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+---Topic: Program to Replace Winamp started by Andreas Wittberg
Posted by: Andreas Wittberg on Dec. 31 2002,18:02
I wonder if there is some one outthere who uses a program quite simmilar to winamp but shows the album and track number..
i have tested Music match, sonique but non of those satisfied my criterias (not sure about how that's spelled) the program ough to be light as winamp 2.x but still with the same features. No graphical effects..
Posted by: Andreas Wittberg on Dec. 31 2002,18:24
The output should look like this...
Artist - Album - Track# - Title
instead of winamps
Artist - Title
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Dec. 31 2002,19:00
I don't know anything about such a player (I use Winamp myself), but this Winamp plugin seems to extend the track-info display in Winamp, at least in the playlist:
< http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d8sunch/winamp/plugins.html#amarok >
Haven't used it myself though, and I'm not sure if it changes the info in the scrolling textbox, but it might be worth a shot anyway.
Posted by: Andreas Wittberg on Jan. 02 2003,18:57
hum.. note sure if I got the right one but the one I downloaded. was a plugin to controll bokmarks in each song. so it had nothing to do with.. the info in the play list..
I don't get it. why Nullsoft hasn't made the playlist custoimizeable.. It shouldn't be that hard to make a plugin that does that. but I've checked all the plugins in nullsoft's archive. and none of em seamd to do what is requested..
Posted by: sonicreducer on Jan. 02 2003,18:57
there is a plug in for winamp: EAR
< http://www.helium2.com/ear/index.html#screenshots >
you can choose which id3 tag you want to show... in these pics there are some example...
it's light and it use the winamp browser window
bye
sonic
Posted by: beaker on April 05 2003,19:08
The latest version of classic WinAmp (2.90) has a new "library" feature that allows the customization of what is displayed. I'm not sure that I like it yet quite honestly
but it allows for greater flexibility than the current playlist editor. I'll have to keep fiddling with it before I form an opinion...
Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 07 2003,00:12
Ok, cool, thanks for the info.
Posted by: Elbow on April 09 2003,08:25
Album List is what you need.
< http://albumlist.sourceforge.net/ >
---------------------QUOTE-------------------
What's Album List
Album List is a WinAMP general plugin that takes a directory tree and turns it into a list of albums. This allows easy navigation among albums stored in different directories, especially those stored on CDs.
Major functionality includes:
multiple CD-ROM drives support
multiple HD search directories
different sorting options
different display formats
skinnable
dockable
shortcut keys
language packs
and much more...
check the history page for the full list
This plugin requires Winamp 2.05 or later and works on Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP.
---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Hows it all going Magnus?
Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 09 2003,11:53
Thanks for the tip TokyoElbow, and nice to see you on the board! Long time no post, as we say in the business.
All's fine with me, and I hope the same applies to you? Still hanging around those other forums too much to have any time for us, huh?
Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 11 2003,13:07
Sounds great, thanks.
Posted by: tonyhughes on April 11 2003,18:08
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious but winamp can be configured to display artist - album - track# - title in the playlist.
options / preferences / plugins; input / Nullsoft mpeg audio decoder / configure / title. Tick 'use tags' and change lower box to %1 - %3 - %a - %2
It will also show filename and path which I find useful.
I find if any chosen field e.g. comment contains a VERY long entry, winamp will crash.
This works in winamp 290 but not in winamp3, at least it didn't on the first day of winamp3, one of several reasons I prefer winamp2.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 11 2003,18:48
Cool! That's the perfect solution for this question I think, thanks.
And I don't like Winamp 3 either.
For some reason it takes several (and I mean like 3-6) seconds to start on some of my computers, and it's overall sluggish just in general too. Anyone else noticed this? I mean, they just can't have ignored such a problem if it was behaving like that for everyone?! That alone makes me drop it in a second anyway.
Posted by: beaker on May 12 2003,02:54
tony,
I like your solution best. I didn't realize you could do that either, thanks for pointing it out.
Posted by: Henbe on Aug. 19 2003,19:53
Check out < foobar2000 > if your looking for a no nonsens audio player. Itīs got fully configurable playlist view.
/Henbe\
Posted by: NRen2k5 on Sep. 03 2003,01:18
You can have Winamp display the tag info any way you want without having to download extra plug-ins. Well... at least for MP3. Just go to Plgu-ins->Input and go into the MPEG Audio Decoder's configuration. In there you can change the way the ID3 tags are displayed in the playlist window.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 03 2003,01:37
Yep, that's exactly what Tony said above in this thread. Thanks anyway.
Posted by: RoyalEF on Nov. 24 2003,23:51
---------------------QUOTE BEGIN-------------------
The output should look like this...
Artist - Album - Track# - Title
instead of winamps
Artist - Title
---------------------QUOTE-------------------
WinAmp5 does EXACTLY what you want.
In preferences go to TITLES
Using the Advance formatting option
[%artist% - ][%album% - ][%tracknumber% - ]$if2(%title%,$filepart(%filename%))
Winamp5 Beta 2 is publicly available and very stable.
An excellent upgrade to WInamp2
Posted by: weezer YenSid on Jan. 17 2005,16:46
FWIW, here's my personal preference on Winamp 5's standard output tag:
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
$if(%filename%,[%year% - ][%album% - ][$num(%tracknumber%,2) - ][%artist% - ][%title%][ %comment%],'['$fileext(%filename)']' $filepart(%filename%))
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
Basically, it will display the output on an mp3 file as:
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
Year - Album - Track # - Artist - Title [Comment]
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
except without the brackets around the Comment part... all of my personal comment tags already have the brackets included in them.
and if the file doesn't have tags, it will output the display as:
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
[ext] Filename
---------------------CODE SAMPLE-------------------
where "ext" is the file extension.
Lossless APE files also have a formattable text output for the playlist. I'd love to see MP3TS support the file type someday.
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