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MP2 compatible hard drive players?
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Sorry to return to a much raised question, but can anyone recommend any hard
drive audio players which handle MP2s reliably. I have a cheapo Venturer
model which has a go at it, but it throws up sporadic glitches which doing
so.
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One question out of curiosity.
Why do you want to use MP2, when there are some very good free MP3 and
AAC encoders available?
Richard E.
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You may want to consider buying a player which can be upgraded with the
open source Rockbox firmware replacement:
this thread in the forum seems to indicate that it works with MP2 files as
you would wish (DAB and DVB get a specific mention):
The firmware also gives you a load of extras you can safely ignore :-)
May try this myself as my Karma looks like it's giving up the ghost.
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I will have to look into that one. Thanks.
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so this player have a bug, some players don't accept the MP2 stream
correctly when there is PAD in the MPEG 1/2 layer II stream. If you can
upgrade your firmware, it will be better or inform the support about
this bug.
Nicolas Croiset VDL
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Yes Nicholas, I've tried chasing up the possibility of a firmware update,
but as the (limited and unreliable) compatibility with mp2 is undocumented
for the Venturer HDP3202BS, I don't hold out much hope for a positive
response from the manufacturers. A similar problem is found with the little
1 Gig solid state player with a Packard Bell badge (sold for around £40 in
Dixons). Worls fine with mp3s, and starts to play mp2s (with the suffix
changed to mp3) o.k., but then glitches start cropping up. No luck with a
useful firmware update on thier site, either.
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the best way is to give 30s of a MP2 record to the manufacturer via the
support an request to them for an ew firmware which solve this problem.
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That was easy for you to say.
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If you don't do anything will have nothing.
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Nicolas Croiset VDL
http://www.vdl.fr/
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http://www.vdl.fr/
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