Songs-DB and WinAmp Plug-ins
Among others Songs-DB can use WinAmp2 plug-ins. There are some of them
distributed with Songs-DB by default, but you can also download some others
in order to enhance Songs-DB possibilities or improve audio quality.
All plug-ins need to be put to Songs-DB's plug-ins sub-directory
(usually C:\Program Files\Songs-DB\Plugins) and then it is necessary to
restart Songs-DB. When the plug-in comes with its own installer, you have to
change the path the installer suggests to the one above, or you can install
it elsewhere and copy the file (usually in_???.dll) to the correct path then.
WinAmp's site contains full range of existing plug-ins, you can
check them here or
download directly some of the recommended plug-ins below.
WinAmp3 plug-ins cannot be used so far, it is planned to some of the next
versions.
Some interesting plug-ins
MAD is a replacement for the internal MP3 decoding plug-in. It has very good
quality and speed, probably the best.
CD Reader is a freeware plugin to play audio
CDs with exceptional quality. It plays CD using digital extraction of audio samples,
thus no audio cable is necessary.
The plug-in lets you play video clips using Songs-DB.
It supports 11 types of video files: AVI, MPEG, MPG, MPV2, MPE, WMV,
ASF, DAT, IVF, VOB, DivX. Additional settings are called by
right mouse key on the video-window.
For example, you may change quality, aspect ratio (only DivX Pro Codec), brightness,
contrast and saturation of DivX movie having clicked right mouse key,
select "Properties" in pop-up menu > tab "Advanced" > "DivX Decoder Filter" and
press button "Properties". VID4WA home page: English - http://rc4wa.narod.ru,
Allows you to have more than one output plugin at a time, for example to listen
to music and at the same time convert it to an OGG Vorbis file.
Decodes mp3PRO files. This plugin allows to play mp3PRO files with full quality.
Plays Monkey's Audio Files (version 3.41).
Monkey's Audio is a popular lossless audio compression format.
For updates and info check http://www.monkeysaudio.com
Plug-in for playing MIDI files.