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Help with error msg!
by Jeff Wawryk 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Just installed Winamp 2.72 and the newest mad plugin, Whenever I change to 24 or 32 bit I get a "Cannot Set Ouput " Im using an Audiophile 2496 on Win98se. Can anybody help? Ive tried changing buffer size and a few other setting with no luck. Thanks Jeff ICQ# 32714714

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playlist with mad?
by Jonah Michaud 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Hello, I was wondering what people are using to do playlists with mad, maybe xhippo? I'm using Linux/KDE. And I love MAD, the sound is noticeably "cleaner". Not sure how else to describe it. Thanks! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [mad-user] playlist with mad?
by Jonah Michaud 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

> Jonah Michaud wrote: > > Hello, I was wondering what people are using to do playlists > > with mad, maybe xhippo? I'm using Linux/KDE. > > I use the filesystem as a playlist, with symlinks for various > cross-categories. I then usually use madplay's shuffle mode to mix things up, > or sometimes I just play through a single album using the filenames sorted > into track order. > > I like GUIs, but as you might guess I also often prefer alternatives. :-) > I hope this is the right way to reply- I'm just copying the subject line by hand. I didn't notice there was a shuffle mode, I'll try that for myself. Then maybe compile xhippo for my parents since they're still kind of new to Linux. > There has been one proposal to add some kind of option similar to mpg123's -@ > playlist option to read a list of filenames from another file. Does anyone > else also like this idea? > That sounds useful. Now that I know I can play a series of files on the command line though :) I'll just use that. It doesn't matter to me personally whether the list is on the command line or in a file. Thanks again for such a great free player. > Cheers, > -rob __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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Slightly off topic - recording limiter
by D D 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

I am to ask in this list since over the years I have asked a lot of people in several www boards with no luck. I am looking helplessly for a solution to dynamic level limiting during recording via soundcard. It seems MAD's dynamic level limiting is unique worldwide (Rob, you should definitely patent this). I just cannot understand why nobody, repeat nobody, has ever thought about doing the same thing for recording. Why cannot a recording software (or audio editor plugin) implement a scheme for automatic level decreasing when recording in the same manner as MAD ? Is it technically impossible ? I'd appreciate very much any tips (or other places to ask this question) you may have, since I spend a lot of time to adjust the optimal level during recording. Thank you in advance :)

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Slightly off topic - recording limiter
by D D 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

Judging from the post so far and a private response I got, I realise that I was not very clear in my first post. I am not sure whether the input level sliders work on the analog or the digital part of soundcards, i.e. before or after the ADC, but having as a working hypothesis that the mixer works on the analog circuit, what I do is: a) match my preamplifier console output level and the soundcard input (mixer slider) so they give a little above 0db b) lower gradually *with the mouse* the mixer slider until no clipping occurs. In these terms what I desire is a software solution to lowering the slider i.e. a program to do what my hand does when lowering the slider, in the very same sense that MAD does it - when it sees clipping it reduces the "amplification". In the hope that I am more clear now, I wait for any further ideas :)

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MAD 0.12.5b
by Magnus Holmgren 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

Hi, It seems that the 0.12.5b version of the MAD WinAmp plugin is a bit unstable. Since installing it, I've had WinAmp (2.72) crash several times on me (generally trying to read memory it isn't allowed to read). I think this happens at the end of a file. Once or twice it has even crashed Windows 2000 on me (as luck would have it, once it happened when I'd just started burning a CD)... Have anyone else had problems with this version? -- Magnus Holmgren

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MAD w/ 4.1 speakers
by RSWAVE2000＠aol.com 25 Feb '01

25 Feb '01

Is MAD made only for 2 speakers and it also for 4.1 speakers. MAD sounds good on my front speakers but not my rear speakers. I only hear sound from my front speakers sitting down but if I go up to my rear speakers it is sound coming out. ???

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Re: Clipping - Some naive (?) questions
by D D 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Dear all, Thank you for your lengthy responses, things seem to be much clearer in my head now. By reading the replies and ff123's article I think realise three points: a) Clipping is an inherent feature of the mp3 decoding-encoding process as related to the necessary time domain (integers) <--> frequency domain (floating point) transformations. b) Clipping during the reproduction of digital audio is also inevitable, due to sampling effects, because of players (domestic or computers) trying to restore the waveform parts contained within the samples. c) If I understood well, these two effects are interrelated. (a) implies that any wav file close to 100% risks of being clipped, and (b) implies that the extent of clipping depends on the type of music program encoded. (b) also for me implies that whenever there is high frequency content present in the wav (e.g. cymbals), the decoding process has few samples to process and moreover the respective analog waveform has acute peaks, so repeated short-term clippings are inevitable. On the other hand, low frequencies (violins, voice) have smooth peaks so when when clipping occurs, we have a long-term clipping i.e. a flattening of the waveform. I am convinced that both of these phenomena, detected by the peak detector of Mad, are quite audible - perhaps the low-frequency cases are a bit easier to detect because of higher ear and brain sensitivity to them. I wonder whether modern recording engineers are fully aware of these effects. The "Remastered" stickers on all those new generation CD's make me think ...

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Conditional setting in MAD plugin
by Helmut Hübers 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

How does this conditional stuff for the tag work? I would like MAD to show me the trackname if an ID3 tag is not present, not only this "? - ?". Can someone give me an example? In the MAD plugin configuration there is mentioned a conditional option %?x<IF|ELSE>, but I don't understand how it should be used. Thanks, HelH

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flaws in 12.2 fixed ?
by Samuel Tan 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

Hear there's a problem with the dithering in 12.2b from decoder test page. http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~djmrob/mp3decoders/decoders_winampmad.html Just wondering, has it been fixed yet ? And what about the clipping of the end of files ? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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