To install a skin onto your Winamp, simply download a skin, uncompress it into the SKINS directory in your WINAMP directory. The skins have different directories for each skin. After you moves the skin directory, run Winamp, go to the options menu and choose “Skin Browser”. You will get a list of available skins, where […]
Usually the MP3 player come in some way, with some nice graphics, and a nice interface, but in time you might get bored looking at the same window, and you might want a change. That’s how Skins, and Plugins came to the world. Instead of seeing the usual textures, and the same VU meter which […]
MP3s are very restricted when it comes to dealing with them. There is not much you can do with it since it’s encoded. Although it’s great and takes up a lot less space then the regular WAV files, you might want to change it or edit it, and for that you will need a decoder. […]
After you’ve ripped the track you wish to convert to MP3 the file you have in WAV format, which takes up a lot of space. To convert the WAV to MP3 you have to encode it, as MP3 are encoded sound files. To do so, you need (yes, you guessed) an encoder program. Encoding is […]
CD-Ripping is a process where you copy tracks directly from a CD and convert them to readable WAV files (or some other un-encoded format). You actually “rip” the CD’s tracks, and put them on disk.
To “rip” tracks from a CD you will need a program which does so. The Ripping process doesn’t actually rips tracks […]
Here’s what you do if you want to install an MP3 player. I’m taking as an example the famous program Winamp. First download the install file either from us or from their homepage. Afterwards, you run the self extracting EXE by double clicking on it (you might need Winzip to open the file). Choose a […]
MP3 players are just what they sound like, programs which simply take MP3 files as they are encoded and play them directly. As you know MP3s are unlike WAV files, as they are encoded, that’s why a simple WAV player can’t play MP3s. That’s why we have MP3 players alone, such as Winamp, Music Matchbox, […]
MPEG Layer-3 or better known as MP3 is an advanced audio coding schemes that has been mainly developed by the Audio and Multimedia department of Fraunhofer IIS from Germany. It offers the advantage of playing audio files at the original sound quality at a data reduction up to 12 times of the source file.
The MP3 […]