Re: ATRAC3

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 07:41:20PM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> Hi Michael et al,
> 
> Thanks for libaudiofile.  It is very good software which I use daily and
> I hope you continue to support it for some time! :)
> 
> Anyway, I am interested in adding in support for ATRAC3-encoded files. 
> Whilst the format is not terribly well defined by open specifications, I
> understand that it's possible to use Sony's MS Windows codec to do the
> actual work and have a wrapper around this in libaudiofile.  How
> difficult is this, and can anyone provide a pointer to how to go about
> this?

Pete, adding support for ATRAC3 would be a useful feature.  While it
might be possible to use Sony's Windows codec to accomplish this task,
but this approach would have the disadvantage of requiring some sort of
Windows emulation layer which would likely only run on Intel x86
systems.  It would certainly be preferable to write an open source
codec which could be easily integrated into the Audio File Library.

Michael