in the xmplay forums and they will most likely be fixed.

Title: Re: XMPLAY
Post by: TaoPhoenix on January 22, 2009, 02:03:03

Heh, I walked into that famous spelling typo. It's 'cause I used DeliPlay*ER* for too long.

But the good news is that I think XM' has unseated it. Deli was solid enough, but it doesn't export (easily, if at all) to Mp3, and that's my killer process lately.

Also, It's nice to uprade the skin. Deli had a passable black one, but I missed the old WinAmp type skins. Acidian Fire - flare is my new favorite.

In all, a nice start to 2009!

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: Constance on April 02, 2009, 20:52:35

Well if you still have winamp too, you may use the "Nullsoft Disk Writer" output plug-in to get a .wav file, and then convert it to mp3 (or .ogg or pretty much anything else) with whichever converter you like. That's not a direct conversion method, but still works fine.

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: Saga Musix on April 02, 2009, 21:06:29

Never. ever. use. Winamp. for. MODs.
Seriously. At least use the BASS plugin for Winamp if you don't have it already. The default plugin, MikMod, is pure crap.

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: usrfriendly on April 07, 2009, 22:59:17

If I can go out on a limb here, how well does VLC handle mods?

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: raina on April 08, 2009, 00:58:28

@poguemahon, it's a crapfest.

EDIT: Checked the sources, libmodplug is used.

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: usrfriendly on April 08, 2009, 10:34:29

Thanks for the heads-up.

Title: Re: VLC Player
Post by: Jews32 on December 16, 2009, 13:16:16

Hi thanks for this guide, but when i try to install the last several lines of my terminal text say I'm missing a bunch of dependencies?

edit: nevermind, had to delete some files and it worked fine.