Known issues
Current known issues in PaceMaker v2.2 plug-in:
- PaceMaker may not work with DRM-protected
("Digital Rights Management") music: If you have
purchased protected music on a web stores such as DRM-protected WMA files,
they do not work with PaceMaker because Winamp does not routine DRM-protected
audio data through dsp plug-ins, obviously as an attempt to prevent
capturing and encoding the audio in unprotected format. As a workaround,
encode your music in non-protected audio file format.
- Shortish delay (order of a seconds or two) before the music reacts to changes made in PaceMaker control window : That's due to Winamp keeps a buffer of a couple of seconds to prevent skips on slower systems. As a work-around, go to Winamp preferences, output plug-in configuration, and reduce the 'buffer length' value.
- Sound quality gets worse when
tempo or pitch is changed by larger magnitude:
PaceMaker does rather heavy processing for the sound to
achieve the desired tempo/pitch scaling, and this process
always introduces certain artifacts in sound. Typically
the artifacts get more noticeable with larger tempo/pitch
scaling factors.
- PaceMaker window doesn't have a close button: Winamp player doesn't allow plug-ins to close themselves. See the chapter "Activation & Unistallation" in PaceMaker user documentation for how to close PaceMaker.