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Russian Mac fan · Feb 23, 2004, 03:32 PM

It hasn't been updated in forever.

I need an mp3 player (free or shareware) that I can have playlists with and easy rewinding/ff with keyboard apart from ITunes.

For instance, I need to listen to my recorded radio talk show mp3s with ITunes playing jazz music at low volume in the background. I am currently using VLC for this purpose but am wondering if there;s anything else.

Mplayer seems very unstable for me.

Russian Mac fan · Feb 23, 2004, 03:32 PM

What I don't like about VLC when playing mp3 is that the sound quality gets very distorted if I set the volume on it at more than 40%. Anyone else?

Millennium · Feb 23, 2004, 03:41 PM

I haven't really done much MP3-ing in a long time, but I still have Audion around.

I do wish I knew what was going on with it, though. You're right; it really hasn't been updated in just about forever.

Vader�s Pinch of Death · Feb 23, 2004, 03:44 PM

SoundJam all the way!!!

Not

Russian Mac fan · Feb 23, 2004, 04:13 PM

But SoundJam is old too! When was the last update? 2001?

-Q- · Feb 23, 2004, 04:49 PM

Originally posted by Russian Mac fan:
But SoundJam is old too! When was the last update? 2001?

Well, technically Soundjam was updated at Macworld.

Vader�s Pinch of Death · Feb 23, 2004, 07:08 PM

Originally posted by Russian Mac fan:
But SoundJam is old too! When was the last update? 2001?

When Apple bought it and made iTunes out of it.

Angus_D · Feb 25, 2004, 04:41 PM

Wasn't SoundJam a Casady & Greene product? They're not even around any more...

-Q- · Feb 25, 2004, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by Angus_D:
Wasn't SoundJam a Casady & Greene product? They're not even around any more...

It was. And then Apple hired the developer and I think he technically owned the product and C&G was just a publisher. So when they lost one of their biggest sellers, I think they started going downhill...

Judge_Fire · Feb 26, 2004, 02:09 AM

Mint Audio is a small, powerful, feature filled and stable player from Unsanity. Get it from http://www.unsanity.com/mint/

Playlists, crossfades, multiple formats like ogg and ac3, EQ and even skins.

Very likeable thing. So its old, too? It works.

J

The DJ · Mar 2, 2004, 06:56 PM

Originally posted by Russian Mac fan:
What I don't like about VLC when playing mp3 is that the sound quality gets very distorted if I set the volume on it at more than 40%. Anyone else?

40% in VLC is what is 100% in QT or iTunes.
above that setting it starts artificially increase the volume (like you can do with the iTunes equalizer as well )

BTW. VLC also has a nice visual effect.
open preferences->audio
enter "goom" in the audio filters field and save. Restart VLC and play mp3. now you have iTunes like effects. Will be further integrated in the future.

Russian Mac fan · Mar 4, 2004, 02:41 AM

can you tell me though what setting I should use to have the same sound quality as the default ITunes or QT audio quality? I have the volume pre-set to about 25% but it still sounds kind of off when compared to Itunes.