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In Reply to: RE: cPlay - the open source high-end audio player using ASIO posted by cics on May 05, 2008 at 12:31:58
Hello, everybody. Here is a nice discovery. As some inmates know, I am using a cplay.exe that was extremely heavily modded in resource hacker. In fact this is all I see, after I double click on an album in cmp: see pic - no controls. even to stop I have to click on close window x
So it happened that today I decided to check if it is shlwapi.dll that is needed by cplay and NOT needed by cmp, and after I deleted and booted, everything worked. I mean there was no usual jump-out-of cplay without this dll. I REALLY do not know if it is a by-product of the new cmp file or the hacking of cplay, but if You want to try, just e-mail me and I will send You my cplay.exe (2.exe) that works with the new cicsMemoryplayer.exe and allows to delete shlwapi.dll. Without it and the Winspool.drv (I hope You already deleted it) the Windows folder is only 15,5 mb.
Serge.
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Hello Serge (and all you other DLL Exterminators)
What a pleasant surprise when I deleted SHLWAPI.DLL from my cMP... the effect of removing WINSPOOL.DRV has been amplified by this change. It seems as though dynamic contrasts are laid bare with even greater precision - mostly a good thing (I'd rather know when a recording has "too much sauce" than not be able to tell, for lack of playback veracity).
However, "be careful what you wish for" has already occurred... in listening to a new favourite tune, it's obvious they hit the compressor(s) a little too hard in the chorus(es) - bed tracks and verses breathe just fine, but everything slams into a brick wall when they go into the refrain. Too bad, but now I know (...their previous album did not suffer from this choice).
Of course, these things are most apparent in the middle of the night, when the local power lines are calm and quiet.
Funny Serge that you suspect a link between 256-color mode and dropping SHLWAPI.DLL. The JW-Home recipe recommends 256-color setting, and so I've been set that way since long ago. If only I'd known...
Thanks for the tip !
Cheers,
Grant
That's not a Toy... IT'S A TOOL !!
It may be we can delete this dll now, after setting all files to use 256 colors? - I have read today somewhere that this dll is somehow responsible for color settings.
Serge.
Did you try deleting with a bit more functionality in cplay such as vol/phase/pause? I have determined I need these but would certainly like to rid my system32 of shlwapi.
Thanks again Serge
OOps I think I like shlwapi back in for sonic reasons. Deleted it sounds a bit edgy. Sonics improve with it placed back in system32 folder.
While eliminating shlwapi can produce some edgy highs it is primarily with files tending that way. What is not in dispute is that eliminating shlwapi produces a stronger overall sound imo. I had not yet eliminated one of my 2 krnl's in system32 so I decided to try that with shlwapi deleted...everything seems to fall in place now...so far.
I should know better than to question Serge!!
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