how do you tell your player or yourself that a mp3PRO file is a mp3PRO file? foobar can't play mp3PRO files but anything with the extension .mp3 is associated to foobar on my computer? so tags don't help either (as long as foobar doesn't support mp3pro). in winamp tags would help if you don't want to use the mp3PRO decoder for anything. (if you want to use mad for example for your normal mp3 files). a tag could tell winamp to use the mp3PRO decoder instead.
should I just use the extension .mp3PRO or is anything above 3 extension caracters nonstandard?
how do you do that ?
and don't tell me to use a better audio format. i didn't encode those files.
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Foobar should be able to play these files, just that with a normal mp3 encoder, it ignores the SBR high frequency parts, and the files sound 'muffled'.
There would be something wrong with Foobar or these files if they can't be played back.
There would be something wrong with Foobar or these files if they can't be played back.
QUOTE(sld @ Jul 27 2003, 02:37 AM)
Foobar should be able to play these files, just that with a normal mp3 encoder, it ignores the SBR high frequency parts, and the files sound 'muffled'.
There would be something wrong with Foobar or these files if they can't be played back.
There would be something wrong with Foobar or these files if they can't be played back.
yes of course foobar CAN play those files but not as mp3PRO files and thats what i want or want to indicate. it's not that i'm looking for a player can play mp3PRO files as mp3PRO files but i want to indicate that an mp3PRO file is an mp3PRO file. (for decoding, burning or whatever)
If your stuck on Windows machines (and its prog/extension association), I don't think you can connect some files with one prog and some with another. The extension is .mp3 and that's that. 
You can always use the comment tag for yourself, but that doesn't really help your problem.
You can always use the comment tag for yourself, but that doesn't really help your problem.
Xenion:
I'd fire up EncSpot, sort all files by bitrate, and move the mp3Pro ones to a different folder. If you have files of different formats which use the same bitrate, a little manual work will be necessary, but this is still the only fairly fast solution I can think of.
Once you've done that, you can give the mp3Pro files a different extension (you can do it in one batch using ren *.mp3 *.mp3pro from a console window), and associate them with Winamp (via the folder options). And you have to tell the mp3Pro decoder plugin to playback files with this extension - I don't know whether you can configure this, though. At least Winamp's standard MP3 decoder lets you specify the extensions it's supposed to open.
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There's a very popular lossless codec which I *bet* you have used yourself at least once, which uses a 4-letter extension...
I'd fire up EncSpot, sort all files by bitrate, and move the mp3Pro ones to a different folder. If you have files of different formats which use the same bitrate, a little manual work will be necessary, but this is still the only fairly fast solution I can think of.
Once you've done that, you can give the mp3Pro files a different extension (you can do it in one batch using ren *.mp3 *.mp3pro from a console window), and associate them with Winamp (via the folder options). And you have to tell the mp3Pro decoder plugin to playback files with this extension - I don't know whether you can configure this, though. At least Winamp's standard MP3 decoder lets you specify the extensions it's supposed to open.
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should I just use the extension .mp3PRO or is anything above 3 extension caracters nonstandard?
There's a very popular lossless codec which I *bet* you have used yourself at least once, which uses a 4-letter extension...
Sorry for a bit OT, but has EncSpot been developed lately at all? I think mine's made 2002, and it's not exactly perfect (although very good).
QUOTE(Volcano @ Jul 27 2003, 10:43 AM)
Xenion:
I'd fire up EncSpot, sort all files by bitrate, and move the mp3Pro ones to a different folder. If you have files of different formats which use the same bitrate, a little manual work will be necessary, but this is still the only fairly fast solution I can think of.
Once you've done that, you can give the mp3Pro files a different extension (you can do it in one batch using ren *.mp3 *.mp3pro from a console window), and associate them with Winamp (via the folder options). And you have to tell the mp3Pro decoder plugin to playback files with this extension - I don't know whether you can configure this, though. At least Winamp's standard MP3 decoder lets you specify the extensions it's supposed to open.
Edit:
There's a very popular lossless codec which I *bet* you have used yourself at least once, which uses a 4-letter extension...
I'd fire up EncSpot, sort all files by bitrate, and move the mp3Pro ones to a different folder. If you have files of different formats which use the same bitrate, a little manual work will be necessary, but this is still the only fairly fast solution I can think of.
Once you've done that, you can give the mp3Pro files a different extension (you can do it in one batch using ren *.mp3 *.mp3pro from a console window), and associate them with Winamp (via the folder options). And you have to tell the mp3Pro decoder plugin to playback files with this extension - I don't know whether you can configure this, though. At least Winamp's standard MP3 decoder lets you specify the extensions it's supposed to open.
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should I just use the extension .mp3PRO or is anything above 3 extension caracters nonstandard?
There's a very popular lossless codec which I *bet* you have used yourself at least once, which uses a 4-letter extension...
thats true. i was wondering too if .flac is a proper extension. but whatever, it works
QUOTE(Xenion @ Jul 27 2003, 01:08 PM)
thats true. i was wondering too if .flac is a proper extension. but whatever, it works
The 3 character limit is a throwback to MSDOS, and is as meaningless today as the 8 character limit on filenames. You don't give your MP3's names like "MASSIV~1.MP3" do you?
QUOTE(Freaky @ Jul 27 2003, 06:25 PM)
QUOTE(Xenion @ Jul 27 2003, 01:08 PM)
thats true. i was wondering too if .flac is a proper extension. but whatever, it works
The 3 character limit is a throwback to MSDOS, and is as meaningless today as the 8 character limit on filenames. You don't give your MP3's names like "MASSIV~1.MP3" do you?
ähm no usually not
QUOTE(Xenion @ Jul 27 2003, 01:29 AM)
how do you tell your player or yourself that a mp3PRO file is a mp3PRO file? foobar can't play mp3PRO files but anything with the extension .mp3 is associated to foobar on my computer? so tags don't help either (as long as foobar doesn't support mp3pro). in winamp tags would help if you don't want to use the mp3PRO decoder for anything. (if you want to use mad for example for your normal mp3 files). a tag could tell winamp to use the mp3PRO decoder instead.
should I just use the extension .mp3PRO or is anything above 3 extension caracters nonstandard?
how do you do that ?
and don't tell me to use a better audio format. i didn't encode those files.
should I just use the extension .mp3PRO or is anything above 3 extension caracters nonstandard?
how do you do that ?
and don't tell me to use a better audio format. i didn't encode those files.
MP3Pro decoder for Winamp v1.2 has user option to show "MP3Pro" on the display.
Also, notice how MP3Pro files show 22KHz sample rate on non-Pro decoders.
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