mad mp3 decoder

[Domel]

Thanks a lot Ian.
On xmms there is a noticable advantage in sound quality (not loudness)
when using the default mp3 decoder and the one from mad.
I cannot find any hints on how to pray xine use the mad decoder, but it
is not necessarily a topic for this ML.
So, I was wrong, and thanks for point it out. Nevertheless, the EQ
plugin for xmms (only with the extra filtering on) sounds a bit better
for me than the equalizer in Amarok (and I dont mean loudness)
Thanks again,
Domel

Ian Monroe wrote:
> Xine can be setup to use mad or ffmpeg to decode MP3s I believe. (MAD
> itself is just a decoding library and doesn't know anything about how
> to make sounds). I highly doubt there's much difference. But anyways,
> you could look into setting that up.
> 
> Make sure you turn off your equalizer when comparing "quality". Its
> recently been fixed, but it used to be that the Xine equalizer would
> make things much quieter.
> 
> Ian
> 
> On 1/22/07, Domel <domel at fastmail.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I find the mp3 quality as played with xmms-mad noticably better than the
>> one played by amarok-xine. But I by far prefer the amarok's interface.
>> (How) is it possible to use the mad decoder with amarok? I am on
>> debian/unstable and find absolutely no related packages (they say about
>> amarok-mad or kdemultimedia-mad in google but no such thingy for debian).
>> Thanks for any hints,
>> Domel
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