On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 04:20:08PM -0900, John Andersen wrote:
> Well there is sox , but its not clear it will convert
> from 3 to 2, as it does not address layer at all, 
> at least not under that term.
> 
> Isn't the primary difference a fixed bitrate in mp2?

No, Layer 3 has improvements like a bit reservoir, huffman coding
for the samples, different sized subband emulation, a 36 point idct
on top of the subbands.
It's pretty much a mess, they threw every algorithm in they could
find. That's what makes mp3 much more vulnerable to bad encoder
settings.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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