Thanks for the MD tutorial, Walt.
-Dan
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:22:36 2005
Message: 13
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 18:01:07 -0400
From: Walter Knapp <>
Subject: Re: mayah flashman MP3
oryoki2000 wrote:
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> Walter Knapp asked:
> >
> > ...Do you know if the flashman records mp3 Pro
> > or any of the other newer mp3 formats coming out...?
> > Is it recording fixed rate or VBR? ...
>
> These questions are not answered directly in the literature
> I've seen about the Mayah Flashman, but I think it's safe to
> assume that if newer MP3 codecs like MP3Pro or VBR were
> available then they would have been mentioned.
I've had VBR for years, recently added a encoder for MP3Pro. Most mp3
players can handle VBR, so I use it. I've not been handing out MP3 Pro
files yet.
I was more interested in it's updating process. In mp3 you probably
don't want to be stuck with current encoding, even at high bitrates.
> Of course, 256Kbit takes twice as much storage space, making
> it roughly equiivalent to ATRAC in file size (or about 5 times
> smaller than a linear wav file)
256Kbit is also nearly as good a audio quality as ATRAC 4.5. I've not
seen much on how the even newer ATRAC change the equation.
> Rather than newer versions of MP3, I'd like to see the
> Flashman add a Fraunhofer AAC codec option, as used in
> Quicktime 6 and MPEG-4. Mayah already offers a software
> AAC recorder for Windows so maybe it's possible.
What I'd really like to see is some standardization in mp3 encoding. The
endless options are hard to keep up with. One of the problems getting
too cozy with the computer world. Even the .wav format is more or less
tied to the viability of the current windows OS. MS could throw a great
big monkey wrench into that any time they feel like it. They have a
awful tendency to drop things that become too much of a general standard.
Walt
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