Some things I particularly like about VLC, its audio and video quality are better than Itunes and Quicktime, they both use the same decoders I believe. VLC handles .m3u playlists better than Itunes does and this could be important if you're running a network of Windows and Mac machines as I do, I had ripped many of my CD'S into .mp3 format, each CD having a .m3u playlist associated with it, yep I can import these into Itunes now and some I've already done that with but it was just nice to be able to run VLC from the Mac and pull whatever .m3u playlist from the network I wanted to play. VLC also handles "Nested Playlists", suppose you have a talking book of 18 CD'S with each CD in its own folder, you can set a playlist to reference each track in each folder, only thing you have to remember to do is to modify the backslash character - if the playlist was created in Windows - to a slash character for use with the Mac, the slashes and backslashes determine the path of the files obviously <smile> and that's nothing that Text Edit can't handle with a simple find and replace.
On 24/08/2009, at 12:49 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Yes, vlc is great, I use that along with itunes, and some times quick > time, between those 3 programs, all of the major formats are covered I > think. > On Aug 22, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: > >> I didn't know there was a Winamp available for the Mac, does anyone >> have an url? Is it as good as Winamp for the PC? I have to admit >> that I think VLC to be one of the best media players around. >> >> >> On 22/08/2009, at 7:29 PM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I'm quite a big fan of using VLC to play my media files. However, >>> when using >>> Winamp, it's very easy to find how at waht point in the track I am. >>> This >>> also works in VLC, but is there a way to change it from displaying >>> in >>> seconds to minutes please? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> james >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> ****************************** >> >> Dane Trethowan >> From Melton Victoria Australia >> mailto:"[email protected] >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane >> blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com >> Phone United Kingdom >> 02032874641 >> Phone Australia >> 0390058589 >> Phone United States >> 8159261869 >> Fax: >> +61 3 9743 7954x >> MSN [email protected] >> skype:grtdane12 >> >> ****************************** >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> > > > > ****************************** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:"[email protected] Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com Phone United Kingdom 02032874641 Phone Australia 0390058589 Phone United States 8159261869 Fax: +61 3 9743 7954x MSN [email protected] skype:grtdane12 ****************************** --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
