MP3: reliable ?
 

Hi,

As I am not really satisfied with OGG vorbis and FLAC files with every player I found, I'd like to know if mp3 is ok and up to what rate I can go.

All my collection is in FLAC and I need to "transcode" it to mp3 but I do not know what is a correct quality rate (128, 160, 192, more ?).

Regards

Re: MP3: reliable ?
 

i was quite satisfied listening my (albeit small) collection of flac files on the tablet but I guess you could to transcode to mp3. I played any bitrate successful on the tablet.

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Which app did you use for the FLAC files ? canola2 can play them (sometimes), xmms-flac (too but it "cuts" the end of the song), dunno for the others.

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It all depends on two things:

• How much space do you want it to take up?
• How different do you want it to sound from the original?

Naturally, you want those to be small, but you get to decide the balance.

I've got some 320 kbps mp3s, and they play just fine (10% CPU load at 400 MHz, using libMAD, an non-DSP integer-math decoder), so if you're worrying about realtime decoding, don't.

(I don't have any FLACs, but they can be played either with the DSP or with the CPU; look into your backend options before you decide it can't work, unless it's space constraints that bother you...)

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Space is not a problem (I have a SDHC card for it). I am interested in this DSP thing. How do I check that ? How do I tweak that ?

Thank you very much.

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I am trying this even if I am not sure what it will change exactly :)

Ah I see. Great, built-in player can play my FLAC files now without hicks !

Big thank you.