Top AIMP Plugins
AIMP is a popular music player that has the look and feel of a modern Winamp in my opinion. The player has been updated to version 4 recently, featuring a new interface (you can restore the classic interface) and other changes.
The player has a plugin system that works similar to that of Winamp and, what may surprise new users, it even supports Winamp plugins to a degree.
AIMP ships with several plugins, but you can install new ones that are made available on the official website to extend the player's functionality further.
The following top list lists plugins for the player that you may find interesting. Plugins are installed usually by extracting archives they are delivered in to the local system, and copying the resulting folder into the AIMP/Plugins directory on the system.
Top AIMP Plugins
Compatible with AIMP 2.6 or newer
The plugin pauses playback of music automatically when the PC gets locked, and will resume playback the moment the system is unlocked again.
Compatible with AIMP 3.6 or newer
Adds the BASS audio library based on ZXTune to AIMP. Supports the following extensions: as0, asc, ay, chi, cop, dmm, dst, ftc, gtr, m, psc, psg, psm, pt1, pt2, pt3, sid, sqd, sqt, st1, s, st3, stc, stp, str, tf0, tfc, tfd, tfe, ts, txt, vtx, ym but no Internet streams.
Compatible with all versions of AIMP 2.6 or newer
The plugin adds three new options to the removal options of playlists: by author, by album or by genre.
Compatible with AIMP 3 or newer.
The plugin minimizes AIMP automatically when it is started.
Compatible with AIMP 4 or newer.
The plugin enables you to load the selected track in external applications (think audio editor, tag program).
Compatible with AIMP 3.6 or newer
Adds an option to the music player to play a random track from a random playlist.
Compatible with AIMP 3.6 or newer
This plugin adds SoundCloud support to AIMP. You can load SoundCloud urls with a click on the plus icon and selecting the option once the plugin has been added to the player.
Supports user streams, custom urls, song exclusion, automatic loading of new items, combining multiple SoundCloud playlists into a single playlist and more.
Compatible with AIMP 3.6 or newer
The plugin ensures that all artists of a playlist are played evenly.
Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?