I have not only been staying way from mp3pro but vbr as well. Not
from having knowledge rather the lack of it. I have kept control of
things with a constant bit rate. Should I change to variable bits?
It seems I loose control of what happens in compression when using it.
Rich Peet
--- In Walter Knapp <> wrote:
> oryoki2000 wrote:
> >
> > 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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