Online Music

SkinnYSkinnY Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7500Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">shopping</div> So, with the new wonderful technology i am now able to buy music online without leaving my room, thuse making me more antisocial....


aaaanyways, when playing my bought music in winamp, there's a 2-3 seconds pause while it's opening it <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> any of you guys experiencing this? any fix to it?
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  • CyndaneCyndane Join Date: 2003-11-15 Member: 22913Members
    What song downloader did you use, and are you sure they are mp3 and not some other variety, say wma, aac, etc.
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  • SkinnYSkinnY Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7500Members
    it's wma, but when i rip my cds with wmp this doesn't happen... i blame the protection so far <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • CyndaneCyndane Join Date: 2003-11-15 Member: 22913Members
    Well actually it depends, if you are ripping your cds to mp3, there might be a slight delay probably not noticable, since winamp likes to buffer songs before it plays them. At least the 5.0 does.

    Now as for other playback types, I have noticed with .midi, .aac, .wma, and etc (if they aren't mp3) there is a slight delay, usually around 2 seconds.

    I blame it more on the format and the programming of winamp, which is why I converted all of my .wav, .midi, and .wma over to .mp3.

    I want to use .aac, but itunes is a resource hog for the depths sources unknown.
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  • Omega_DeathOmega_Death Sith apprentice to a box of Cereal Join Date: 2003-08-06 Member: 19042Members
    Just to note, you could buy all the music you want for damned cheap, plus I think you can select how you want it encoded.
    <a href='http://www.allofmp3.com' target='_blank'>http://www.allofmp3.com</a>
    They don't have everything but they do have a lot.
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  • MausMaus Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
    NB: allofmp3 isn't strictly legal.
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  • SkinnYSkinnY Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7500Members
    edited June 2005
    okay, the music i buy is in .wma format, protected ofcourse...

    the music i rip from my cds is .wma, but i choose not to CR protect it, because, well... why? who's going to steal it from me?

    and this doesn't happen to the .wmas i ripped, but it happens with those i bought... so can anyone enlighten me on how this protection work?


    edit\\

    and yea i am aware of allofmp3 but like maus said, it doesn't quit play by the rules, and that kind of defeats my purpose of buying my music, i like to feel that i own the music and didn't steal it.
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  • CobyCoby Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8210Members
    wma's tend to have a slight delay for me too.. just as mp3 plays about in a blink, wma takes the good second to start up. Winamp tells "opening X%" whenever wma's opened. You're not alone brotha!
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    in your encoding options, there's this blank time option, by default 2 seconds usually. I suppose that downloaded music also has 2 seconds.

    Does the blank only happen in Winamp?
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  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    remove the protection and try then?
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