Windows Media Player

The machines we love to hate

Moderator: Wiz Feinberg

User avatar
Brian LeBlanc
Posts: 426
Joined: 5 May 2005 12:01 am
Location: Falls Church and Woodstock, Virginia, USA
State/Province: West Virginia
Country: United States

Windows Media Player

Post by Brian LeBlanc »

Is there a better program to play cuts for Practice?

ie, better control of song position
so I can go over a lick...
over & over again

probably covered here somewhere, but I cant find ...
'Frenchy' LeBlanc...
ShoBud & Twins
Top
User avatar
Chris Dorch
Posts: 490
Joined: 15 Feb 2010 3:55 pm
Location: Wisconsin, USA
State/Province: Wisconsin
Country: United States

Post by Chris Dorch »

Goldwave is nice.. allows you to set start and stop points... Slow it down without changing pitch... etc. It's not free tho..

I am sure there are some decent free one's out there...
Top
User avatar
James Martin (U.K.)
Posts: 539
Joined: 2 Nov 2004 1:01 am
Location: Watford, Herts, United Kingdom * R.I.P.
State/Province: -
Country: United States

Post by James Martin (U.K.) »

I use " Best Practice " and it's free.
Top
User avatar
Richard Sinkler
Posts: 17861
Joined: 15 Aug 1998 12:01 am
Location: Missoula
State/Province: Montana
Country: United States

Post by Richard Sinkler »

I use WinAmp. It's free for the "non - pro" version. it works good for me.

Although, Media Player was OK. The problem I find with Media Player, is I downloaded some YouTube videos of songs I had to learn, and Media Player wouldn't play some of them, yet WinAmp would.

Of course, being able to set start and stop points like mentioned above would be nice to be able to repeat the section over and over. WinAmp doesn't do this, although they have selections under the "Play" menu to jump forward or back 5 seconds (and I think that maybe the right and left arrow keys may be hot keys to do those functions). I find it easier just to drag the slider back.
Carter D10 8p/7k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup, Regal RD40 Dobro (D tuning), Recording King Professional Dobro (G tuning), NV400, NV112, Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open G slide and regular G tuning guitar) .

Playing for 55 years and still counting.
Top
User avatar
Wiz Feinberg
Posts: 6117
Joined: 8 Jan 1999 1:01 am
Location: Mid-Michigan, USA
State/Province: Michigan
Country: United States

Post by Wiz Feinberg »

Richard Sinkler wrote:I use WinAmp. It's free for the "non - pro" version. it works good for me.
Not to hijack your thread, but WinAmp is a target for crimeware exploit kits used by cyber criminals. It was recently updated to counteract a security flaw that could lead to complete system takeover. If you do use WinAmp, please check for updates every month, including right now.
"Wiz" Feinberg, Moderator SGF Computers Forum
Security Consultant
Twitter: @Wizcrafts
Main web pages: Wiztunes Steel Guitar website | Wiz's Security Blog | My Webmaster Services | Wiz's Security Blog
Top
User avatar
Richard Sinkler
Posts: 17861
Joined: 15 Aug 1998 12:01 am
Location: Missoula
State/Province: Montana
Country: United States

Post by Richard Sinkler »

Nice to know Wiz. I just did an update recently. I try to keep up with any updates, and thankfully, most programs nowadays sends info on updates to you.

Wiz... See new thread to find out more about the Winamp flaws. I don't want to veer this thread off topic too far.
Carter D10 8p/7k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup, Regal RD40 Dobro (D tuning), Recording King Professional Dobro (G tuning), NV400, NV112, Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open G slide and regular G tuning guitar) .

Playing for 55 years and still counting.
Top
User avatar
Graeme Jaye
Posts: 106
Joined: 30 Apr 2010 9:44 am
Location: Spain
State/Province: -
Country: United States

Re: Windows Media Player

Post by Graeme Jaye »

Brian LeBlanc wrote:Is there a better program to play cuts for Practice?
I've used Transcribe for quite a while now - http://www.seventhstring.com/ - not free, but does precisely what is needed.
Top

Return to “Computers”