Free MP3 Encoding on Media Player XP
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Tutorial Information
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| Name: |
Free MP3 Encoding on Media Player XP |
| Submitter: |
NickTheGreek |
| Category: |
Windows Tutorials |
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| Submitted: |
29 Jul 2009 |
| Updated: |
29 Jul 2009 |
| Views: |
356 |
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Description:
The information in this article applies only to:
Microsoft Windows Media Player for Windows XP |
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Tutorial Instructions
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Windows Media Player for Windows XP has MP3 encoding plug-in support. To enable the Windows Media Player to encode MP3 files, you must download and install a compatible MP3 encoder. Windows Media Player supports only Audio Compression Manager (ACM) functions to communicate with the MP3 encoders. Therefore, the codec must be an ACM codec. I use the Fraunhaufer Pro ACM MP3 Codec. you can get it, like all other files, from my site.
MP3 Compression Only. Windows Media Player for Windows XP supports only plugging in an MP3 encoder. Using any other compression creates invalid MP3 files. Therefore, the only compression support that is provided by the codec is for MP3. The codec accept only raw data and output-compressed data.
Windows does already come with the Fraunhaufer Standard ACM MP3 Codec (L3CODECA.ACM) but it only supports very low bitrates, unacceptable for music. So get the good one from my site.
Installation
Thanks to Justin Leoni there is now an installer that does all the work for you. Or, to do it the manual way, continue reading.
All you need to do after obtaining the ACM Codec is to copy your Preferred Codec (L3CODECP.ACM, LAMEACM.ACM, etc.) to the windows system32 directory, “c:/windows/system32/”. Thats the simple part, but don't worry the rest is easy. Now we edit that registry.
You must have administrator rights on the computer to change any of the registry settings. But before we do that we need to know a few things.
CODE http://mattread.com/2004/03/free-mp3-encoding-wmp |
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