Okay a correction here, I use VLC for playing video certainly as illustrated in the example I gave but VLC is indeed a media player and I use VLC to play all! My media here now, no more Itunes or anything else. Obviously I have to look for other alternatives to play MIDI files and these alternatives such as Garage Band are easy to find. I don't begrudge VLC Media player for not being able to play MIDI files, MIDI files are not media files rather control files that controls electronic instruments or groups thereof.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Differences between Winamp and VLC? Hello Dane and list: VLC may be a good player for video (haven't played with it as extensively as some) although I will say that I tried to play a video that I have in my collection (is one of a show that I was involved in) for whatever reason, VLC absolutely would not play it! Never was able to find out why! For me, if you're strictly talking about audio, I'll take Winamp any day and am sorry that it isn't being updated anymore! But that's just me; others may have differing opinions, but Winamp is the one that seems to work best for me! Tom Kaufman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 8:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? For what its worth from me and thanks for starting this discussion. Its been a very long while since I used Winamp, why did I stop using it? Because Winamp kept crashing when I tried to play video files recorded in standard TS format from my video TV tuners that I use still ttill this day though different models obviously. So then began my search for a new player that was easy to use and did what I believe a player needs to do, play the track when I press play, move to the next track or skip through a track when I press or hold the forward button etc. VLC did these things and many more besides. I grant you, VLC is not the friendliest App to get around but one can get around much of it using the JAWS cursor or whatever your thing is called on your Screen Reader. If I had my way equalisers in players wouldn't be present. I know I sound harsh but the amount of times I've seen equalisers abused to the point that people manage to stuff their speaker systems up causes me to perhaps take this view. A good sounding pair of speakers which don't cost all that much these days shouldn't require any additional medaling in the form of an equaliser. I went to someone's house the other day, this chap had what I would call a perfectly serviceable pair of Altec Lansing computer speakers, well at least I would have termed this speaker system in that way when it was bought but after this chap had applied God only knows how many equalisers in the audio chain? Well this respectable speaker system had been turned to the sound of mud literally, sure! Enough bottom but for what, to demolish the house and perhaps Next doors dwelling too? It certainly didn't sound good. And the top, well it was there but incredibly harsh to the point that my ears felt sore just trying to listen to the thing. Where was the Mid-range? Lost somewhere in the cocofany of noise. Anyway back to the point of VLC and I'm very pleased to say that the developers are slowly but surely making accessibility fixes as updates roll out and I reckon they're doing a fair job since VLC is an open source package. I use VLC on other devices such as my Apple Mac machines, iPhone and iPads and Android with pleasing results. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 8:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? The VlC equalizer is certainly a lot less convenient to set and save settings than the Winamp one using a screen-reader. One can easily adopt any of the presets, but saving your own settings requires messing with the not-too-accessible filters within the preferences dialog box. Actually the whole design is weird and I wish that Video Lan gave the ability to easily save and load multiple equalizer settings in VLC. Just curious, but why not have both programmes? I watch a lot of movies, especially with my sighted partner, and VLC is without doubt an awesome video player and far more versatile and just better at this than winamp ever was. However, I still use Winamp for my audio needs and it works exceedingly well for this purpose even in Windows 10. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian Olesen Sent: October 5, 2018 5:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? Hi all you nice audiofiles, Well I use VLC myself, but I have an old fascion student, who prefers Winamp. I want to persuade him to do the switch. But how is it with information about timing lenghth of files in minutes and seconds and such. Can we easily get to that info also in VLC? Are there other fields where VLC lacks information compared to Winamp? Is it actually the other way around? Best regards Brian -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1295): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/1295 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/26845083/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
