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I have a simple request: please restore the old interface of something similar to it. The sound is very good, better than BW Live in my opinion, but the interface is clunky and counter-intuitive.
Michi95, I did take the trouble to assemble your whole DSP stack – while still waiting for the Breakaway batch writing tool that would presumably spare us all this trouble – and found out it sounds pretty darn good. In fact, I am using it right now to preprocess my music collection in order to feed it into my IPod.
I couldn’t find a way to save the whole contraption, though, so that I could recover it straight away after rebooting. Do you know of a way to do just that? And I do miss the round full bass Breakaway provides. I guess to an audiophile’s ears it would look (or sound) a bit excessive, but it does sound good in my earphones. Would you know of a way to accomplish something similar using one of the tools in the chain?
Thanks.
Just to keep the thread alive: hi Leif, I’m still waiting (and hoping) for the batch processing feature, either as Winamp plugin or standalone. If you decide to offer it as a separate product, I would gladly pay for it all over again. Please!
Thanks for the prompt reply, Leif. Since you’ve shown interest in my suggestion – which, I believe, would be highly feasible commercially, as there are many people who have the same requirements as mine and, as far as I know, there is no product that does this explicitly and one has to resort to manual procedures to save processed music files – I have a couple of suggestions:
1. I have been using for years a product called dbPowerAmp for format conversion. It is (mostly) free, very easy to use (no need to open the program, you just right-click on the file or group of files) and can convert to/from practically any format available, lossless or not, with excellent quality. On top of that, it has a DSP feature that allows stacking processors to be applied to the converted audio. Should you wish to avoid the batch processing programming chore, perhaps Breakaway could just be added to dbPowerAmp’s DSP library. In my opinion, it would be even better than having it as a Winamp DSP or a standalone converter because of the conversion flexibility dbPowerAmp affords.
2. Should you really add the disk writing/batch conversion feature, it would be clever to add a signalling byte somewhere in the converted file to turn off subsequent processing by Breakaway when it is played back in a Breakaway-equipped computer. Presently I have to maintain two sets of files – unprocessed ones to be played with my DSP-charged Winamp and processed ones to be used only with external players. It would be great to have a processor that detects already processed audio and simply keeps out of the way. Again, it would be a very useful feature that apparently doesn’t exist anywhere.
