Anybody tried the new MP3PRO player?

[jcwagers]

Just wondering if anybody had tried it out. I have it and using Cdex to change the files to .wav files and then the MP3PRO player to encode them was neat. Sounded really good...especially being as it was encoded at 64kbps....and either 44khz or 22khz. Only problem is that the songs that are encoded don't sound as good on winamp....due to the fact that the new format uses 2 data streams and the old MP3's only use 1....so....songs sound a little "fuzzy". Anybody got any opinions or thoughts on this?

BTW...if you haven't tried it yet and want to....go to http://www.rca.com It's available there!

jcwagers

 

[Soccerman]

bump, anyone else can you please report on the quality of this? I myself am about to try it out! tell us what quality it appears to equal when comparing it to MP3 (what bitrates?).

 

[nortexoid]

there was just a fairly large thread on this but i can't find it...

anyway, there does exist players that can play mp3pro's two streams, and i believe a plug-in for winamp exists that can do it...

 

[Soccerman]

ok, I rebooted to windows to try the program, and I'd have to say I'm impressed. at 64 kbps high quality etc, these MP3s sound a bit better then 128kbit MP3s. I can still hear artifacting in the MP3pro encoded MP3s, though not nearly as much as normally encoded 128kbit MP3s. Of course, the 128 kbit MP3s might not (rather, probably weren't) have been encoded with Fraunhoffer, which is the best normal MP3 codec for low bitrates as far as I know.

Even so, if 64 kbps MP3pro MP3s can rival 128kbps MP3s, I can't wait to see what 128 kbps MP3pro MP3s sound like..

So, quality is good, I could almost stream that over my 56k connection (but I wouldn't bother anyway).

I ripped 3 tracks from a Love Inc. CD using EAC, and left them in .wav format. then I encoded a copy in the new MP3 format, and compared the two. I didn't bother encoding into normal MP3 format though (cause I can generally tell what 128 kbps sounds like).