MP3 to AIFF? (OCTAmed format) using a PC

[scafe]

Being a student and owning both a Windowz pc and a stock A1200 i have been interested in using my A1200 as an Mp3 media box for my HiFI but read in a previous post this wasnt possible without a kickass acellerator or some parrell port decoder thingy, which having seen the scidimatics cant build. However someone mentioned you could playthem using multiview in a format called AIFF (for octamed) at the expence of size. I was wondering if there was a way of converting/encodeing to this format on the PC. rather than using the shell on the A1200 :-?  :-D

[scafe]

thanks 4 the audiocity tip, it can save to aiff with a quick change in the prefs, Iv also taken a look at bthe MAS decoder on the eyetech web, but its a tad expensive.

[scafe]

i have a 1gb HD but when i said stock what i ment was it had no accellorator (excuse the spelling) board or additional ram, iv got a EZIDE interface and its been mounted into a babyAT desktop case, i was going to burn to aiff files to a CDRW and transfer them that way.  Space isnt really an issue because i wansnt planning on storeing all of my MP3's on the unit to startwith untill i set up some sort of network between my pc and the A1200 then i could shuffle files to and fro individually, though what this would be like using the lpt ports, when shuffleing 50mb files around, im sure is laughable!  :lol:  still thanks for the advice all :-)