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Hi,

I have some music tracks in a format that I can only play in Winamp if using a plugin. I can't play them in Audacity due to this, is there a way around this?

Cheers

What format are they in?

Audacity Version 1.3 can import many file formats if the ffMpeg library is installed.
Instructions for downloading ind installing it are here:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

POL

You can sometimes tell what's going on by right-click the music file > Properties > Advanced. Read the format if it tells you.

Koz

Conrad wrote:I have some music tracks in a format that I can only play in Winamp if using a plugin. I can't play them in Audacity due to this, is there a way around this?

You could play the weird format track using Winamp and have Audacity record the sound ... http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=reco ... =streaming

Trebor wrote:

Conrad wrote:I have some music tracks in a format that I can only play in Winamp if using a plugin. I can't play them in Audacity due to this, is there a way around this?

You could play the weird format track using Winamp and have Audacity record the sound ... http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=reco ... =streaming

I think there's a plugin in winamp to save the output as wav. In the preferences for the output device, there used to be an option to redirect the output to a file it would save a wav IIRC

bgravato wrote: I think there's a plugin in winamp to save the output as wav. In the preferences for the output device, there used to be an option to redirect the output to a file it would save a wav

Options > Preferences > Plugins / Output
select "Nullsoft Disk Writer".

Whatever WinAmp plays will then be written directly to disk instead of playing through your sound card.
You will need to "configure" the plug-in to set the required folder and format for the output file.