mp3HD - a new lossless audio codec - Page 2

turbojet · 20th March 2009, 15:38

I much prefer they took this fresh approach then try to do something with AAC. After all what is a software company supposed to do with AAC that hasn't been done anyways?

If there becomes a market of MP3HD hardware I can see this really taking off.

I would probably be using this regularly from now if there was a way to extract the compressed mp3 but for now I'll say with FLAC and lame mp3 as well.

SeeMoreDigital · 20th March 2009, 16:20

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Originally Posted by turbojet

I much prefer they took this fresh approach then try to do something with AAC. After all what is a software company supposed to do with AAC that hasn't been done anyways?

Lossless MP3 is an interesting idea technically but personally I can't see much use for it....

Love-it or loath-it, AAC offers greater encoding flexibility and given that it's now supported by cell phone manufacturers, its popularity can only increase....

turbojet · 20th March 2009, 16:37

I'm neutral on AAC, I prefer the higher efficiency over mp3 and the 5.1 support which mp3 (aud-x) really lacks. However I don't like that I don't own any hardware outside of computers that plays it.

We'll see where AAC goes, it does have some good backing but it's got a goliath in mp3 to compete with.

As for higher efficiency affecting the market, the majority of the public still see's no (to very little) difference between dvd and bd, which is a much bigger difference then aac vs mp3 efficiency. Then again not many can tell a difference between mp3 and cd either.

menno · 20th March 2009, 16:49

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Originally Posted by HymnToLife

Since both the resulting file size and the encoding time are larger, the benefits of having to encode just once are not obvious... Not to mention that the mp3HD stream will be useless when you will store the file on your MP3 player, but will still eat a lot of diskspace.

The trick is that you can strip the file from the lossless correction data and end up with a pure MP3 file, much faster than encoding your lossless file to MP3. The correction data is stored in an ID3v2 tag frame (ugly hack), so probably a tag editor should be able to remove that.

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20th March 2009, 15:38	#21 \| Link
turbojet Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,840	I much prefer they took this fresh approach then try to do something with AAC. After all what is a software company supposed to do with AAC that hasn't been done anyways? If there becomes a market of MP3HD hardware I can see this really taking off. I would probably be using this regularly from now if there was a way to extract the compressed mp3 but for now I'll say with FLAC and lame mp3 as well.

20th March 2009, 16:37	#23 \| Link
turbojet Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,840	I'm neutral on AAC, I prefer the higher efficiency over mp3 and the 5.1 support which mp3 (aud-x) really lacks. However I don't like that I don't own any hardware outside of computers that plays it. We'll see where AAC goes, it does have some good backing but it's got a goliath in mp3 to compete with. As for higher efficiency affecting the market, the majority of the public still see's no (to very little) difference between dvd and bd, which is a much bigger difference then aac vs mp3 efficiency. Then again not many can tell a difference between mp3 and cd either.