Musepack Forums - View Single Post - Musepack to MP3 transcoding on-the-fly for streaming

Shy · 13 June 2005, 04:47 pm

Hi jinzora, your project seems very nice.
The transcoding solution is fine, but if you intend to download a file, I can think of no reason to download a poor quality transcoded file rather than a high quality original MPC file.
However, if the source is a lossless file, the case is different of course. Some users would still prefer to download a high quality lossy file converted from a lossless file though, such as users with slow internet connections, and Musepack offers the highest possible quality. So my feedback is: You should have an option to convert to Musepack for downloading.

13 June 2005, 04:47 pm	#2
Shy Admin Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 372	Hi jinzora, your project seems very nice. The transcoding solution is fine, but if you intend to download a file, I can think of no reason to download a poor quality transcoded file rather than a high quality original MPC file. However, if the source is a lossless file, the case is different of course. Some users would still prefer to download a high quality lossy file converted from a lossless file though, such as users with slow internet connections, and Musepack offers the highest possible quality. So my feedback is: You should have an option to convert to Musepack for downloading.