amiga amp mp3s forget it

[Thorham]

16 bit WAVS using Hippo Player and internal 14 bit routines with calibration are good, especially if you're using double scan screen modes (playback rate doubles to max 56khz).

[kickstart]

Remember the Mas is an "external" player, it won't grab almost any Cpu use from your miggy. You can run it with a 020, play a Game... while playing some music or listening the radio/stream from the Mas at the same time... Do you think it's expensive, mate?

yes... by the way if i turn on the amiga isnt for listen mp3, wav, flac or whatever... i can imagine playing turrican and listening mp3 at the same time, sacrilege!

[slaapliedje]

Actually WAV's are better quality than MP3's

My 060 is powerful enough to make a decent stab at playing MP3's by I still prefer use WAV files with mine.

Of course they are!  But then it sounds like he is converting MP3 to WAV, and you'd lose the quality, since usually you take WAV -> MP3 (quality loss) and then -> WAV would mean you have the large file size, but compression 'artifacts', lowering the quality.

FLAC is supposed to be a lossless codec, but I'm not sure how much extra CPU is required.  Same with Ogg.  Personally, I put in that old fashioned shiny disc thing and listen that way, if I want to hear Music from the Amiga that isn't the awesome Mods.  

Now if only we could slap a DSP in the Amiga.  That's one thing Atari did right with the Falcon, and why it can play MP3s by default (at least from what I've read, I don't have a Falcon, but wouldn't mind one... anyone want to donate?   )

slaapliedje

[NovaCoder]

Of course they are!  But then it sounds like he is converting MP3 to WAV, and you'd lose the quality, since usually you take WAV -> MP3 (quality loss) and then -> WAV would mean you have the large file size, but compression 'artifacts', lowering the quality.

FLAC is supposed to be a lossless codec, but I'm not sure how much extra CPU is required.  Same with Ogg.  Personally, I put in that old fashioned shiny disc thing and listen that way, if I want to hear Music from the Amiga that isn't the awesome Mods.  


slaapliedje

I use a really good program on the PC called 'Exact Audio Copy' to rip my CD's straight to WAV files, that's the best way to play music on a real Amiga.   I use AMP and have set to use AHI Paula 14bit Hi-fi and used a utility to remove most of the 'noise' from Paula's output.

Amiga music

[slaapliedje]

I use a really good program on the PC called 'Exact Audio Copy' to rip my CD's straight to WAV files, that's the best way to play music on a real Amiga.   I use AMP and have set to use AHI Paula 14bit Hi-fi and used a utility to remove most of the 'noise' from Paula's output.

Amiga music

Nice!  I just use Linux, the file manager sees audio tracks as Wav and I just copy paste.  Well if I used wav files like that.  I know KDE has it built in so that you can drag/drop the audio files from the file manager and it'll auto-convert them to whatever you want.  Kind of a cool feature.

WAV files are huge though, would be nice if there were a 68k friendly lossless compression for audio.  Maybe I'll do some digging.

slaapliedje

[pVC]

Nice!  I just use Linux, the file manager sees audio tracks as Wav and I just copy paste.

Even old Amiga can do that, some CD filesystems support it.

There's no need to rip CD:s under other OS if you have CD drive on your Amiga. Besides that filesystem level way, there are lots of rippers and encoders available from dedicated programs to burninng apps like MakeCD, which can do it.