MP3 Pro, AMAZING!!!

[SuperCyrix]

Just encoded a few CD tracks and honestly, I can't tell the difference!

 

[syzygy]

wonderful. now care to give a wee bit more informacione, paisan ?

this is not the first i heard about the latest audio toy. i'd like some
links to download and test myself (ourselves), if you please. i read
something about mp3pro being more compressed and what not. is it free ?
any bugs yet ? etc.

 

[Locutus of Board]

I am having a hard enough time keeping track of 110 songs on a CD. What happens when the players support it and you have over 200?

 

[Angrymarshmello]

If you can tell the difference between a 160 and 192 khz encoded regular MP3 then you can tell the difference between a regular mp3 and a mp3pro. If not, I don't think you would be able to tell the difference.

 

[SuperCyrix]

Try www.mp3pro.com
Let me see, a 4 minute song I encode took up 1.83MB. A CD holds at leat 650. 4 minutes(650/1.83) = 1,420 minutes of song per CD!!! or close to 24 hours!!!

 

[TripleJ]

That's what was said with 128kb/s MP3. I reckon even PCM isn't good enough. It's not quite perfect and I want perfection baby!

 

[kami]

I'll consider it when they can match the sound of 256-320Kbps MP3s.

 

[novon]

SuperCyrix

Fuzzy Math Man,

650/1.83 = 355 not 1420

Once they have DVD-R MP3 Players, it's going to be a different story.

 

[jushua]

355 would be the number of songs on the cd if every song were 1.83 mb.
1440 min is indeed the amount of time on the cd.
I think..

 

[Angrymarshmello]

650 / 1.83 = 355 * 4 = 1420

 

[jushua]

Oh, of course 1420 min, I just used SuperCyrix's numbers, but somehow wrote 1440 instead. Just wanted to show that SuperCyrix wasn't wrong.

 

[Moonbeam]

NovoN was just giving an example of fuzzy math.

 

[SuperCyrix]

NovoN,

Me engineering degree make me learn many math. But english go down the hole so my not speak and write very well. Matlab destroying ability to speak math as also too. Not long time before Simpson genes kicked in.

 

[xtreme2k]

Still no where close to 256kbit mp3

I think 128kbit Mp3 still better

 

[xtreme2k]

I wish I can do some 128kbit MP3PRO

 

[sharkeeper]

It doesn't surprise me since you're comparing it to a crappy "reference" anyways...

CD "quality" is pretty poor.

Cheers!

 

[brxndxn]

people who think CD quality is pretty poor should try listening to a crackly vinyl... or an audiocassette.. or pulling their head out of their perfecltly acoustic ass.

 

[nd]

Mp3Pro kinda sucks.. it makes REALLY ugly sacrifices to decrease file size.. quality definitely suffers.

Ogg Vorbis is better.

 

[kami]

<< people who think CD quality is pretty poor should try listening to a crackly vinyl... or an audiocassette.. or pulling their head out of their perfecltly acoustic ass. >>


hmm, you haven't heard DVD-Audio have you?

 

[Ameesh]

<< It doesn't surprise me since you're comparing it to a crappy &quot;reference&quot; anyways...

CD &quot;quality&quot; is pretty poor.

Cheers! >>



youre a twit.

 

[Ameesh]

<<

<< people who think CD quality is pretty poor should try listening to a crackly vinyl... or an audiocassette.. or pulling their head out of their perfecltly acoustic ass. >>


hmm, you haven't heard DVD-Audio have you? >>



you too!

 

[sharkeeper]

Anyone that thinks that CD &quot;quality&quot; is good is either too young to remember what really good hifi is all about OR isn't an audiophile.

Problem is modern music and its mastering just doesn't tax the medium. Analogue records and tapes do indeed sound better than a CD.

For most people, a CD sounds better and is better because a tape player that costs the same will have inferior sound. A CD can't hold a candle to a good deck such as the Nakamichi Dragon. Now if we compare phonographs, the same argument will hold true.

Most audiophiles will balk at the term CD Quality. With decent equipment (DAC's and processing) the resolution limitation of 16 bit medium can be made more bearable. It still can't hold a candle to 20 and 24 bit audio. 24 bit 192 kHz audio sounds so much more open and defined than a CD it's not funny.

Obviously one would choose the most rugged and portable format in the car. Of course, the car is a very hostile environment in the first place.

Musical storage and playback is much more than signal to noise ratio and frequency response, folks.

Cheers!

 

[kag]

this is sick
don't tell me you don't even listen to a song if it's encoded like at 128 kbps (regular mp3)..

 

[Pepsi90919]

sharkeeper, what about HDCD which is 20-bit? Sounds a bit better.

 

[pepo]

hey dudes what prog you use to make mp3pros?