Performing other tasks whilst running FS

[jaimevelasco]

Hello everybody:
Is there a way to listen to music on your PC whilst flying FS? I open FS, then I Alt+Tab to open media player, and I start the music. So I have both in the taskbar. If I try to go to FS again, it tries to open for a sec, but then it minimizes inmediately, and also if pressing Alt+Tab again. I have tried with "pause on task switch" selected and unselected.
What am I doing wrong, or is it not possible? I also had the same problem when trying to open Fsscreen with FS sarted.
Thanks,
Jaime

[Cactus521]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-14-02 AT 07:40PM (EDT)[/font][p]I use media player with .m3u files. An .m3u file is simply a text file playlist with a listing of filenames. It can even be automatically generated. Let's say you have a few dozen mp3's, and you want media player to cycle through them. Go to the folder where the mp3's reside, then go to a DOS prompt, and type this command:

dir *.mp3 /b >playlist.m3u

You then open the playlist with media player, and it will cycle through the songs. Or you can open it in notepad, and delete what you don't want to hear...

John
KPHX

P.S. Another thing...If you have trouble alt/tabbing or moving back to FS2002, try clicking it once on the task bar, then press Alt/Enter....

[mharney]

Possible, but who would want to steal processor cycles from the sim ??

Home PC's are for flight simming, all those other applications are just fluff. :-)

[jaimevelasco]

Thanks cactus, I´ll try it
Happy flying,
Jaime

[wileyecoyote]

>Home PC's are for flight simming,
>all those other applications are
>just fluff. :-)

Now, if I only could get my programming teacher to accept this... :-)

Regards,

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[bjratchf]

I have this problem also- I cannot have two "Streams" of sound.. if flightsim is running I can't start realplayer or Winamp. The other way doesn't work either- if I have Realplayer running I canot start flightsim as it gives me a message that the soundcard is in use. I mainly would want to run both at teh same time to get the Realplayer LiveStream of KJFK ATC- which is better than even the best random wav players!



Brendan Ratchford
CEO, GlobeLink Aviation Group AG
http://globelinkva.tripod.com

[markmarkmark]

Could you explain that with the DOS prompt in plain English? Step-by-step instructions? I hove no knowledge about these computer thingys (exept how to start FS) Thanks for your help.

[wileyecoyote]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-02 AT 09:41AM (EDT)[/font][p]Alrighty, let's give it a shot.

1. Open windows explorer (start -> programs -> windows explorer) and use it to go to the folder in which your mp3s reside.
2. Make a note of the line in the address bar (on paper), or leave windows explorer open and proceed to 3.
3. Open the MS-DOS/Command prompt. Easiest way to do is to click Start, then Run. WinXP users: type CMD. WIN98/ME users: type COMMAND.
4. Type X:, where you should substitute X for the driveletter on which you mp3s reside (the very first letter of the address of point 2).
5. Type cd\. This navigates you to the root of that drive.
6. Type cd followed by a space and than the line of point 2, minus the first 3 characters. E.G.: cd mp3. BTW: if you cannot see windows explorer's address bar, move and/or resize the command prompt.
7. You have now moved into the mp3 folder. Now type the line given by cactus521: dir *.mp3 /b >playlist.m3u
8. Exit the commandprompt by typing exit or closing the window at the upperright corner, like usual.

EDIT: you can also use Winamp to make a playlist. It can export the playlist to file. Makes it easier to customize it, too.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

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[markmarkmark]

Thanks for your quick response, still got a question:
Did step 1, 2 and 3

I Type C:cd\cd Music *.mp3 /b >playlist.m3u but it says it cand find the command or drive. What am I doing wrong? Could you type me the correct form? Thanks again. Really appreciate it!

[wileyecoyote]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-02 AT 10:23AM (EDT)[/font][p][font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-02 AT 10:17 AM (EDT)[/font]

My apologies, I should have been more clear. After each point (4 trough 8) you should hit Enter first. My mistake.

EDIT: An example. In your case it should probably look like this:
c:\windows>c:
c:\windows>cd\
c:>cd music
c:\music>dir *.mp3 /b >playlist.m3u
c:\music>exit

Regards,

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