MP3 pro (1 Viewer)

[ariyanto]

Hi all

could you tell me if MP can play MP3 pro files I know it plays MP3 but when a MP3 pro file is played it can either play normal MP3 or mp3 pro part i have codecs installed and just wonder if it would pick these up as well

thanks

 

[hwahrmann]

no, i'm afraid not.
At least not with BASS. There is no plugin allowing that.

Maybe there are DShow filters out, which can do it, but i don't know of any.

 

[rtv]

Yeah, afaik Thomson offers a dshow filter - you'd have to use the internal player then.

 

[hwahrmann]

but Thomson wants to have a lot of bucks for it. afaik

 

[idioteque]

Winamp Plugin

Plugin Features:
• Play back mp3PRO files and streams on your Winamp player.

Plugin Data:
• for Nullsoft's Winamp
• tested on Winamp Versions 2.75 and 2.76. Please note: due to changes in the Winamp 3.0 interface the mp3PPRO plugin does not work with Winamp 3.0.
• NEW Plugin Version: 1.2
• Filesize: 225 KB

free download

 

[hwahrmann]

i don't know how the guys with the Winamp plugin solved the issue, but this is what i know.

So i doubt that any Open Source project has the ability to use mp3Pro.

The BASS people even will release a new version in the near future, which will not include it's own mp3 decoder anymore, to get around licensing issue.
with this version the underlying Windows MP3 decoder, for which Microsoft paid the license for will be used.
Knowing that, it's for sure that BASS will never support mp3pro.

 

[rtv]

Well, I'm already used to all kind of questions like "why can't MP do this?". But in fact we should focus on our goal and what MP is. MP3pro was invented for better quality at bitrates around 64k or even lower. In times of 750 GB HDDs I fail to see why a Home Theater should rely on those files

 

[reagan+carter]

as a side note, the winamp plugin was made by a person from thomson and released as a 'promotional' gift. no need to waste time and ask them free-to-use mp3pro libraries/API for noncommercial projects, they don't want to. full stop.

 

[rtv]

a workaround would be to rename those files with a dedicated extension like e.g. 3pr. Then you could enable the external winamp plugin to be used with that file type only.