Winamp is one of the best free music management applications on earth. Besides providing loads of features to organize your music collection, it also burns CDs. Thanks to a user-friendly interface, burning a CD with Winamp is no big deal. Now just follow the below steps to burn your favorite songs to CD with ease.
Burning music CDs with Winamp
Winamp, in turn, depends on another program called Pacemaker to perform the magic of changing the playback speed without changing the pitch. Winamp is free, but Pacemaker is not - it'll cost you almost $10. I figured you'd feel that being able to change the speed of the music smoothly, without changing the pitch, would be well worth that.
- Winamp has had 0 updates within the past 6 months. If you want MP3 encoding and full-speed CD burning, you have to shell out $19.95 for the Pro version. CD playback and ripping now using.
- Due to difference in Foobar and Winamp architecture (Foobar has floating point audio chunks, while Winamp has fixed point ones), floating point to fixed point conversion (and vice versa) is necessary. Conversion Bit-depth parameter can be set to: 16-bit: low quality, failsafe. Choose this setting, if you encounter a problem while playback.
First, please download the free version of Winamp at the official website: http://www.winamp.com/. After downloading, follow the installation wizard to install the program and launch. Usually, a window will pop up, asking you to add some video and audio files from your computer. If the window doesn't show up, you can click 'File' > 'Add Media to Library' and select the video/audio folder to import files. Now insert a blank CD in your computer's CD-ROM for storing the songs.
Adding Files
To add the files you want to burn, on the main interface of Winamp, go to 'View' > 'Media Library' and scroll down to the Media Library menu on the left and click on 'Blank Disc'. You can then click 'Add' on the bottom. As you'll see, you have three choices: Files, Folders and Current Playlist.
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If you already have the playlist you want to burn, you can choose 'Current Playlist'. If you don't have one, then click 'Files' or 'Folders' to bring up the search window. Then browse your computer to find the files or music folders you want to burn and click 'OK' to add them for burning. (Adding files means you want to add an individual song from your computer's hard drive, while adding folders means you would rather select an entire music folder to burn.)
Once you have built your burning playlist, just hit 'Burn' to start burning the songs to CD. On the popup window, choose 'Enable Burn-Proof Mode', which can ensure the success of the CD burning. You can select the burning speed according to your need. You get what you pay for though, as the speed is restricted in the free version.
When you've finished adjusting your settings, click 'Burn' to start. The music will be burned as an MP3 CD and you can play them freely on CD players. That's the whole process of burning CD with Winamp.
Tips:
1. Winamp can also help you rip CD to MP3. For detailed information, please go to Rip CD with Winamp.
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2. Winamp cannot help you burn video DVD for playback on DVD players and TV. If you have some video files to burn, you can turn to Aimersoft Best DVD Burner, which can help you burn AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, MKV, VOB, MOV, ASF, etc, videos to DVD with custom DVD menus.
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- 1Description
Allows the use of Winamp DSP plugins.
Usage[edit]
- Choose 'Winamp plugins path' with 'Browse' button;
- Click 'Rescan' button;
- Set bit-depth in 'Fixed point conversion parameters'(details);
- Choose one of Winamp plugins from 'Plugin list';
- Click 'Show interface window' to show plugin settings window (if available);
Plugin setting window also available from Foobar2000 main menu: choose 'Show Winamp DSP window' from 'View' menu;
Known bugs and limitations[edit]
- Version 1.4.1 - 1.4.4 startup crashes(how to avoid);
- Supports only Winamp 2.0 compatible plugins;
- Doesn't support plugins with Pitch control and Speed control functionality;
- 192kHz files are not being played correctly (only up to 96kHz)
Sound quality issues[edit]
Due to difference in Foobar and Winamp architecture (Foobar has floating point audio chunks, while Winamp has fixed point ones), floating point to fixed point conversion (and vice versa) is necessary.
Conversion Bit-depth parameter can be set to:
- 16-bit: low quality, failsafe. Choose this setting, if you encounter a problem while playback;
- 24-bit: hi-quality;
- 32-bit: highest quality.
Foo_dsp_winamp converter has built-in limiter to avoid audio signal clipping. Limiter is non-bypassing (i.e. always on), so if you want to keep signal spectrum close to its original, you should use ReplayGain subsystem.
How to avoid startup crash[edit]
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- For Foobar v0.9.6 and later: download the latest version of foo_dsp_winamp (1.4.5);
- For Foobar versions prior to 0.9.6: you can avoid startup crash by removing dsp_sps.dll from C:Program FilesWinampPlugins folder (it's a default path, check your winamp installation to find desired path). Than you can change 'Winamp plugins path' in foo_dsp_winamp settings and put dsp_sps.dll back to Plugins folder.
- Official Website (offline as of 2014/01/28)
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