I need a little help from the community.
Media File Formats.
Friday, September 19, 2008 by Vad_M | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hi Friends,
I work on a new powerful Media Player right now. And I need the detailed information about popular media file formats (audio, video) that you use on your computers to complete the Integrated Media Library for this project. So please give me a list of extensions for media files you have in your libraries (like mp3, avi, ogg, flac, m4a, etc...)
This will much help me to make very useful Media Player for you.
Thank for you attention.
Reply #3 Friday, September 19, 2008 10:50 AM
here is a list of the major file types from WinAmp 5.0
CDA MPG MPEG M2V AVI FLAC FLV MID MIDI RMI KAR MIZ MP3 MP2 MP1 AAC VLB M4A MP4 NSV NSA SWF OGG AUD WMA WMV ASF M3U M3U8 PLS B4S WPL ASX mod mdz nst wav w64 voc raw avr au amf far stm stz s3m it itz xm xmz mtm ult 669 okt ptm aiff caf htk iff mat paf pvf sd2 sds sf xi
I'm not knowledgable enough to know which of all these are essential and which are near obsolete.
Reply #4 Friday, September 19, 2008 10:54 AM
Hey Vad_M, check this Wikipedia page for some info 
Reply #5 Friday, September 19, 2008 11:07 AM
I think if you are making a powerful new media player you should mabye know the answer to this?
Reply #6 Friday, September 19, 2008 11:11 AM
Big thanks for the first replies!
I'm not assured that this Player may replace iTunes for you. It just more informative than habitual Windows Media Player and can work with *.PLS playlists. And may be it looks a bit better and uses less system resources (like CPU). No more than this. I just try to make it more useful (as much as this possible) for each person who want to download and use it.
Now I'll go to learn what formats can play iTunes...
Are you keeping your music in a *.wav format? Hmmm... Seems this type of files is not friendly for tagging. What about information tags?
Reply #7 Friday, September 19, 2008 11:18 AM
WOW!!!! Thank you BigDogBigFeet! Your reply is very helpful!
Thank you but I don't need the whole list of all media formats. I just need to know WHAT THE TYPE OF MEDIA FILES ARE USUALLY USED BY WC PEOPLE IN THEIR MEDIA LIBRARIES.
Reply #8 Friday, September 19, 2008 11:42 AM
Here are some common ones on my pc: wma wav mp3 asx wpl m3u m4a wmv ogg avi There might be some others in my games but I've checked pretty good. I don't have very much video just some audio files.
Reply #9 Friday, September 19, 2008 11:51 AM
This is finally the information that I really need!!!! Thank you!!!!
Reply #10 Friday, September 19, 2008 1:19 PM
I'm glad I could help Vad_M. I am hoping that others who read this, especially those who have music and/or video libraries, will be willing to take a look at their own PCs and add to this short list the file formats they have.
Reply #11 Friday, September 19, 2008 6:55 PM
Hi Vad_M. These are what I found on my system:<br><br>CDA MPG MPEG M2V AVI FLAC FLV MID MIDI MP3 MP2 SWF OGG WMA WMV wav aiff
Reply #12 Friday, September 19, 2008 6:58 PM
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Hi Vad_M. These are what I found on my system:
CDA MPG MPEG M2V AVI FLAC FLV MID MIDI MP3 MP2 SWF OGG WMA WMV wav aiff
Reply #13 Friday, September 19, 2008 7:14 PM
THANK YOU!!! Seems it will be a little poll like: What type of sound files are listen the WC members on their PC?
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Reply #1 Friday, September 19, 2008 10:17 AM
I am using iTunes. How can I use this instead of the boring iTunes player? Thanks.