Topic: New Vista ?'s

[Rleeee]

For our anniversary my wife got me a new Dell Inspiron notebook, with Vista Home Premium. The programs and tools I used on my old computer for working with recordings were:

                     Nero 6 Ultra
                     mkw shn tool
                     FLAC Frontend
                     AddaWave
                     CD Wave
                     r8brain
                     Rockbox for my iRiver
 These were either free or small donation type programs.  My Question is which of these can be used with Vista, and what would I use to do these tasks in Vista? Changing OS is not an option  I have only been using a computer for 5yrs, so I am not really attached to XP but I am very attached to my wife. 

           

[DeepCreatures]

i just recently updated to Vista a couple of months ago (and really am enjoying it).  i had no probs running Nero (although i updated to 7 ultra right after i got Vista), FLAC frontend, or CD Wave.  i never could get mkw shn tool to work, but just went ahead and got Foobar 2000 (or whatever it was) and that took care of shn and everything else, although i still like FLAC Frontend better.  don't know about the others.

peace,
ts

[hyperplane]

For our anniversary my wife got me a new Dell Inspiron notebook, with Vista Home Premium. The programs and tools I used on my old computer for working with recordings were:

                     Nero 6 Ultra
                     mkw shn tool
                     FLAC Frontend
                     AddaWave
                     CD Wave
                     r8brain
                     Rockbox for my iRiver
 These were either free or small donation type programs.  My Question is which of these can be used with Vista, and what would I use to do these tasks in Vista? Changing OS is not an option  I have only been using a computer for 5yrs, so I am not really attached to XP but I am very attached to my wife. 

           

I'm not positive if Nero 6 will work with Vista or not.  But it might very well work.  Like DeepCreatures, I use Nero 7 ultra (with no problems) under Vista.

I have no idea with Addawav and r8brain will work.


I also have mkwACT SHN tool working* in Vista... install it the following way:

1) Right-click on the mkwACT097b1.exe file, click on Properties, then click on the Compatibility tab and put a checkmark beside "Run this program in compatibility mode for 'Windows 2000'".  Now close out that window.

2) Right-click on the mkwACT097b1.exe file, then click Run as administrator.

3) Now click on START (a.k.a. the pearl, a.k.a. the circular button in the lower left corner of the screen), click on All Programs, click on the mkw Audio Compression Toolit folder, then Right-click on the mkw Audio Compression Tool and select Properties.  Again, go to the Compatibility tab and put a checkmark beside "Run this program in compatibility mode for 'Windows 2000'".

4) Open up mkwACT, click on Options, click on Shorten... and select "Do not generate seek table".


NOTE:
* That's the real drawback of the mkwACT tool under Vista (no creation of seek tables). But it will enable you to do the old right-click on SHN files and decode them quickly.

Hope this helps.