New version of M4P plugin (memory leak fixed)

[housecor]

Originally posted by 75th Trombone
I recently updated to Winamp 5.09. I also recently updated to Quicktime 7. Now the iTunes plugin doesn't work. It acts like it's playing the file, the track progress bar ticks along normally, but there's zero volume.

Any idea what the problem is there?

Thanks,
SFT

Same problem here too. I tried uninstalling Quicktime 7 and installing QT 6 but that didn't fix the Winamp issue and broke iTunes6. Somehow I doubt Apple broke this by chance.

[eurocard]

it works

until i find something, it works good !
thxs

eurocard

[housecor]

EDIT>> Sorry, just tried reinstalling the latest version of the plugin and it works like a charm again! Couldn't be happier! So glad to have Winamp back.

[DJ Egg]

According to eurocard, who posted only 3 days ago, the plugin still works. And according to the first post in the thread, the attached plugin has been downloaded over 65,500 times, and I don't see any of those people coming here to say it no longer works.

There's nothing to stop ThomasW from still developing the plugin, though alas the submitted version was removed from the winamp.com/plugins database due to some legal issues (apparently someone wasn't happy about winamp being able to play protected itms m4p files, or something along those lines).

[gameplaya15143]

Originally posted by DJ Egg (7 months ago)
impo, MP4/M4A/AAC is badly overrated, and Lame_Enc --alt-preset standard mp3 is still the better option . . . or even better to use Ogg Vorbis or FLAC

The only AAC format I've been impressed with so far is AacPlus, but only from a streaming aspect (ie. high(er) quality at low bitrates).

aac and mp3 are on par, vorbis is superior.. and you cant compare lossy to lossless (flac)

aac+sbr is good for streaming, i agree there, but its more like decent quality at low bitrates, i dont think 'high quality' is the right description

**downloaded plugin, i cant use it though (aint got no m4p junk), figured i'd just get it while i can

[kip2001]

A couple of weeks ago this plugin stopped playing all my purchased iTunes songs, I re-installed it, the upgraded iTunes and Quicktime, tried re-installing winamp... but it still doesn't work, I double-click an iTunes song in my library and it just starts playing the next song that is not an iTunes song or randomly selects one if I'm on shuffle. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kip

[The Goat]

It is probably because

1) You upgraded to iTunes 6 and bought a song, then authorized your computer (itunes 6 uses new encryption now)

or

2) The Plug-in only works for iTunes 4 and earlier

...most likely the first one

[kip2001]

Thanks, so is there anyway to get the songs to play now or do I have to use iTunes?

[housecor]

Originally posted by kip2001
Thanks, so is there anyway to get the songs to play now or do I have to use iTunes?

I had to uninstall/reinstall itunes & quicktime then reinstall the winamp plugin to get it to work. I'm running itunes 6 and Winamp 5.11 and had the same problem as you until I did the above.

[kip2001]

Originally posted by housecor
I had to uninstall/reinstall itunes & quicktime then reinstall the winamp plugin to get it to work. I'm running itunes 6 and Winamp 5.11 and had the same problem as you until I did the above.

I'm using the latest iTunes and Winamp 5.12 and just tried that... still doesn't work.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks,
Kip

[kip2001]

Ok, I fixed the problem, I used JHymn to convert all the files to mp3

[moktoman]

WTF?
JHymn is said to not currently work with the new iTunes 6 encoding. How did you convert those files to MP3?

[Bodhi_UV]

Caracters

Hi there,

this plug-in is just what I needed. Many thanks and huge congratulations.

I have got one question though:
artists like Tiësto and Röyksopp bought on ITMS (m4p) appears in Winamp like this:

Tiësto and Röyksopp as I don't want to edit them via Winamp, has anybody any suggestions to fix this ?

Thanks again

[kernelh4x0r]

Originally posted by moktoman
WTF?
JHymn is said to not currently work with the new iTunes 6 encoding. How did you convert those files to MP3?

Search google for QTFairUse6 ... should give you what you want, works with iTunes 6.0.4 and 6.0.5, removes DRM, leaves you with .m4a, which you can convert to .mp3 if you wish.

[moktoman]

Thank you God!

Originally posted by kernelh4x0r
Search google for QTFairUse6 ... should give you what you want, works with iTunes 6.0.4 and 6.0.5, removes DRM, leaves you with .m4a, which you can convert to .mp3 if you wish.

kernelh4x0r, YOU ARE DA BOMB!!!
(excuse the old slang terminology, but it seemed so right...)
Thanks for the information!!
I am going to put that program to good use ASAP!!!
THANK YOU!!!