arch_angel16
26th May 2003, 05:14
It's a little off-topic for this forum, but here goes...
I want to archive my rather massive CD collection (~230 albums currently) on my PC, with compression priority going to quality of sound. I asked around online, and everyone told me to go with "musepack" compression format that has files ending in ".mpc". I started to rip and compress to that...it worked fine, sounds almost identical to a 320K Lame MP3, so that's all well and good. There's a winamp plugin for this codec, which is even better.
Now, I'm going into res when I start 2nd year in September, and plan to run a LAN shoutcast server for all of resnet...taking requests via a whiteboard on the outside of my door, fun for everyone :). I figured since Winamp had a plugin for the mpc codec, and since its a vbr compressed audio codec like all the others (albeit higher quality at ~170K/s avg bitrate) I could stream these audio files with shoutcast...
I appear to be wrong about shoutcast...it only works for MP3 streaming, and I'm not even sure it works for VBR MP3s. I know there's an "oddcast" or "icecast" or whatever program for Winamp that streams ogg vorbis formatted audio files, but I really wanna rip my music to MPC format and stream that.
Would anyone know where I should go to accomplish this? Is there a streaming server I could use for this? Failing that, is there a proggie that could transcode MPC-MP3 on the fly and feed them to shoutcast?
Thanks in advance for the help guys :)
I want to archive my rather massive CD collection (~230 albums currently) on my PC, with compression priority going to quality of sound. I asked around online, and everyone told me to go with "musepack" compression format that has files ending in ".mpc". I started to rip and compress to that...it worked fine, sounds almost identical to a 320K Lame MP3, so that's all well and good. There's a winamp plugin for this codec, which is even better.
Now, I'm going into res when I start 2nd year in September, and plan to run a LAN shoutcast server for all of resnet...taking requests via a whiteboard on the outside of my door, fun for everyone :). I figured since Winamp had a plugin for the mpc codec, and since its a vbr compressed audio codec like all the others (albeit higher quality at ~170K/s avg bitrate) I could stream these audio files with shoutcast...
I appear to be wrong about shoutcast...it only works for MP3 streaming, and I'm not even sure it works for VBR MP3s. I know there's an "oddcast" or "icecast" or whatever program for Winamp that streams ogg vorbis formatted audio files, but I really wanna rip my music to MPC format and stream that.
Would anyone know where I should go to accomplish this? Is there a streaming server I could use for this? Failing that, is there a proggie that could transcode MPC-MP3 on the fly and feed them to shoutcast?
Thanks in advance for the help guys :)