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Today I got my mp3-player, an iRiver T5. I will write a longer review about it, but first I have to test it. Some of my music is in *.mpc format, which can’t be played by the T5, so I have to convert it to MP3.

This method does only work if you have mencoder (often included in mplayer) and the lame encoder. First the MPC file is converted to a WAV file, that means that all tags are lost. Then the WAV is converted to a VBR (Variable BitRate) MP3. This should preserve most of the quality. Replace input-file.mpc with your specific name.

mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:waveheader input-file.mpc && lame -v -q 2 audiodump.wav input-file.mp3

This provides a very basic conversion, maybe I will write a script that parallizes the work and makes it possible to use it with more than one file.