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Play music inside zip, rar, 7z, tar.gz (archives) #487

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Would like to listen music inside archive formats, like zip, rar, 7z, tar.gz.

Downloading music on that type of archives are very common (eMule, rapidshare, 
mediafire, etc)

At the windows world, winamp and foobar2000 does that. The media library of 
those softwares also indexes music inside archive formats.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hsanta...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2011 at 1:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Playing music inside archives like .zip, .rar, .7z, .tar.gz, etc... is a good 
way to maintain the archive the same way as you downloaded it, with is 
important to P2P file sharing.
Most people download an archive from P2P and have to decompress it to play the 
music inside. That way, you have two copies of the music on your computer, one 
to listen and another to share. But to free some space people delete the 
archive and than the file is not shared anymore.
Players like foobar2000 can play music inside archives, that way you can seed 
the file on P2P and, same time, use it to listen.
This is important to me because I use emule to share, and it does not support 
sharing entire folders like BitTorrent does. You have to archive an album if 
you want to share it.
When we download music from http, like rapidshare, mediafire, megaupload, 
etc... we can't download an entire album at once if it is not archived. So 
archived music albums are very common. 
qmmp can't play it. And I don't know any other linux native player that can. At 
present I still use foobar2000 over wine. I know that on windows, Winamp also 
can play music inside archived files.

Original comment by hsanta...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2011 at 9:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
At the screenshot foobar2000 is playing songs inside rar archive. Look at "File 
Path" column (playlist).

Original comment by hsanta...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2011 at 9:48

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by trialuser02 on 23 Mar 2012 at 3:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I have a lot of XM files which are compressed with zip. Playbak without 
decompressing will be very useful. QMMP may be first linux player which can do 
this. On windows is XMPlayer but works bad over WINE.

Original comment by digitalw...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2012 at 9:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Any progress on it? Any plans?

Original comment by esqrot...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2014 at 8:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Could it be realized as a plug-in?

Original comment by esqrot...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2014 at 9:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes, it's  possible, but not for all decoders. I think it would be better to 
start this work after  switching to Qt5.

Original comment by trialuser02 on 1 May 2014 at 6:12