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Leif and Everyone,
I’ve been lurking on this forum for the past 3 months now and have been using the breakaway web version. Previously, I have been using OctiMax in Winamp, which I thought was the best sound enhancer in comparison to all others. I have now checked out Breakaway only to see that there are grand improvements from the previous OctiMax developed by you.
The big reason I use OctiMax is to enhance my music for my IPOD. I put OctiMax as a plug-in in Winamp and then use a "LAME mp3 writer" plugin to encode a new mp3, but with improvements. The great thing about this is that Octimax works with the encoder (faster than real time) to produce the enhanced mp3 file which I later put on my IPOD.
I was trying to do the same thing with Breakaway, but it seems that as the encoder is working, Breakaway will not process the sound file and therefore I cannot get a new enhanced mp3 in anyway for my car.
Are there any suggestions you can provide me to overcome this record an enhanced mp3 for my car Audio. It sounds so much better with breakaway than having to put the volume up and down all the time.
Thank you very much for your time.
I would love to find out how do this. One way would be to use a program like "total recorder" to record "what u hear", but the problem is that you have to record in "real time" and you also have to separate each track (they are all recorded as a single track) and re-tag them manually.
Leif, commented on the second winamp plugin thread, that you can configure BA to work as "a plug in" for winamp only (instead of the complete system).
"When you install Breakaway, make sure to select Safe Mode. After that:
If you are using Vista:
Open Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, Sound. Select your sound card as the default device.
If you are using Windows XP:
Open Breakaway Settings, uncheck "Manage". Then, open the control panel, Sounds and Audio Devices, and select your sound card as the default device.
Finally, in Winamp, press CTRL-P, Output plug-ins, DirectSound output. Click Configure, and select Breakaway Pipeline as the audio output."I tought this was the answer to my prayers, but I have not figure out how to make the diskwriter plugin to record the output signal with BA, it records it as the regular signal (without BA). It seems that neither the diswriter of the filewriter plugins, can´t let you select with output device to record from.
Hope somebody knows how to accomplish this, as this is the main reason, I would like to have the BA plugin version for Winamp.
Cheers 😀
livelike,
Thanks for referring me to that previous post by Leif. I’m also not able to patch breakaway thru diskwriter. Using totalrecorder would be such a pain to re-encode the songs, then manually retag them and then put them on an mp3 player. Hopefully Leif has some input on this.
Hi gaicccp!
I agree that totalrecorder would not be a good long-term solution.
I get requests for some kind of disk writing function or a winamp plugin once in a while, but it seems like it would be a very low-volume product, which in turn means that it’s hard to justify taking time away from higher-volume products. I’m only one guy, so I have to manage my time as efficiently as I can.
That being said, it’s not impossible that there will be one in the future — but I’m afraid I can’t say when. 🙁
///Leif
Leif,
I understand your side of it as well. Hopefully Apple one day contacts you and pays you to implement Breakaway into their IPODs. That would truly be awesome!
Thanks for your time and an awesome product!
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