Stuart,
Squeezebox2 firmware uses MAD with 24-bit output. MAD is widely regarded as the most compatible and most accurate decoder.
Squeezebox1 uses a "hardware" Micronas DSP with 20-bit output. I believe their code is based on the original Fraunhofer reference. It has been a very widely used implementation.
So, both SB1 and SB2 have really good compatibility as far as mp3 goes. For mp2 and some of the more obscure configurations of bitrate/channels/samplerate/etc, there may be a couple things SB1 can't do that we will be able to on SB2.
The most important mp2/3-related one I can think of OTOH is that we now resample 22.05KHz streams to 44.1KHz at the output, so it can play over s/pdif. Seems like a minor thing but it caused a lot of confusion.
On Mar 17, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Stuart wrote:
With all this talk of codacs in the firmware, I was wondering about mp3's. Is this done on SB2 in the hardware? I started using MAD http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ on my SB1, do decode mp2's. My 'broadcast' mp2 files sound choppy if sent directly to SB1.
MAD also has 24-bit output... has the mp3 decoder in SB2?
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