finally asking the right question

finally asking the right question

[Igor Gueths]

Hi all. Sorry if my problem (s) with trplayer seems to be dragging on, but
I finally came up with the right question. Does anyone know if trplayer
will play mp3-compressed wavs? Does anyone know of any library/codec that
will handle decoding of such files? Thanks! Sorry again for all the
repetitive posts on the same subject.

Re: finally asking the right question

[Ryan Mann]

MP3 compressed waves?  I thought a file could be either a wave or MP3, 
not both.  Please enlighten me! 
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi all. Sorry if my problem (s) with trplayer seems to be dragging on, but
> I finally came up with the right question. Does anyone know if trplayer
> will play mp3-compressed wavs? Does anyone know of any library/codec that
> will handle decoding of such files? Thanks! Sorry again for all the
> repetitive posts on the same subject.
> 
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Re: finally asking the right question

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Ryan. Mp3-compressed wavs are wavs that were compressed using the
mpeg-layer3 codec. For example, if you record a 5 minute song and each
minute of audio is 50 mb, your resulting file will be about 250 mb. This
assumes that your recording is raw pcm, 44100 hz 16-bit stereo. If you
compress it down using layer3, 22000 hz, 16-bit mono it will reduce it
down to probably about 2-3 mb. A good source for these files is
www.soundamerica.com. You might have to rename the wavs to mp3 once you
download them, but if not, can you or anyone for that matter, tell me what
player they used to play the .wav file (s)? Thanks!

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ryan Mann wrote:

>
> MP3 compressed waves?  I thought a file could be either a wave or MP3,
> not both.  Please enlighten me!
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
>
> > Hi all. Sorry if my problem (s) with trplayer seems to be dragging on, but
> > I finally came up with the right question. Does anyone know if trplayer
> > will play mp3-compressed wavs? Does anyone know of any library/codec that
> > will handle decoding of such files? Thanks! Sorry again for all the
> > repetitive posts on the same subject.
> >
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Re: finally asking the right question

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi Igor.
Trplayer will not play these files, or at least you don't hear them.
The 'play" command, through sox, which you might want to consider adding to your
installation, tells you thet this is an mpgeg layer file or whatever.
Freeamp will not play it, though I did not try changing the name.
mpg123 will play it, and you don't have to change the name.
I went to the url you gave, chose effect, chose a-5, chose 4snd008.wav so you
can verify that this is the type of file you are talking bout.
So your problem, in this instance, is a non-problem; you are just asking
trplayer to play something it won't.
Hope this helps.