[BC] AudioVault / WinAmp

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In a message dated 06/30/2006 9:42:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jallen at locallyownedradio.com writes:

> I use Wshed.  It's free.  It does take some screwing around to get it to do
>  what you want.  I have it open a new playlist each hour depending on how
>  long I need it, a legal ID at the begining of each playlist. 

Ah-ha. Ok. My playlist is about 1400 songs, and I wanted something that would 
fire specific cuts (like SID) at the top-of-hour, based on the PC clock and 
"closest fit" kind of logic.

>  I only use it
>  when something really bad happens...like a dead SS32 at 3 AM.  Winamp does
>  play wav files just fine, it's not strapped to playing MP3s.  I use it as a
>  backup playing WAV files from the SS32 Dispatch machine.

At work, I use WinAmp as a file format converter all the time. No matter what 
gets thrown at it, MP3, MP2 (with MPG label) or various sample rate WAVs, I 
have it spit-out 32K 16 bit mono WAV files. It's very fast, and sounds very 
good. You can configure it to "force" virtually any standard WAV format you wish, 
or let it output whatever was encoded into the MPx file.

I use mine to run through my ~1400 song playlist 24/7 via a tiny FM 
transmitter in my house. The computer & tx are in my guestroom closet. When I want 
music, I just turn on a radio. It would have been cool to have it "announce" the 
time every hour. :)

It's a pretty nifty program, no matter how you use it.

Willie...