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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Crowwe on August 12, 2003, 08:05:00 AM

Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: Crowwe on August 12, 2003, 08:05:00 AM

I bet you're thinking I need help with Vox. Well, not really...

Okay, I'm nuts but I want to have access to winamp while playing Aces High. I've tried putting it 'on top' of AH, I've tried changing the key settings without success.

Simply put, is there a way to access Winamp player without having to alt-tab out of AH? For example, forwarding playlists and such?

Thanks in advance.

Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: Crowwe on August 15, 2003, 12:22:44 PM

I take it I should give up on this endeavor?

Anyone?

Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: flakbait on August 15, 2003, 12:42:44 PM

What kinda sound card do you have? Older cards and some AC97 chipsets won't let you do that.




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Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: Crowwe on August 15, 2003, 03:08:15 PM

I have a Sound Blaster Live card, but I can get the music to play fine, its just I can't get the Winamp interface to be available while in AH.

Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: Skuzzy on August 15, 2003, 03:44:22 PM

DirectX takes over the top most window, so you will not be able to see any Windows applications while the game is running.

Also a note;  Running sound programs in the background can cause some oddities in a DirectX game, as DirectX does not take kindly to its hardware being used by other applications.  Manifestations can range from graphics stutters to crashes to desktop.

Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: Crowwe on August 16, 2003, 04:48:00 PM

I've run WinAmp for a long time in the background without any problems, except for the one time I hit 'B' to forward to playlist before I was completely alt-tab'd and I came back to half of my ammo gone. :D

Well, if there is no way this is going to happen, perhaps I could run my MP3 player through the auxillary port of my sound card. Problem with this is the mic doesn't like it. I think I'm cursed :)

Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: llama on August 17, 2003, 11:56:26 AM

There IS a winamp plugin on the site that lets you control the player even though it is not in the foreground. It works well (before the iPod, I used this plugin all the time). So it is possible.

That said, I have a hard time imagining what keys you could use for the Winamp controls that aren't already used for AH controls already.

-Llama

Title: need help with inflight radio
Post by: Estes on August 17, 2003, 12:24:12 PM

I have a question.  I don't use Winamp, but I use Musicmatch JB plus, and my keyboard has the media buttons that will allow me to turn volume up, down, next song, play stop, etc.,  Would that work when I am in the game, if so would it cause any complications?


Works when on the desktop.