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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:29 Oct 2000 at 19:00:54
Subject:Re: MP3 decoding/MakeCD

Richard Lane said,

> Last week for the first time I tried decoding MP3's to CD on the fly. Even
> giving MakeCD every spare bit of ram I had as a buffer I suffered buffer
> underuns. I solved this by setting the write speed of audio CD's to "2",
> works a treat, though it's a bit upsetting when I have a 12x speed burner. :)

You shouldn't get underruns if you have a lrge enough buffer in MAkeCD
and burn TAO. since MakeCD is able to pause between tracks in TAO, a
buffer large enough to hold the largest single track will avoid any
underruns.

You won't get 12X MP3 decoding on any current Amiga. My CSPPC just about
managed 7X on-the fly. A 20MB buffer ensured I got no underruns on my 8X
writer.

Neil



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