Hi,
I recently downloaded the MPC converter 1.15 for Mac OS X from the official Musepack site. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how it works! When I double-click the 'decoder' file, for example, a command prompt comes up giving vague instructions, but I can't do anything in it. The text displayed there referred to 'MANUAL.TXT', but I haven't been able to find this either. So basically, I'm stuck, and I have no idea what to do.
Thus, my question is, how can I use these programs, or any others (they must run on Mac OS X, remember), to convert my .mpcs to .mp3, and vice versa? I'd really appreciate it if somebody were able to point me in the right direction.
Thanks!

Open a Terminal window (utilities) and go in the directory where you MPC binary is (cd /the/path/to/MPC).

then type "mppdec --help" or "mppenc --help" and look at the possible options.

Thanks for your help. I reached the directory with my MPP codecs in it, but when I typed "mppdec --help", unix gave me "tcsh: mppenc: Command not found." What's up with this?

Specify the full path to where you put the mppdec binary, or add it to your PATH.

Hi,

Let's suppose you downloaded mppdec in the /home/yaz/download/mppdec/ directory and your mpc files are in /home/yaz/download/mpc/ .

Do something like this


Et voilà ! mppdec will decode your files to wav files in the /home/yaz/download/mpc/wav/ directory.

Use you favorite tool to compress the wav files to whatever format you like.


-- roynux

Thanks so much! I followed your great instructions and triumphantly pressed the enter key, fully expecting my .mpcs to be converted and readable within minutes. Instead, Unix gave me the error message

tcsh: /users/valeriem/desktop/stuff/utilities/mpc/: Permission denied.

which makes no sense (at least to me), as I am the system administrator of this computer (I had the guy in the shop fix it for me!) Got any ideas on how to get around this one? I'm pretty stumped.

On the same topic, someone really needs to make a GUI of this because damn, it's annoying

Is /users/valeriem/desktop/stuff/utilities/mpc where you mpc are stored ?

Is mppdec working ?

It should display the commands.

Maybe try to decode in the same directory ("." instead of "wav"):


If you still have a Permission denied message, try this: