MPxchange is a utility to transcode MPC files to MP3. I have uploaded version 1.1 which has a few new options compared to v1.0:

1) Ability to drag drives and/or folders to list of MPC files to transcode
2) Option to place MP3 files in an alternative directory (like G:portable)
3) Option to shutdown PC when transcoding has ended
4) Option to cancel transcoding

A selfextracting archive (including Lame v3.92 and Mppdec v1.1) can be downloaded from http://home.tiscali.dk/~isl20023/MPxchange.exe

For more info see this thread http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/showth...p?threadid=3125

Regards
Peter

thanx for all the efforts.
A few things,

bugs:
it doesn't accept all drag and drops, many times nothing is added.
it ignores extra switches in the cmdline.

requests:
APE --> ID3 v2!
custom cmdlines
'add file/dir' - not only drag 'n drop

cheers,
David

I'd like to have a drop-down to choose between ID3 v1.1 and v2...

Consider that seconded.

Could you please clarify a bit. If you drag n drop a drive icon files will only be added if
1) there are MPC files on the drive (MPC, MPP, MP+)
2) the headers are not corrupted


Please give an example of extra switches that gets ignored


Please clarify what you mean by "custom cmdlines" and "add file/dir"

Regards
Peter

Just r egular MPC files, one out of 3 was accepted


fast, -Y, --verbose
--alt-preset fast standard/extreme -Y --verbose



custom would be above ^ (working)
"Add File/Dir" would be a simple button to use instead of drag and drop.

Keep up the good work,
-MTRH

i'd like to see the possiblity to create output dir structure from tag.

regards; ilikedirt

In regards to the situation where only 1 out of 3 files get accepted I would think that something is wrong with the headers of the two rejected files.

Custom commandlineswitches do work. However the --verbose option is NOT gonna work due to the fact that I'm using "direct transcoding" which means sending the output of the Mppdec decoder directly to the input of the Lame encoder. For the --verbose (and possibly a few other switches) to work I would have to decode to a temporary WAV file first before encoding. Afaik this is a minor problem and the --verbose option has no effect on the quality of the transcoding.

In regards to an add file/directory dialog I don't see the benefits compared to drag'n'drop. You do realise that you can drag a drive icon or folder icon and not only single/multiple MPC files right?

Regards
Peter

There is minor bug with filenames containing non-ascii characters. You need to save your batch file with OEM characters, mppdec won't find source files otherwise.

Thanks for the info Case. The bug has been fixed. Furthermore APE tags can now be converted to either ID3v1.x or ID3v2.3.

MPxchange v1.2 can be downloaded from
http://home.tiscali.dk/~isl20023/MPxchange_v12.zip

Please note that this is an update only. MPPDEC and LAME are not included

There is a problem with the way mppdec is used to pipe the file to the encoder.
Files encoded this way have a click at the end, because of a small oversight. Study the converted samples with a program like CoolEdit and you'll see a digital "tick" at the end. The click is not present if mppdec is used to decode the mpc to wav and then seperately encoding the wav with LAME. A fixed mppdec can be found on case's
site: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/mppdec.zip

Enjoy

Nevertheless, make a button, please! Believe me, I do have my reasons for not using/liking d'n'd... And I'm pretty sure quite a LOT of people here feel the same Anyway, this will only take you 5 sec I guess... So, why argue?

One more thing: pls, make the window non-fixed sized, so one can enlarge it (filelist and fileinfo fields ain't wide enough sometimes).

Everything else is VERY COOL! Thank you for the tool!

regards,
bytehead

I would also like to see add file/directory as I find it easier than drap n drop but hey its your program so do as you wish. Anyways, thanks for this tool I think it'll make making mp3s really easy once I get a portable.