|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
97.90.19.153
In Reply to: RE: cMP - the open source high-end Memory Player posted by cics on December 30, 2007 at 05:42:01
Hi guys.
I apologize. I have read SOME of the posts and SOME of the manual, so maybe I just have not read far enough.
I have progressed from one computer to another and from XP to Vista 64 to Windows 7 64.
At one point I used cMP and would see it stop a number of windows services before it started. I now have cPlay 2.0b37 installed and functioning.
OK to the question. Does cPlay 2.0b37 obviate the need for cMP, or include some of its features?
Thanks for the response.
Bruce
Follow Ups:
No.The two things are quite different. cMP sets up the environment for which a music player (like cPlay or Foobar for that matter) operates. cPlay will operate without cMP (as cMP it is not mandatory) but I can say from my own experience that cPlay really benefits from cMP's addition. The problem will be that cMP will effectively neuter the machine for other uses. It is not a problem if you want the best audio playback.
HTH.
Edits: 08/16/10
HTH,
Thank you for the response. That makes it a bit clearer.
I do ONLY use the computer in question for audio playback, so cMp will be fine.
However, after I start cMp 1.2, I can't figure out how to get cPlay 2.0b37 to start. I do have cMp set to not load ram.
Any suggestions?
Thanks again to down under.
Bruce, LA, Calif.
Have you checked out this web site? It has details on how to configure cMP and cPlay:
http://www.cicsmemoryplayer.com/cMP will require .cue files to work. If you don’t know what .cue files are then read the doco here:
http://www.cicsmemoryplayer.com/index.php?n=CMP.11CMPShellRead the doco here to tell you how to get cMP to invoke cPlay:
http://www.cicsmemoryplayer.com/index.php?n=CMP.12UsingCPlayNow, if you don’t want to use .cue files then you will not be able to use cMP. You can, however, use cPlay as standalone player without cMP or .cue files. In "cPlay settings" you uncheck cMP which will enable windows explorer button (bottom left) on the cPlay screen. From here you can select the .wav or .flac file you want to play and off you go.
BTW. Your music files are in .wav or .flac format are they not?
Edits: 08/17/10
Thank you for the links.
I have used cmp and later cplay for about two years, but had not dug into the documentation.
Your links helped greatly.
I just printed out both guides in their entirety, and the forum indices.
I certainly have some reading to do. I have about 400 CD's ripped to my hard drive with as full bandwidth wav files, using EAC and I have a cue sheet for each. I did not rip as individual tracks. In retrospect, that might have been better.
Here is my virtual system at Audiogon
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vevol&1200440547&view
Bruce
If you do want to switch to individual tracks, try using EAC Tools > "Split WAV by CUE sheet". It's very quick. Then throw away the new cue sheets that EAC makes, and make a new ones with Al Jordan's RecursiveCueCreator - also very quick.
Seger,
Thanks for the bit of info. I have wanted to build a play list for cPlay that would contain 10 or more tracks from individual albums, but could not figure out how to do that with my full album waves.
When I am evaluating a tweak or change in my system I currently have to play a few tracks from one album then close that album and go back to the browser for the next album and cut I need.
The info you have given me, I think, will make it easy to make a single play list that will load all the tracks into one cPlay screen.
Thanks again.
Bruce
Re: “ ..as full bandwidth wav files.. ”
Well, that is what I do!
You could conduct an experiment of ripping both ways on a particular CD and then playback to see if you can hear a difference. I think I can and hence my preference.
Your system looks great!
Audio Bling
Thanks for the system comment, if you like the way it looks, you ought to hear it!
I never thought about there being any difference in the playback sound of the CD whether ripped as a single wav or individual wav's for each track.
When my internet surfing and reading got me on to black CD copies sounding better I downloaded a copy of EAC and ripped all my CD's as single waves, for archiving and to allow easy recreation of the CD on black blanks.
Further reading got me interested in computer playback. My thinking, if the Black CD sounded better then going back one more step and not using an optical interface (laser), but rather playing from the hard drive ought to be even better.
I am an inveterate tweaker, and have a number of track I use for evaluating a change in the system. In foobar 0.8.3 (the best sounding player I had, before stumbling across cMp/cPlay) it was easy to make a play list of just the tracks I wanted.
I, on occasion, wanted to burn a CD with just those tracks, but never got into the process deeply enough to figure out how to do that.
With the reply I received from seger I now know how to split my full wav's into tracks.
Alright.
I do have it working. Here is how I did it.
I opened cMp. I used the explorer button at the top to the left to get to the C: drive and then to the location where cPlay 2.0b37 is. I then open cPlay.
At first I had checked the box in cPlay to not allow the explorer to open because of the potential for a cMp lock up.
That obviously kept me from navigating to my music files. After I unchecked the "no explorer box" the "folder" was not grayed out, and I could navigate to all my music.
Have I done this correctly?
Is there a better, more efficient way to accomplish this?
Again thanks for your initial post that cleared up some of my confusion.
Bruce
Post a Followup:
FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: