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Holy fucking shit. After all the decades I've been using Winamp, I had no fucking clue until now that you could simply change its output via the "Nullsoft Disk Writer" plugin to write to a file instead of playing to speaker as normal. At first, I only had .wav available for output, which still would have been okay, since I could have manually converted them to .mp3 with Audacity, but then I found that it was an ludicrously simple thing to install the proper LAME codec so that Winamp would output them as .mp3 files directly, instead of just .wav files. Apparently, it will do the same with .flac or whatever as well, if that's more your cup of tea these days and you have the proper codec and all. I'm more old school and prefer .mp3, myself.
Anyway, the upshot to all of this is that I can now simply load all those video game files (e.g. .spc files for SNES music) and convert them to mp3 soundtracks super easy now (and, as a result, listen to said soundtracks a lot more frequently than I have in the past). Granted, you need to already have the proper plugins and dll files and shit to let Winamp play those kind of things in the first place, but I've had that shit for years. I'd done some spc->mp3 conversions and such in the past, but it was always kind of like pulling teeth, as I'd had to jump through esoteric hoops to do it in a more manual, hands-on kind of way. No longer.
It took maybe 10-15 minutes (if even that much, since I wasn't really keeping a close eye on the time) for Winamp to convert the entire three and half hour long EarthBound .spc gamerip soundtrack into .mp3 files (189 files total, a lot of which are just sound effect shit that I'll probably delete... though I may find some use for some of those as alert noises on my new phone, maybe). That would have likely taken multiple hours if I'd done it the more manual way I used to do it. Fucking hell, I wish I'd known about this years ago. -_-;
Well then, in any case, I know what I'm probably going to be doing for the next day or so now.TomorrowLater today, though, as it's already well after 3:00am as I type this.
Anyway, the upshot to all of this is that I can now simply load all those video game files (e.g. .spc files for SNES music) and convert them to mp3 soundtracks super easy now (and, as a result, listen to said soundtracks a lot more frequently than I have in the past). Granted, you need to already have the proper plugins and dll files and shit to let Winamp play those kind of things in the first place, but I've had that shit for years. I'd done some spc->mp3 conversions and such in the past, but it was always kind of like pulling teeth, as I'd had to jump through esoteric hoops to do it in a more manual, hands-on kind of way. No longer.
It took maybe 10-15 minutes (if even that much, since I wasn't really keeping a close eye on the time) for Winamp to convert the entire three and half hour long EarthBound .spc gamerip soundtrack into .mp3 files (189 files total, a lot of which are just sound effect shit that I'll probably delete... though I may find some use for some of those as alert noises on my new phone, maybe). That would have likely taken multiple hours if I'd done it the more manual way I used to do it. Fucking hell, I wish I'd known about this years ago. -_-;
Well then, in any case, I know what I'm probably going to be doing for the next day or so now.
