  June 15, 1999.

  Port of the ISO-MPEG musicin and musicout utilities
  for the TOS platform.


* This package was requested by quite a few people,
  and here it is. The only MPEG Audio encoder I know
  of that works in TOS.


* The musicin utility is used to encode samplefiles
  into standard MPEG Audio layer 1 or 2 files.

* The musicout utility does the reverse.


* Use musicin like this:

  musicin.ttp -b 192 file.wav file.mp2


  This creates a 192 kilobit layer 2 audiofile.
  Other usual bitrates are 160 and 128.

  The inputfile should be 48, 44.1 or 32 KHz. 
  By default musicin takes 44.1.

  If you start musicin without parameters, it will
  let you choose the different settings in a query.

  The tables/ folder has to be in the same directory
  as the .ttp files. Or you can set an env-variable:

  MPEGTABLES=/path/to/tables
  
  if you wish to have them separated (MiNT cli).
  

* The musicin.ttp and musicout.ttp files are 
  compiled for 030 with FPU. There is no meaning to
  encode files without FPU. Still, plain 68000 binaries
  can be found in the 68000/ folder.

* It takes a long time, a standard Falcon creates an
  average song per approx 24 hours time! Without FPU, 
  it will take several days.

* This is compiled a long time ago, and doesn't use
  new MiNTlibs or a new GCC. So it can most probably be
  optimized better. The sourcecode with Makefile is
  included for anyone who wants to give it a try.

* The files in the docs/ folder are the original docs
  found. And the src/ folder contains the original
  sources (with only the Makefile altered).


Happy encoding, ae@atari.org



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