Blujackaal
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Been looking up history that Fraunhofer in 1993 when they launched MP3, It was bit of joke. Like touting 128kbps with bad encoders like blade and more. But 3 MP2 encoders were transparent at 192kbps on more content, So I'm like why didn't they just push MP2 more?. Wikipedia said MUSICAM was pretty much HE MP2 that could sound good <160kbps but was mothballed.
Then Musepack shows up doing all that but was ignored in favour of LAME MP3. Which can break at 320kbps on samples that MPC, MP2 at 160k are transparent on. A lastest DBT put it at 192kbps at 4.9 a hair better than vorbis/AAC, Even Merzbow dosen't even phase the codec. What fun you could turn it into a semi lossless codec by using Q10 & Nmt at 32 which spits out ~850kbps files not sure if transcoding been tested for it encoder freaking out?. Yet MDCT ones don't gain much above 320k like Amir said in the past, Since them being more complex means more mistakes which is why 512k Opus/aac/vorbis, 480kbps MP3(free format) could die yet a 500 ~ 1300kbps MPC/MP2 won't in theory.
Then Musepack shows up doing all that but was ignored in favour of LAME MP3. Which can break at 320kbps on samples that MPC, MP2 at 160k are transparent on. A lastest DBT put it at 192kbps at 4.9 a hair better than vorbis/AAC, Even Merzbow dosen't even phase the codec. What fun you could turn it into a semi lossless codec by using Q10 & Nmt at 32 which spits out ~850kbps files not sure if transcoding been tested for it encoder freaking out?. Yet MDCT ones don't gain much above 320k like Amir said in the past, Since them being more complex means more mistakes which is why 512k Opus/aac/vorbis, 480kbps MP3(free format) could die yet a 500 ~ 1300kbps MPC/MP2 won't in theory.