From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com>
quoted 5 lines Enlighten me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that
> Enlighten me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that
> Fraunhofer are the original developers of the MP3 compression
> algorhithm (sp??) which is used by *all* MP3 encoders? Is there
> really a massive audible difference (at the same bitrate) between the
> various app's?
No, they hold the patent on the original work and ISO-radified source release circa 1992. the FnG
german patent was granted in 1989 in contrast the first agreeable modern personal computer was
released not a decade before. in the 10 years since, have you seen an improvment over the
then-common 33MHz 386 personal comptuer ? yeah, well digital audio compression has gone through
similar improvments yet as a society, we still embrace and rely on the outdated MP3 format.
the LAME encoder as of v 3.8 (current ver. is 3.93) is 100% ISO-source-release code-free. it is
significantly better than the original encoder algorithm and psychoacoustic model although the
actual data storage format is unchanged.
most reviewers have given up on MP3 listening tests since as of 3 years ago, it was apparent that
the currently available compression formats, which have the benefit of exponentially higher
processing power of modern personal computers at their disposal, had all but eclipsed MP3 quality.
you will not see much recent or future movement on the LAME development as they have pretty much
exhausted what can be done with the MP3 format while still conforming to the storage and playback
requirements of the standard.
check out this old review, we've come even farther since :
http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/analysis.htm#MM44BUG
quoted 8 lines I've been using LAME since it's regarded as being the 'best' and I
> I've been using LAME since it's regarded as being the 'best' and I've
> certainly been happy with the results at 192 for archiving my music;
> however since I encoded a file to .ogg yesterday for the first time
> ever, I'm truly convinced that Ogg sounds better.
>
> Henceforth, I shall ogg away... just as soon as I install a user-
> friendly front-end version that doesn't rely on command-lines, since
> I'm not nearly geeky enough :-)
use EAC with the commandline Vorbis encoder backend. level 8 encoding is quite acceptable as an
archive medium, even to this dyed-in-the-wool audiophile.
-=dave
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