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Title: flac winamp
Post by: georgeh on October 08, 2006, 08:06:01 PM

Any reason my flac file would read as a winamp file? I dragged files, winamp/wave into flac 1.7.1 decoded and they came out as winamp files again.
although they where about half the size. i dragged those files back to flac fronted and they came up as flac files?????
Before I torrent these I want to know if they'll apprear as winamp or flac files
thanks fro any help
george

Title: Re: flac winamp
Post by: F.O.Bean on October 08, 2006, 08:18:42 PM

Quote from: georgeh on October 08, 2006, 08:06:01 PM

Any reason my flac file would read as a winamp file? I dragged files, winamp/wave into flac 1.7.1 decoded and they came out as winamp files again.
although they where about half the size. i dragged those files back to flac fronted and they came up as flac files?????
Before I torrent these I want to know if they'll apprear as winamp or flac files
thanks fro any help
george

sound like flacs to me

right-click the file and see what the properties say

Title: Re: flac winamp
Post by: macdaddy on October 08, 2006, 08:29:26 PM

you have winamp set as the default program for flac apparently. the flac files still open up in any other app that reads them, but double clicking them will play 'em in winamp...

you should use foobar, anyway ;)

Title: Re: flac winamp
Post by: Brian Skalinder on October 08, 2006, 08:29:47 PM

Quote from: georgeh on October 08, 2006, 08:06:01 PM

Any reason my flac file would read as a winamp file?

Because Winamp is the default application associated with files having the extension .flac.  Two things may help:

<1>  disable hiding extensions - depending on what Win OS you're running, some variation of:  Tools | Options | View and untick Hide file extensions for known file types;  this step isn't necessary, but will allow you to see the file extension, something I find useful.

<2>  associate FLAC FrontEnd with FLAC files - again, depending on what Win OS you're running, some variation of:  Tools | Options | File Types, select FLAC file type, hit the Change button, and select FLAC FrontEnd from the list (or navigate via the Other button and select the FLAC FrontEnd EXE).

Title: Re: flac winamp
Post by: georgeh on October 08, 2006, 08:51:40 PM

thanks
+ brian for the step by step, didn't do this before when i converted flacs, just started runnnig winamp a couple of weeks ago

george

Title: Re: flac winamp
Post by: rowjimmy on October 11, 2006, 09:33:16 AM

Quote from: macdaddy on October 08, 2006, 08:29:26 PM

you should use foobar, anyway ;)

This is very true.
http://www.foobar2000.org

Title: Re: flac winamp
Post by: F.O.Bean on October 12, 2006, 05:21:26 PM

Quote from: rowjimmy on October 11, 2006, 09:33:16 AM

Quote from: macdaddy on October 08, 2006, 08:29:26 PM

you should use foobar, anyway ;)

This is very true.
http://www.foobar2000.org

install the 'special' version, it already has flac/shn and a ton of other plugins