The "homepage" for the MusePack encoder is on Frank Klemm's website...you can get the binaries for various OSs there. For Windows systems, MusePack comes as a DOS command-line encoder like LAME and several developers have written front-ends. WinAMP currently does not have native playback ability, but you can get a WinAMP plug-in DLL from Frank's site.
MusePack is still in its beta stages, like Ogg Vorbis, but it has the advantage of having a mature psychoacoustic model. The general consensus is that MusePack is the best lossy encoder available for making archives or anything requiring super high-quality. The MPC file I made for this test was encoded in "standard" mode. Encoded in "insane" mode, the file only requires 244kbps, so MPC is more economical than MP3. One of the reasons for this is that MusePack VBR mode uses an "infinite" range of bitrates...whereas MP3 is stuck with 320, 256, 224, 192, etc., MPC can do anything from 3 to 1200kbps.
Hydrogen Audio has a good forum for MusePack discussion. I'm pretty much sold on the format.
MusePack is still in its beta stages, like Ogg Vorbis, but it has the advantage of having a mature psychoacoustic model. The general consensus is that MusePack is the best lossy encoder available for making archives or anything requiring super high-quality. The MPC file I made for this test was encoded in "standard" mode. Encoded in "insane" mode, the file only requires 244kbps, so MPC is more economical than MP3. One of the reasons for this is that MusePack VBR mode uses an "infinite" range of bitrates...whereas MP3 is stuck with 320, 256, 224, 192, etc., MPC can do anything from 3 to 1200kbps.
Hydrogen Audio has a good forum for MusePack discussion. I'm pretty much sold on the format.
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