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On quality, does using WinAmp with the relevant plugins provide good emulated sound quality?
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It will vary depending on the plugin you choose and whether the coder put options in that help to get it closer to the sound that comes out of your TV.
Most SPCs, for example, will lack the kind of bass you might expect from an OST cd. But with a little equalizer tweaking or option changing for the plugin, you can get it sounding just how you like it.
Given that you can also customize song length, fadeout, and silence on many synth formats, and given that they're much smaller than MP3s, it makes sense to me to default to the emulated sound.
Take Metroid: Sound in Action, for instance. Some songs have fadeout, others don't. Some songs have game sounds recorded in with the music, and some don't even play through the whole song before going to the next track. (I'm looking at you, Brinstar Red Swamp Area).
It's an especially poor OST on the whole, so when I want to listen to Super Metroid, I go straight to the SPCs.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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