I made a little installer with some icons for different Audio formats.
Thru the installer you can selection which icons which format should use.

Make sure to read the installation instructions!
PS. You can only use this installer if you use winamp.

For Winamp2.xx

For Winamp3.xx

I did the default installation so left all boxes checked.
After installing, I saw the new icons for aac, flac, lpac, mpc, and ogg.
For ape, winamp's icon was gone and replaced by the default windows icon.
After restart, ape was again shown with winamp's icon, but also ogg's fish was replaced again by winamp's icon!
Also I see no new icon for shn.

Windows 2000 SP3, Winamp 2.81

Did the installer contain spyware: AAC - Spytel ?

Hans

Does it works with Winamp3?

thx

It seems to work without a reboot. Nice icons · thank you !

No... You'll have to do it manually for that. I might add support in the future if enough interest is shown.


HansHeijden: argh!! it seems to be because of winamp trying to regain the association because it is selected inside winamp.
The easy fix is to disable the formats from within winamp...
they will be assosiated with winamp anyway.
I'll look at a better fix for the installer later.

hmm....I have to somehow remove the extensions from the winamp.ini for it to work...

Currently I don't know how to do that so I advice that ppl remove the formats they want new icons for in the winamp format selection.

Yes, in my case need to remove association in winamp for ape, ogg, ofr and shn.

The ape icon is pretty dark, I like the one you find in Monkey's AudioResourcesMonkey.ico better.

Anyway thanks for this little gadget, a nice complementary with mp3ext !

Hans

Thanks you.
I added that icon too.

same link.

Thanks Jan. I don't need add "(MP3)" and "(Vorbis)" to folders anymore.

Nice work !

Why don't you let QAS to be another RareWares' mirror ?


Survey: Would you like an "HydrogenAudio webring" ?
(the links section is lacking)

Thank you. Glad you like it.
btw. if anyone should have any comments/suggestions/new icons please let me know.


qas is hosted at my brothers cable connection. Somehow I don't believe it can handle RareWares BandWidth


Wait

Thanks Jan, I have been looking for an easy way to achieve this effect!
Good job,works like a charm

Thank you!

Thanks,
I'm glad you all liked it.

I'm not at home for a couple of days or so but I can probably make an installer that works for winamp3 in a few days.

an uninstaller would be more important

Nice icon pack! Very very nice indeed...

Cheers
AgentMil

There is an uninstaller in the install-dir
You want start menu folder?


thanks AgentMil,
with all this positive feedback I'll look into making a more cool and if possible cross-player installer.

ah, must have missed it as I'm lazy. Just opened the start menu

I made a version for winamp3; it should work but I have not tested it.
Also there is a new installer but the functions are the same.

Links in original post.

Jan,

I've tried installing for winamp2 multiple times. No matter what I do, I can't get any icons to show up, only the default window icons. I've tried removing associations from winamp, uninstalling winamp, installing in program files, installing in winamp dir, installing in the root of c:. So far, haven't been able to get anything to work. Am I missing something, or am I complete idiot?

Hm...I have do idea. Maybe you could contact me on ICQ (157510469) and we could try figuring out what's wrong.
Looking in the registry to see the association and such...
btw.: all tricks and small bugs I know of are mentioned in the installers first page.

where in the reg to I find associations?

If we take ogg vorbis as an example you first look for the file-type associated with the extension.
You look in



to see which file-type the extension is for. If the installer worked correctly it should contain "Ogg Vorbis"; if it didn't it would only say "Winamp.File".
The you find the file-type fx. here:



Both those key's should say "Ogg Vorbis audio file"

Also it should contain:



which should say "$INSTDIR\icons.dll,0" where $instdir is the dir you those to install to.

Also under ogg vorbis it should have some keys like "shell\Play" and "shell\Enqueue".


Check if that is the case.

I've been feeling sick, so hopefully I'll get a chance to sort this out soon.

Jan,


Thanks, I did some digging in the registry, got it to work.

I was wondering if it maybe possible to add a mp3 or wav icon to the pack. That would make this my best download since EAC and LAME

You could add support for other associations as well.
If, say, .ogg is registered to be opened with other program (not Winamp), then you just follow from HKCR\.ogg to whatever key it points, rename it to "Ogg Vorbis" and write new DfltIcon value to it.
I do similar things myself to associate .ogm's with default video player (the one that plays .avi's).

Thanks a lot dreamliner77.

The reason I didn't add anything for mp3 is that mp3ext already does a much better job (can show bitrate and adds right-click info).
http://www.mutschler.de/mp3ext/

Regarding .wav I don't have any good idea for a good wav icon...if you have a good idea I can add it.

Jan, I don't know whether you would be interested, but if so I could e-mail you copies of what I use for a WAV icon. It's a modified "audio cassette" icon with a sort of gold-tone. (Yes, I know an image of an analog cassette isn't exactly the most appropriate for any digital audio format, but when I was trying to figure out how to visually separate my audio icons it was an easy one to remember. ) At any rate, the icon is made with multiple layers, and has dropped shadows when used with XP.

Do you have a separate zipped archive of the icons you used? The reason I never bothered to try your installer (despite the fact that it's a useful and creative application; I must give credit where due!) is that I've already done a number of manual customizations to my audio icons. But I would be interested in seeing what icons others are using, if you would make this available.

- M.

Yes, I would be interested in your wav icon (and any other nice audio-icon I could use), thank you.
jan@stanstrup.dk

I put up the audio-icons I have @ http://qas.stanstrup.dk/audioicons.rar

Jan,

I just tried the Icon Pack for the first time, and it works great - I just noticed one fault: MPC files got registered under the name "AAC audio file".

Apart from that - thumbs up!

Dominic

Hi Jan. I downloaded your icons and checked them out; it looks like many of them are bitmaps rather than true icon files. Would it be all right with you if I converted to true multilayer icons for each format? If so, I can send you a complete archive when it's finished and you'll have drop-shadows, etcetera for everything.

- M.

I would love to see some one write a program similar to mp3ext for ogg, mpc and others.

i agree

Thank you very much Dominic, anubis and everybody else.
I noticed that bug on my own machine and thought it was a fault on my own machine only since I couldn't find the problem in my installer. I found it now and fixed it. Installer updated.



Yes that would be great... Any improvement you dump in my lap are welcome

Working on 'em... and I had an idea. Rather than forcing the system to access each icon individually, have you played with icon libraries (*.icl)? These are similar to a DLL, in that the system can access multiple icons from the same file, by referencing an index point within the library. There used to be a program called IconPax (I used it long ago, on a 9x machine; support has been discontinued, but there's still a fan base) which did the same thing for system icons. The advantage of this approach is that if a user wanted to change their audio icon "theme," they could simply replace the entire ICL file rather than having to re-install and change their icon options.

At any rate, I'm working on updated versions of all the format-specific icons, as well as a "lossless" theme (if you go with the icon library idea, perhaps it would be good to separate the libraries into at least two files: lossless and lossy).

Once ready to submit, I'll e-mail you copies of everything.

- M.

Sounds great

Actually I do use a .dll file to hold all of the icons
It's in the dir you install to.

Secondly the NSIS released a few days ago gave me some new options and I think it can get mighty cool...but it look kinda tricky so it'll probably take some time for me to get ready.

Ah... I should have guessed you would. As I said before, I never tried your installer or I would have known this.

I'm close to 90% done with the new icons (I think). If I don't finish tonight, I'll try to have them done by tomorrow night.

- M.

No hurry, I'll not release anything till I can make a really cool installer. The new NSIS system is really different so I'll take some time before I figure it out.

Tuesday evening (Dec. 10), and I just sent you my current collection. Hope this helps with the project!

- M.

It does, thank you!
It find some time to finish the installer...it's getting a little complicated.

The new installer supports only ogg and mpc now...will add the rest when I find time and make the installer better...but for the ones that are interested it's here.

Thanks a lot to M and sacrat for the icons they sent me.

Feedback appreciated.

great


I like Winamp MP3 icon

but ogg vorbis...I personally don't like this icon , the fish look stupid



do you have Alpha channel my sucky machine just 24 bit --> i can't see it

Well, there were two vorbis icons...

And yes all the icons should contain alpha channel.

What system are you running, Mgz? I believe alpha-channels are only supported by Windows XP, and possibly some versions of Windows 2000 (?). But all of the new icons should contain the collowing resolutions: 16x16 (256 color), 16x16 (XP/alpha-channel), 32x32 (256 color), 32x32 (XP/alpha-channel), 48x48 (256 color) and 48x48 (XP/alpha-channel)

- M.

It turns out that the XP-xt style icons by sacrat does not have alpha channels.

Tested on my WinXP Pro system (SP0), works great. When I first installed it, I had to reboot to make the icons change. Subsequent reinstallation (after reboot) changed the icons instantly, but a third reinstallation right after that once again required a reboot.

I'm not sure what kind of alpha channel I'm supposed to see with the XP-xt icons; I didn't see a drop shadow or anything like that. I'm not sure if the main patch of color is supposed to be semi-transparent (I only viewed it on a white background).

A comment about XP-xt icons: they're nice, crisp and legible when I have the icons viewed medium-size, a bit blocky when I have large icons (due to interpolation... which the native XP icons don't suffer from), but illegible when the icons are small. Perhaps the size of the fonts could be increased for the scaled-down version of the icon. (If there is even a scaled-down version... is there just one general-size copy of the icon in the pack, scaled according to the display size?)

I like the clean install-program. A request, to make it easier for me to experiment with the icons (any one of the items will solve my problem):

• Have the installer make a simple registry entry remembering the installation path, so if I install the program again, it remembers where it was last installed, and types the path in automatically, or
  
• Make an icon-switcher applet so I don't have to re-run the installer to change the icons, or
  
• Show the icon in the installer when choosing versions from the drop-down box.

But these are nitpicks... the main benefit of this program is that it sorts by filetype in Explorer, rather than lumping everything into "Winamp media file", so I'm a happy customer.

As I said the XP-xt icons does not contain alpha channels. There were created by SacRat. If he adds alpha channels I will unclude it.
All the rest does however use alpha channels (minus 3 icons not yet used on the installer).
I put up the 3 icons without alpha channels here if someone wanna have a go.


I'm not much in to the icon work so SacRat will have to change the icons for it to happen.


To be sure what you want: You just want it to find the last used installation path so that you don't have to set the installation dir on each installation?
That would be very easy to add.


That would be very nice but unfortunately I'm not a programmer so I'm not the one for the job...even though it would be very cool...A proggy like mp3ext for every format would be nice too.


Yes, that is something I would really like to do but unfortunately I'm pretty sure that it's possible with NSIS.
I think a webpage with the icons when I'm done with the installer (shouldn't be long now) will have to do.


Anyway, thanks a lot for the feedback and suggestions, SometimesWarrior. It helps a lot.

Hi Jan, et al. If it's okay with SacRat and yourself, I could add alpha channels to his XP-xt icons and send them back to you. (Jan, you know where to send the originals if this is acceptable; SacRat, if you object I understand... just offering assistance if it's welcome. )

- M.

Hello Jan

Could u please add that good ol' wave format to audioicon ?

I'm tired to search them for hours because they're called "winamp media files" and have no specific icon.

Thx

Yep.
I already have the icons (and they are in the .dll with icons that are installed). I'll add it to the installer as soon as possible. Time is just not what I have most of right now, but sometime this weekend I should put out some new version with more formats (complete or not).