MP3 Decoder plugin for Winamp

[wfbberzerker]

does anyone know the name of the plugin for winamp that supposedly made mp3's sound better?

thanks

 

[Ameesh]

winamp is a mp3 decoder why would you need a plugin in on top of that? 😕

 

[LiQiCE]

Are you talking about the Wow Equalizer plug-in for Winamp 2.xx which does absolutely nothing but make your music sound worse? Or are you referring to the old Nitrane MP3 decoder made by Nullsoft which was later found to contain stolen code from another MP3 decoder?

 

[murphy55d]

this is the one I use.

 

[Sid59]

audio enhancers suck! you are warping the musician's idea of music.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
this is the one I use.

Ditto....I can tell a HUGE difference between this plugin and the default Winamp Equalizer settings.

 

[hominid skull]

Originally posted by: Sid59
audio enhancers suck! you are warping the musician's idea of music.

 

[BennyD]

i think you mean the mad decoder (supposedly best mp3 quality evar)
coolplayer uses the mad decoder and owns winamp

 

[Goi]

Try the Shibatch Sampling Rate Convertor(SSRC) plugin. It uses a high quality algorithm to upsample audio. Even if your soundcard doesn't support above 48KHz sampling rate, you can use it to upsample to 48KHz from 44.1KHz, bypassing the inferior algorithm that most soundcards use to do it in order to obtain AC97 compliancy.

Alternatively, if your soundcard supports ASIO, try the Winamp ASIO plugin. These provide bit-perfect output, bypassing everything, even the Windows kmixer. The latest versions have upsampling support too, but CPU utilization is pretty high.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I know alot of people rave about the MAD plugin.

 

[Jojo1971]

SHIBATCH EQ IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have been using it for 4 yrs now...DEEP BASS and NICE TREBLE>>>