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Musepack / Gapless Support?

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Topic author: Katie
Subject: Musepack / Gapless Support?
Posted on: 12/15/2004 12:50:35 AM
Message:

Just curious what the status is regarding both Musepack and gapless playback support for the Neuros. I wanted a Neuros so very badly, and came quite close to buying one in fact. In the end I purchased two Rio Karma's for the spouse and I, and have been extremely happy with them because of their excellent Vorbis playback (which is flawless even at q10 by the way, and gapless too). However, I would gladly give them up and buy two 80GB Neuros units instead should Musepack support ever arrive, as long as it was gapless of course. Then the Neuros would pretty much be perfect and nothing could beat it IMHO. The 20GB drive of the Karma is kind of limiting for one thing, plus battery life is not so good (I'm assuming Musepack would be a great deal better for battery life), and also no MyFi and the other wonderful goodies the Neuros has. Despite all those nice bells and whistles though, it's still hard to beat really good playback such as the Karma has, which of course should always be the most important thing really. If things aren't looking so good in this department despite the firmware going open source (which originally gave me high hopes) then I'll give up and stop pining away for a Neuros and be happy with my Karma. Thanks all!

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Reply author: Yono
Replied on: 12/15/2004 3:45:01 PM
Message:

Musepack support is in the works unofficially (which means we won't give it up as long as there is demand), and gapless playback I'm sure is on a todo list somewhere.

-- 'Microsoft Works is an Oxymoron'


Reply author: Katie
Replied on: 12/16/2004 11:35:08 AM
Message:

quote:
Originally posted by Yono

Musepack support is in the works unofficially (which means we won't give it up as long as there is demand), and gapless playback I'm sure is on a todo list somewhere.

All stuff I knew pretty much already. I was kind of hoping someone might reply with a time frame, or even confirm that things are going well and that it will come soon. Hehe, I'm probably being much too hopeful. Guess I should just be glad with what I have, and that I didn't hold my breath and wait. I'm sure you know how it is. ;)


Reply author: cane
Replied on: 12/18/2004 06:29:34 AM
Message:

I'm also very interested in the possibilty of MPC playback.
I don't know if this could be of any help to the developers, but recently the musepack decoding library has been translated from C++ to C. Maybe this can make the things simpler.

More on that: http://www.musepack.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48&sid;=a16a240f2f743a1e05ed87a8a4a62daf


Reply author: cane
Replied on: 12/21/2004 1:25:47 PM
Message:

libmusepack C version updated again!

http://www.musepack.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119&sid;=35f479bd782f6a689e19f83fe25dfbe6


Reply author: Yono
Replied on: 12/21/2004 4:33:29 PM
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Cane, the problem is that it needs to be converted to 32 bit integers. This is currently in the works.

-- 'Microsoft Works is an Oxymoron'


Reply author: cane
Replied on: 12/21/2004 4:43:23 PM
Message:

Actually I don't know if mpc uses floating point arithmetic, just thought that a C libraries and bindings would have been more appealing. :)
Thanks for the info.


Reply author: kheops
Replied on: 08/02/2005 2:16:05 PM
Message:

bump :)
just wondering if there are news on the mpc side ?
many thanks

neuros II - 256mo / 20go bundle


Reply author: Yono
Replied on: 08/02/2005 6:09:23 PM
Message:

It'll probably be on the N3.

-- 'Microsoft Works is an Oxymoron'


Reply author: kheops
Replied on: 08/04/2005 4:16:00 PM
Message:

would be impossible for V2 ? (even V1) ?
i'd thought a firmware update might be enough :(
thx

neuros II - 256mo / 20go bundle


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