Mad Plug in and Mp3 ERROR

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 3:31 pm

dont remember seeing this anywhere but thought it might be found by others that use mp3's.

the Mad Plug in is not working with mp3's if you configure mad at the 32 bit choice it will not play mp3's as the error code says unknown format. to change the input plug in or change the output device.

the only thing that worked was to change the mad plugin to the 16 bit choice. it seems to have stopped working when i installed the version 2.1 over top the old version 2.

have no idea if installing mm clean will fix that trouble. or if it is only showing up on win98. but just wanted to tell you the trouble was happening. and in version 2 on this win 98 madplug in did play the mp3's when mad was configured to the 32 bit choice.

as i said i am just passing the information i found on to you i cant tell anymore. sorry.

Post by **jiri** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:19 am

MAD should work in all bits per sample modes (8, 16, 24 and 32), the only reason I can see why doesn't it work is that you use output plug-in which doesn't support this BPS mode or cannot pass it to your soundcard.

Jiri

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:05 pm

nope wrong answer.

i use the normal wave output plugin and as i said it was working with version 2.0 of mm just not in version 2.1 for some reason.? i might delete the one in the mm folder and reinstall the mad from the download i got off of winamp and see if it works again. if so then it is a problem with the one in the mm setup but i cant tell that yet as i still need to do that

will post back and see if that is what caused it.

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:48 pm

ok i did the reinstall of the plugin i got from winamp and it still does the same thing in mm when configured at 32 bit so i closed it and then.

i decided to try it in the winamp program.

winamp did play the mp3 with mad configured to the 32 bit. however when i closed winamp it caused winamp to crash.

i then restarted winamp changed the configuration of mad to the 16 bit. and played the same mp3. it worked so i closed winamp and it did also work with out crashing.

so i opened up mm and went back to the plugin manager to configure mad to the 16 bit as i had it confiugred to the 32 bit. but when i clicked on the button to configure it the plug in was already at the 16 bit??? only thing i can think of is that the madplug in is now being controled by the same controler for mm that it is for winamp and it will control the configuration of mad for winamp from the plug in that is in the folder for mm.

last version of mm allowed me to have the plug in for mad in both folders one for winamp and one for mm. this one is not.? well it is not on this win98 computer anyway.

but it seems like it will not play the 32bit option then it is useless on this win98 as mm plays the 16 bit with out mad.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:27 pm

I have a similar problem - whne burining.

If madplugin is set to anything other than 8-bit, I get a decode error (error 3) in MM.

winxprpo
MM 2.1

thanks,
Michael