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PCM is a legacy format, not terribly advanced (poor encoding for space used) and very vulnerable to faults. Hacked Pandora (Unlimited skips, no ads, thumbs uppi
by StudentStuff 9y ago
PCM is a legacy format, not terribly advanced (poor encoding for space used) and very vulnerable to faults. Hacked Pandora (Unlimited skips, no ads, thumbs upping a song prompts to save it, runs on Android) saves all music files as whatever format Pandora sent them as, with no transcoding.
- khedoros1 9y agoWhat they were asking was whether the files would be saved before being decoded to raw audio samples (i.e. PCM data) or if they'd be captured during decoding. PCM isn't "a legacy format". It's the stream of data as it exists right before hitting the DAC.
- StudentStuff 9y agoAh, I'm not terribly familiar with DACs, I mainly see PCM in phones for audio files and paging applications, which seems really silly considering these phones support much more efficient codecs like Opus.
- asveikau 9y agoPCM is uncompressed audio. I'm not sure what you mean by "legacy" or "vulnerable to faults" but every decoder you are using is spitting out PCM for handing it to the sound card. What I'm saying is you want something like what you describe as "hacked pandora" to get the bits before decoding. Otherwise you're doing the audio equivalent of JPEG -> BMP -> JPEG (to make a visual metaphor).
- StudentStuff 9y agoHacked Pandora is a thing, and it just grabs the initial file, no transcoding. http://www.apktron.com/2016/02/pandora-69-unlimited-skips-no-ads.html http://www.apktron.com/2016/02/pandora-69-unlimited-skips-no...