I'll give it a shot...
Zack wrote on Jun 28
th, 2009 at 1:30pm:
Thanks in advance if you can help me with a music management question.
I have 80 GB of music converted to mp3 on iTunes because that's all my iPod will hold. The rest, including the original flac and shn that I've converted to mp3, I keep on an external hard drive and use the free Winamp player to play it. Because it keeps trying to sell me stuff and impose its fucking toolbar on me, I wanted to dump Winamp and considered trying to build a library using Windows Media Player, but 1) I can't get it not to add my iPod library as well as the stuff on the external drive, and 2) it won't play my flac files anyway. So, in giving in to the idea that I have to stick with Winamp or something similar, I am curious to know
I haven't had much of a problem with Winamp upsells and the tool bar. It is my preferred media player.
Quote:A) Is the premium Winamp you pay for much better than the free version and worth the cost (it's cheap I know but I'm reluctant to buy it anyway)?
Never tried it.
Quote:B) Is there an alternative to Winamp I should consider to play my external drive library?
C) Is it dumb of me to keep the shn version of stuff converted to flac, or the flac version of stuff I've converted (I can't tell the damn difference between the original flac and the mp3 version) and
If you do any trading, seeding, burning, re-seeding, then probably. I burn everything on Data DVD's.
Quote:D) Does a player exist that plays shn without converting it first to flac?
Winamp
Quote:E) Is there a free shn-to-flac or mp3 conversion program out there that doesn't expire in a month? I've used a bunch in the past, but at this point, I can't do anything with my shn files, and I have to burn my flac files to disc with Nero then convert them to mp3 with iTunes. This is obviously very inefficient. Can one program do all? If I break down and buy one, which is best?
Convert the SHNs and FLACs to wav first, then MP3.
Freerip has a FLAC to MP3 option but it was so slow the one time I tried it that I went to Wav first with the FLAC program then MP3.
Freerip is a good program but it only converts in batches of 5 tracks maximum unless you buy it. I mostly just convert samples, random tracks or even untracked wavs.