Written by Peter Pawlowski, http://www.blorp.com/~peter/
quick notes
1. Genre list is not included with plug-in setup. The plug-in will automatically remember anything you type in genre field and store it in genres.txt in Winamp directory. If you want to have in_mp3-like genre list and don't feel like typing it, you can download it from http://www.blorp.com/~peter/genres.txt (put it in Winamp directory). Thanks to everyone who sent me genre list files :) Note that the genre list is shared with my other input plug-ins (in_midi, in_vqf).
2. Updates (if any) will be (usually) available at http://www.blorp.com/~peter/zips/in_vorbis.exe
3. DO NOT use 24/32bit output unless you really know what it does. Leave the default setting (16bit).
4. If you want to bypass 'special' field names in title formatting (eg. to display tags like "FILENAME" from file instead of displaying file name), add _vorbis_ before tag name, eg. "%_vorbis_filename".
* F A Q *
Q: Whenever I try to start playback, I get "The specified format is not supported or cannot be translated (...)" error message. Why ?
A: Go to Winamp preferences / plugins / input / Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder, click config, set output format to 16-bit. 24 & 32-bit modes DO NOT work on most of available sound cards.
Q: I get "Couldn't create secondary buffer" / "Couldn't set output format" error message.
A: Read above.
Q: I've set output format to 24 or 32-bit and my music sounds awful.
A: Disable EQ and any DSP plugins. Most of available DSP plugins can't handle any other formats than 16-bit.
Q: Tags written by oggenc commandline or < instert your home-made encoder / tag editor here > aren't read correctly (some characters truncate them).
A: The program which created these tags ignores UTF-8 text ecoding. Re-tag them with the plug-in or VCE and everything will be OK.
Q: I am having some weird problems with title / playlist display...
A: Enable 'show average bitrate' option.
Q: Streaming doesn't work.
A: Uninstall shit like MAD, mp3pro, etc. and try again. If you have old win95, install winsock2 update from microsoft.
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Vorbis encoder plug-in v1.52
(c) 2001 Peter Pawlowski
http://www.blorp.com/~peter/
uses libvorbis v1.0 RC3
This software is provided 'as is', without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk. You can redistribute this setup file for free, as long as it's unmodified. Please contact me before including it with any other software.
instructions:
In order to convert any file to Ogg, go to Winamp preferences / plug-ins / output, select Ogg Vorbis Encoder, play files you want to convert, then go back to preferences / plug-ins / output and select waveOut or DirectSound output.
Note: this plug-in can handle _any_ audio data format - you can encode 32-bit 6-channel files for an example.
*** Frequently Asked Questions ***
Q: Why can't I encode music from CDs ?
A: http://www.url.ru/~copah/CDReader.htm
Q: Why can't I convert MIDIs to OGGs ?
A: RTFM - http://www.blorp.com/~peter/midihelp/ . Converting from MIDI to OGG in realtime is NOT recommended (quality will suffer) - convert to WAV first, then encode.
Q: I've encoded files and now I can't play them, why ?
A: You are probably using old (pre-RC1) playback software, which can't handle final version OGG file standard. Install this: http://www.blorp.com/~peter/zips/in_vorbis.exe (there are several vorbis input plugins on Winamp.com, but only my one can actually play new OGG files). If you are having problems with other media players, download their latest versions / moan at their authors about updated Vorbis support.
