gHacks technology news » winamp plugin http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Winamp Minitube Adds Youtube Videos To Music http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/20/winamp-minitube-adds-youtube-videos-to-music/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/20/winamp-minitube-adds-youtube-videos-to-music/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:24:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8423 Minitube is a Winamp plugin that unfortunately works only with Winamp and not with related music clients like AIMP2. The plugin searches Youtube automatically once a song starts playing grabbing the first result from the video portal and starting to play it on the desktop in its own window.

It would be rather chaotic if both the music player and the video would be playing the music; This is why the developers have made the decision to either play the music in Winamp and mute the video or mute Winamp and play the video with sound.

Minitube has a few additional options that can enhance the experience. It is possible to set the connection to low or high bandwidth, start the video in a window or fullscreen or to automatically hide the player if no video is found or skip to the next song instead.

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The playback is normally not synchronous due to the fact that the music track begins playing before the search is conducted. It can also happen that the first result on Youtube is no longer available which would display a “The video is no longer available” message for the duration of the song or that an unrelated video – with the correct song – is pulled from Youtube.

The best application for this would probably be to load a mp3 playlist and select to play the Youtube videos with sound in fullscreen. This would be like a custom music video channel on the Internet.

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Like iTunes the Winamp iPod plugin can sync songs, ratings and other information between a connected iPod and the Winamp Media Library. The default process makes only sense if the Media Library on the PC would fit on the iPod, if that is not the case the user needs to pick songs that get synced so that their total size is below the capacity of the iPod.

Songs, Videos and Photos can be copied to the iPod using the plugin. There are also some features to manipulate songs before they are moved to the iPod including replay gain, gapless playback, lyrics and album art.

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It’s definitely a great software for those users who do not want to download and install the Apple iTunes software which is without doubt resource hungry.

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A short note on how to activate this beautiful visualization. Download it from the website that I linked to above and install it into your winamp directory. Make sure you select the right directory where winamp is installed. Once that is done you right-click in winamp and select Visualization -> Visualization options. Click on Plugins -> Visualizations in the left pane and start the Mojo Master Visualization plugin and watch her dance.

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