| I Want My MP3!!! -Tido - Sep 12 09:35am | |
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John Williams is an amazing composer. I think we can all agree that the Star Wars soundtrack resides in a special place in our hearts. I also think that if I hear it one more time, I’ll have a hemorrhage. If you disagree and enjoy playing JK3 to a never-ending cycle of SW songs, then save yourself the time of reading this article and go write some random comments in people’s profiles or whatever else you do here. For the rest of you who want to be able to enjoy your controversial mp3 collection while you play, read on. I feel for all of you who have tried to find a way to make a CFG play mp3s just like I did. A whole lot of time wasted away. Some of you are using killtrackers to play your mp3s, but are finding yourself in conflict with the rules on those scripts. If only there was a way to bind to your keyboard a play, pause, next, and previous button that would play a nice selection of your mp3s and run it in the background without taxing your system. Well start licking my boots because I found a way. First off, if you don’t already have it, go download Winamp – a very small and streamlined mp3 player that you will love. It’s free and the file size is around 2 megabytes. I’m not going to cover how to use all of Winamp because it’s easy to understand and everything you need to know is on that site – no need to reinvent the wheel. Winamp has a really neat feature about it called Global Hotkeys. This allows you to set keys or combination of keys to control the player from anywhere with just your keyboard – even in JK3. In Winamp, look in the very top-left corner and you will see a symbol that looks like a slanted infinity sign. Click that and then select Options -> Preferences (or while Winamp is selected, press Ctrl+P). In Winamp Preferences look under General Preferences for Global Hotkeys. Make sure that the ‘enabled’ box is checked. You are now ready to start setting your keys. Figure1, Figure2 To set your Play button, select it from the list of functions. Then click in the textbox at the bottom labeled Hotkey. Now hit the button or combination of buttons (example: Ctrl+uparrow) you want the function to be assigned to. You should see the button(s) appear in the textbox. Next push the ‘Set’ button to apply the setting. Go through what commands you want and assign the keys. After you close the Preferences window, the keys should start working. I highly recommend using a combination of keys (I use Ctrl + my arrow keys) because otherwise when trying to do something else, you will start sending a ton of commands to Winamp. Figure3 That’s really it. It’s a very simple thing to do, and it’s great to be able to listen to other things without jumping in and out of JK3. A few other tips would be to set your Winamp volume to 25% because you want the music to be background music and not overpower important sounds of the game. I also want to warn you against playing really sad or mellow songs as you will lose all desire to defeat your opponent, deactivate your saber, and wish that /amhug was enabled. Keep Rawking! |
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Tido - Student 
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For those of you with slower computers like myself, I recommend using the old winamp skin, not the new one. The new skin has a lot more in it and tends to affect fps while the old one hardly effects me at all. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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Quote: for those of you who dont use windoze, I can only suggest to use iTunes (and for the windows users as well), XMMS, and the newly released Beep-Media-Player, the latter 2 for the *IX platform, respectively. BMP is based upon XMMS, but features gtk2 widget and font rendering support. its the most beautiful interface i have ever seen. *shameless plug*  Every time I see XMMS' default skin, I get this weird feeling down my back that I'm using a Linux port of Winamp... or maybe the other way around... :/ _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Anakin Skywalker - Student 
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Quote: Found out that if you say Always on Top (windows settings - docked tool bar - always on top) you can see Winamp over JK3 when in full screen. You can see the winamp windows at the top I suggest you minimise the windows so you can see the game. I just have the Main Window and Play list up so i can see the song name. Not sure about performance tried it a few times and it seems good. Thanks alot ROan! ive had winamp for a long time, and i never knew that.  _______________  {MOTS}Masters Of The Sith
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Mic Den Octela - Student 
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Quote: Luckily I have these previous/next/play/stop and volume buttons on the top of my keyboard, works greate .But if not then I'd prolly do it like this as well  . Me too _______________ -Padawan of Virtue -Brother of Menaxia, *|irael, Krynn Adept, Majno, Ris Win Juljul, DaMi3N, Beowulf, Dash Starlight, Carrock and Yuken Zalak Bartender at Munes bar. Sir Mic of Nippledom! Proudly beating Wang, since '07. (Crackdown) |
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Cuban - Student |
also guys if your looking for a media player that plays with way less ram than winamp you can go to foobar2000.org it's an awesome player |
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Devlin - Student 
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awesome _______________ Be at peace, and you will discover things you never dreamed possible. |
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Thomasooo - Student 
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This is really helpful! You just won't stop ruling, will ya, Tido?! _______________ In the navy and LOVING it!
Recipient of comment no. 1000 and heart-warming words from Ataris!
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SilkMonkey - Distributor of Cold Ones 
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If you have NNScript, you can use the player in IRC too. Less performance hit on your game. _______________ |-HK-47 -SilkMonkey: You are receiving a warning for being_too_sexy. If you do not stop, action will be taken against you.|| (11:13:43) � Virtue dances for Silk ||Smiling owner of Smilykrazy's 6000th comment =) ||Odan Wei's Proud Big Brother|| Janus is my official TaruTaru Cuddly Animal Type Person. ||(@Virtue) Or you could just be a man and set fire to your genitals.....you won't fall asleep for days after that.......trust me.||Thomas Skywalker er for sexy for sitt eget beste!!!!| Not changing sig until the JA loosens up. (Started: Aug 31, 2005) |
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Tido - Student
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I never thought of that Roan, neat! I also want to mention that what skin you use will affect your performance. If you use a very complicated and flasy skin, you may see a noticable drop in your FPS. All depends on how good your computer is I guess (mine = teh suxage). This comment was edited by Tido on Sep 15 2004 05:14pm. |
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DJK - Student 
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Quote: Found out that if you say Always on Top (windows settings - docked tool bar - always on top) you can see Winamp over JK3 when in full screen. You can see the winamp windows at the top I suggest you minimise the windows so you can see the game. I just have the Main Window and Play list up so i can see the song name. Not sure about performance tried it a few times and it seems good. Thanks alot ROan! ive had winamp for a long time, and i never knew that. |
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Tido - Student
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works for audio CDs too if you take em out after you load the game  . |
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3th - Retired 
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if i had any mp3's on my pc Tido, i would LOVE you for this _______________ this is the internet, be serious damn it! |
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Cyb - Student 
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Luckily I have these previous/next/play/stop and volume buttons on the top of my keyboard, works greate . But if not then I'd prolly do it like this as well . _______________ ~~ Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none! ~~ |
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Roan Belouve - Retired 
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Found out that if you say Always on Top (windows settings - docked tool bar - always on top) you can see Winamp over JK3 when in full screen. You can see the winamp windows at the top I suggest you minimise the windows so you can see the game. I just have the Main Window and Play list up so i can see the song name. Not sure about performance tried it a few times and it seems good. _______________ *Bro to Vaxxla,Padawan of FiZZandOdan-Wei Part of the mighty Belouve Dynasty-Knight of Nippledom.Twin of Selphestal!**Proud Master to Kaelis and Acura Friend to anyone who would call me the same . Pic by the amazing Majno (merry)
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Carve - Student 
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Personally, I like listening to Bluegrass banjo music on shoutcast while I duel... But that's just me. _______________ © |
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DJK - Student
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Winamp rule so does Blaze Media Pro |
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Urded - Student 
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yay winamp _______________ Mapper a la strange. Proud owner of SilkMonkey Award for Wishing He Had Menaxia's Best IRC Smile Award. A Penguin Jedi is Me! |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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for those of you who dont use windoze, I can only suggest to use iTunes (and for the windows users as well), XMMS, and the newly released Beep-Media-Player, the latter 2 for the *IX platform, respectively. BMP is based upon XMMS, but features gtk2 widget and font rendering support. its the most beautiful interface i have ever seen. *shameless plug* _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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Roan Belouve - Retired 
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As much as I love the SW music I'll give this a go. There was a mod for JK2 that allowed you to scroll through music within the game that was pretty cool but not managed to get it working in JK3. _______________ *Bro to Vaxxla,Padawan of FiZZandOdan-Wei Part of the mighty Belouve Dynasty-Knight of Nippledom.Twin of Selphestal!**Proud Master to Kaelis and Acura Friend to anyone who would call me the same . Pic by the amazing Majno (merry)
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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WINAMP W00000000000T! _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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Winamp 2 is not bad. _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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Henkes - Student 
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Nice Job Tido, allthough I already used the function _______________ Get on your feet and do the Funky Alfonzo! |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
WinAMP 2 is ugleh. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Indeed, fantastic _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Rinzler - Student 
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nice article tido _______________ I fite for teh usars!1 |
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