MMWave MP3 Decoder v1.0 - Release 3 [Freeware] Copyright © 1999 SoundBytes Denmark. All rights reserved. Powered by MMWave® 2 Very quick introduction guide. ***NEWS!*** 1999.01.19 - Removed bitmap from the About Box - Changed from MMWave VCL component into pure code - ...more... 1999.01.18 - Added support for self antivirus check - New optimized decoding engine - More deeply MPEG Information - New Mini MP3 Player to test the file's - Ehrm, have a look for yourself :o) 1999.01.13: - Brand new decoding section: Mapping Mode - Added the ability to see current filesize and decoded filesize - Tried to optimize the code a little bit more, can you feel it? - Online updates Welcome to MMWave. This is the sequel to MP32WAV Professional v1.0, 2.0 and 2.0 (DLL). The decoder engine has been totally re-written and new stuff has been added. MMWave is now a standalone application based on SoundBytes Denmark's MMWave® 2 decoder engine, very small, faaaaast and superb output quality. In MP32WAV Professional 2 (DLL) the users had the ability to choose output quality and decoding parts. This all now happens (almost) automatically in MMWave, so the user doesn't have to worry about output quality and decoding parts. But now you have the ability to change Mapping Mode. This feature existed in the old NAD player, and now its available in MMWave to. MMWave regognizes 5 different encoders when you choose Autodetect. If you don't know which encoder that has been used to create the MP3 file you have, then set the encoder to choose automatically or "Xing / Misc. encoder". MMWave screens the files and try to locate the encoder that has been used. If MMWave don't regognize it then the default settings are used. The "range decoding" has also been removed, the new is "intro decoding". This enables the user to decode a custom time from the MP3 file. Eg. it could be nice just to decode the first 10 seconds of your MP3 files. All MP3 files which are decoded by MMWave has different output sizes. This is the new thing in the MMWave® 2 decoding engine. Not as all other decoders, all output files has the same filesize. This even affects if two files are encoded as for example: 128Kbps/44KHz/Joint. Here's the big deal in using MMWave. MMWave screens the MP3 file and try to identify the used encoder, if MMWave succeed in the identification MMWave continues. If MMWave not are able to find any encoder signature, then default "Xing / Misc." encoder is used. Supported encoders are: XingMP3 encoders (excl. the new VBR) Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Audio Layer 3 codec (incl. Producer PRO 1 and 2) Tord Jansson BladeEnc v0.7x+ Alberto Dimechelis Plugger+ v0.4+ All MP3 encoders uses the *free* ISO codec scheme You can now also drag and drop files into MMWave from the explorer or any other filemanager app. How you use MMWave is not really difficult, just choose some files and hit "MP3 -> WAV". Thats it. Note that you can't decode MP3 files that has a wave header, before decoding these files, go and download AMP3ENC 2 - Release 2 or higher, and select the "Wave MP3 Ripper". You can also change the background graphics within MMWave, to do this, just make some bitmap files with the names: main.bmp and player.bmp. These can be in sizes from 10x10 to 100x100 in millions of colors. The file "main.bmp" sets the background for the Main Form and the progressbar and the file "player.bmp" sets the background for the Mini MP3 Player Form and its progressbar. The images will automatically Tiled, when used just as you know it. Place the files in the same directory as "mmwave.exe". MMWave automatically loads them if they exists. If you want some information on a MP3 just click on it in the filelistbox or in the joblist. The estiminated output size is taken from this settings: 44KHz 16-Bit Stereo/128 Kbps/Stereo. To launch the Mini MP3 Player just doubleclick on a MP3 file in the joblist. Note! You can't listen and decode MP3 files at the same time. Online updates: You can now update MMWave to the latest version using the update utility that comes among with MMWave. Have a look in the MMWave\Update directory and run the .EXE file for online updates. Well I guess this is enough for now. If you want some help, then goto our homepages (www.soundbytes.dk) and send us an e-mail or two. /NGin PS! If you discover any problems while decoding into the root of a drive, then try to remove the "\" sign and it should look like this: C: or D: and NOT C:\ or D:\ Sorry for this inconvinience.