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Title: Hardware support for mpc (in the future)?
Post by: Covak on 2003-06-20 22:05:39

Will mpc ever see any kind of hardware support?

Until recently I've been encoding everything with LAME --alt-preset standard. But now it looks like mpc --quality 5 is the way to go for what I want (in terms of quality/bitrate). But I like the hardware support that mp3 has. As I'm about to encode my entire CD library (not a quick task), it's hard to decide. I like all the other good stuff about mpc (besides the great quality/bitrate), but none of that is too important to me.

Thanks,

Covak

Title: Hardware support for mpc (in the future)?
Post by: Garf on 2003-06-20 22:14:06

This probably comes up every now and then, but I guess the main answer is 'probably never anything substantial'.

Title: Hardware support for mpc (in the future)?
Post by: Valefor on 2003-06-20 22:33:22

Use LAME if you want portability. MPC is a niche codec.
Besides MP3, serious candidates for portability are WMA, mp3PRO, AAC and Ogg Vorbis.

Title: Hardware support for mpc (in the future)?
Post by: Rasi on 2003-06-20 23:02:22

i think we dont have to worry.. players with open source firmwares will come, i am pretty sure about that...

Title: Hardware support for mpc (in the future)?
Post by: torok on 2003-06-21 02:57:12

I store everything in MPC, then transcode for my portable. That's the way to go. MPC transcodes amazingly well, too.

HydrogenAudio

Lossy Audio Compression => MPC => Topic started by: Covak on 2003-06-20 22:05:39