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Re: mayah flashman MP3

Subject: Re: mayah flashman MP3
From: "richpeet" <>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 22:27:54 -0000
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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