What's up with MP3 Pro

[Slickster]

Last fall there was an anouncement from the creator of MP3 that there was a new format MP3 Pro which has higher compression and higher quality while remaining backward compatible with MP3, but I haven't heard anything else about it or seen in supported by any software. What's up with that?

Slickster

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

First a little history, MPEG(Audio layer 3) was created by the Fraunhofer Institut in Germany. It was later submitted to the ISO (International Standards Organization) and adopted. It's not open source, although for all practical purposes it might as well be.

MP3 pro is definitely out there, and most software will be able to use it transparently. It's just a different codec used to perform the compression. You may already have MP3p files on your computer already! I've downloaded quite a few from various P2P sites since MP3p's introduction.

 

[The Sauce]

I installed the MP3 Pro plug-in for Nero and it works great. Only allows encoding up to 96 KBPS but that's apparently enough for it.