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Help me convert files from MPC! [Mac OS X]

Hi,
I recently downloaded the MPC converter 1.15 for Mac OS X from the official Musepack site.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out how it works!  When I double-click the 'decoder' file, for example, a command prompt comes up giving vague instructions, but I can't do anything in it.  The text displayed there referred to 'MANUAL.TXT', but I haven't been able to find this either.  So basically, I'm stuck, and I have no idea what to do.
Thus, my question is, how can I use these programs, or any others (they must run on Mac OS X, remember), to convert my .mpcs to .mp3, and vice versa?  I'd really appreciate it if somebody were able to point me in the right direction.
Thanks!

Help me convert files from MPC! [Mac OS X]

Reply #1 –
Open a Terminal window (utilities) and go in the directory where you MPC binary is (cd /the/path/to/MPC).

then type "mppdec --help" or "mppenc --help" and look at the possible options.

Help me convert files from MPC! [Mac OS X]

Reply #2 –
Thanks for your help.  I reached the directory with my MPP codecs in it, but when I typed "mppdec --help", unix gave me "tcsh: mppenc: Command not found."  What's up with this?

Help me convert files from MPC! [Mac OS X]

Reply #3 –
Specify the full path to where you put the mppdec binary, or add it to your PATH.

Help me convert files from MPC! [Mac OS X]

Reply #4 –
Hi,

Let's suppose you downloaded mppdec in the /home/yaz/download/mppdec/ directory and your mpc files are in /home/yaz/download/mpc/ .

Do something like this
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chmod +x /home/yaz/download/mppdec/mppdec
cd /home/yaz/download/mpc/
mkdir wav
/home/yaz/download/mppdec/mppdec *.mpc wav


Et voilà ! mppdec will decode your files to wav files in the /home/yaz/download/mpc/wav/ directory. 

Use you favorite tool to compress the wav files to whatever format you like.


-- roynux

Help me convert files from MPC! [Mac OS X]

Reply #5 –
Thanks so much!  I followed your great instructions and triumphantly pressed the enter key, fully expecting my .mpcs to be converted and readable within minutes.  Instead, Unix gave me the error message

tcsh: /users/valeriem/desktop/stuff/utilities/mpc/: Permission denied.

which makes no sense (at least to me), as I am the system administrator of this computer (I had the guy in the shop fix it for me!)  Got any ideas on how to get around this one?  I'm pretty stumped.

On the same topic, someone really needs to make a GUI of this because damn, it's annoying

Help me convert files from MPC! [Mac OS X]

Reply #6 –
Is /users/valeriem/desktop/stuff/utilities/mpc where you mpc are stored ?

Is mppdec working ?
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/home/yaz/download/mppdec/mppdec

It should display the commands.

Maybe try to decode in the same directory ("." instead of "wav"):
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/home/yaz/download/mppdec/mppdec *.mpc .

or 

/home/yaz/download/mppdec/mppdec *.mpc /users/valeriem/desktop/stuff/utilities/mpc


If you still have a Permission denied message, try this:
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chmod +w /users/valeriem/desktop/stuff/utilities/mpc/