MP3 to what?

[ChaosLord]

The proper thing to do is to not use MP3 in the first place.  Take the original CD audio files or a normal compressed version such as .FLAC or .SHN and use those files.

Once music is in .mp3 format it has already been damaged and you can't repair the damage.

Raw CD audio takes little cpu power.  if you want to play that on your A500 Paula chip then you would convert it down to 8-bit 22Khz.  That will take about 0 cpu power.  It won't sound nearly as good as your CD or your .mp3 versions tho.   It will take a lot of HD space so you will need to hook up a 2TB hard drive to your Amiga.


I had thought about making Amiga games back in the 1990s with raw uncompressed stereo music.  But toooooooo many ppl kept whining and bitching about how it would be "too big" and it would "destroy the internet" and blahblahblah so I never did.

[ChaosLord]

Yes I am right now using Linux and  a program called Sound Converter from MP3 to16 bit WAV as an experiment, so I was on the right lines.
But thank you for your advice, its been a heck of a long time since I done any kind of sound file converting on my Amiga.

Mike.

You are using the wrong format.  16-bit wav wastes all the cpu power because all the numbers are stored backwards.

Convert to an Amiga IFF format: .16sv for 16-bit sound or .8svx for 8-bit.

The 16-bit version will take some small cpu power to play on Paula.  The 8-bit version will take no cpu power at all.  Paula will do all the work herself.

Both formats are much faster than .wav.

[ChaosLord]

i just converted disc 1 of war of the worlds

OOHH LaAaAaAaAaAaAaA!