The Xing MP3 encoder is exceptionally fast. Do they cut corners to get such high
performance? Is their code written in assember?
Who knows how did they program it... But they did sacrifice some quality.
What (if any) chance of getting similar speed out of LAME?
LAME is pretty fast too. I
I hope you guys correct all the errors. Please make sure that no new bugs show up
on the next beta release! If it's very much "broken" I think it'll be best to
start again with a previous alpha, one before someone broke it. Thank you all who
are working hard on making LAME such a great encoder!
I raise to 99.99%. It's 0:43...0:47 of "I wan't tommorow" from the album
"The Celt" performed by Enya. That explains why I haven't found it
yesterday. The are a lot of similar spots in a lot of Enya albums.
"The Celts". :-)
:: BlackBird.wav: Also distortions in the original PCM
testsignal4.wav:It *is* Enya. One of the songs of the Albums
"Watermark" and "Shepherd Moon". But it is not the
most difficult piece.
It is most probably the song "I want tomorrow" from the album "The Celts". I'm
99% sure. I'll confirm
i think the mp3-mailinglist is seriously clogged...
Yep. I wasn't getting any messages for a few days and I got about 40 messages
today in a "burst". It's happening often. What's wrong with the mailing list?
- Zia
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Symbals are probably the instrument that is most difficult to encode correctly!
Pierre Hugonnet wrote:
Hello,
I have a interesting (I think) test sample (.wav ~1.6MB), which consists mainly of
cymbal hits, with some drums and bass. The problem here is the the cymbal hits. Small
reports
Real has released a Jukebox that encodes to MP3, too. But it uses the codec of
Xing and it is costlier than MMBJ. So, you better go for MMJB5. It will give you
better quality and I think it is easier to use.
- Zia
Musicmatch now comes with free, unrestricted MP3 encoding using
the FhG codec.
Does your CD-ROM drive have a digital output? If so, you should get better
sound from your CDs...
"Otto-JR, William F" wrote:
Pierre
I just bought a SoundBlaster 1024 live and compared to my old SoundBlaster
16 ASP I see no advantage for doing what you want unless you intend to
listen with
Well, on the features they say "Typical reduction between 20% and 60%
"... So I guess it's 'bout the same. Monkey's Audio is more flexible...
It's fast, and has got WinAmp plugin. Anyway, a benchmark would be nice
to see.
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Thank you for the link. I'm checking it out. I was actually looking for
"ordinary" CD portable players this time; not the ones which play MP3s!
:-) It should have CD-RW compatabillity - and if possible, with DSP. I've
found one from Philips which is good, but it doesn't have DSP.
- Zia
Roel VdB
Well, can anyone please give me suggestions for Portable CD Players? I know this
is very off-topic; so you may consider e-mailing me directly rather than to
clutter the mailing list!
Thanks a lot and sorry for "spam". :)
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Hi David,
Actually, this is true for if you use the -k switch at low bitrates. It
should not be used at 128 kbit/s or lower. The real option for high
quality, -h, is safe to use at all bitrates.
- Zia
Quality (default value Normal):
With the LAME encoder, you can specify the output
Good headphones and a good soundcard are of course, very important. I would
have posted this kind of a message if Roel didn't!
For headphones, you may try the Grado SR60s or 80s. They sound very good,
but they are a bit bulky. Koss Porta Pro is pretty good too. They are
cheaper, and are very
Does anyone have Audio Active Production Studio 2.0? There used to be a demo version on
the homepage, but I can't find it anymore. Shall be grateful if anyone can help.
Thanks!
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Kenwood's "Superior Drive": Ground Breaking Technology? Not really.
This is supposed to generate the signals which have been cut off during
MP3 Encoding. Like, CD Audio contains frequencies up to 22.5 kHz, but 128
kBit/s MP3s usually have a cut off at 16 kHz. According to them, when their
The cdplayer.ini has a 64 KB limitation. That is: once it is 64 KB in
size, no more entries can be stored. This is very inconvenient. Does
anyone know any workaround for this? Thanks.
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I guess ID3v2 tag doesn't cause any conflict anywhere... Does it? Is it
possible to keep both version of tags? Then, the programs which do not
support v2 may read the v1 tag... But I guess that'll confuse most of the
players [if not all of them!] because they probably are not specifically
I like this quote:
--start quote---
According to Brandenburg, the ISO asked Fraunhofer to develop sample
encoding and decoding software as a tool for industry to learn how to
use MP3. The source code -- the underlying instructions -- for these
programs was carelessly placed on an insecure
Hi,
I'm planning to buy a portable MP3 player. MP3 CD players seem to be the best
deal. Other devices have too little memory and also the price of the memory is
quite high. So far, I have found three MP3 CD players:
Mambo X
http://www.mambox.com
MPTrip Discman
Many Thanks, Nicklas! :-)
- Zia
Niklas Matthies wrote:
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 12:13:13PM +0600, Zia Mazhar wrote:
[...]
Adam Portable MP3/CD/VCD Player
http://www.mp3solutions.com/adam.html
[Anyone know the official website of this thing?]
See http://www.adamelectronics.com
I think the Ogg format of LAME is still under heavy construction... Go to
http://www.xiph.org and search the message archieve of Ogg Vorbis for
links to binaries of the Vorbis Encoders.
- Zia
Roel VdB wrote:
Hello all,
I wanted to try some tests on the ogg format, but all I get (different
Greg Maxwell wrote:
It's amazing the differences people hear, considering that when the bug is
not occuring the outputs as very nearly identical.
Very right! Same goes for evaluating encoders, too!
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Sorry, that would have been 2.64... Thanks for the confirmation. Then my old
in_mp3.dll mustn't have been overwritten during the setup. And the URL will be:
http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/winamp/
Has anyone informed nullsoft about it?
- Zia
WinAmp 2.63 has been released... I didn't notice the
Different versions, perhaps?
Why are the lame windows binaries on chat.ru, and mp3-tech.org not the
same file size?
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Should we let the two companies know of what's wrong by pointing them
to the Winamp test page on the *Sourceforge mirror* [not LAME
homepage]?
Of course, we should. Has anyone done so by now? Please confirm.
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WinAmp 2.63 has been released... I didn't notice the bug with the sweep test.
So, it seems that they have finally fixed it! Please check for yourselves and
confirm. Thanks.
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Could you please give a little more details about it? How does this actually work?
Does this
have any compatibility issue? And why not add an option for this in the binary?
- Zia
3. "safe VBR". This mode is really CBR, but it keeps the bit
reservoir as small as possible and uses VBR
Well I loaded the actual one, it is from august 1999,
even the may 1999 version has VBR support.
I would bet that his engine is based on tompeg from Xing.
Which version are you referring to? I tested 1.51 and the output is quite
different from TOMPG.
Once there were the tompeg sources
How can they say 'sounds better' if you almost get a to-the-bit equal audio
stream as with another decoder?
Well, the fact is Sonique "colours" the music. The output of Sonique is
different from the original sound. But that does not always mean that it will
sound worse to the ears. If you use
Sorry Greg, I wasn't certain that Audiograbber alone is responsible for this... I was
wondering that
there _may be_ something on the code of the DLL that is not optimized for
Audiograbber. By "optimizing"
I am _of course_, not meaning that it has to be optimized only for Audiograbber. I
just
Well, I think the name LAME doesn't need to be changed whatever happenes... Now
we know LAME as "LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder". Dropping the whole ISO code, LAME
may become "LAME is An MP3 Encoder". It's LAME either way! What do you say? :-)
PS- Would the name have to be changed to something like
If no problems show up with 3.80, then in a few weeks I think
we should make another official release, and finally drop all
the dist10 patching stuff!
Then LAME will be an MP3 Encoder? :-)
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Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
If you are looking for a great EQ plugin for winamp, I suggest you look at
DFX 3.0. It works GREAT! It gives it a total full sound. I can't stand to
listen to mp3s anymore without this plugin.
http://www.winamp.com/customize/detail.jhtml?componentId=11493
Josh
As I mentioned there is a plugin but it uses the FHG ACM which you need to
install first. It should be in the Plugins section on Winamp.com.
Ross.
Sorry for my repetition. But I was unable to find that plugin on Winamp.com.
Either they have removed it or I didn't see it... Could you please
Found it at last:
http://ftp.winamp.com/components/P/out_mp3.exe
Yes, it requires an ACM Codec installed. Is there any probabillity that LAME will
release one? :-)
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Thanx, I'll try it out some time I'm out of town at the moment. The only thing I
have to lose is disk space a lot of bad MP3ing habits... :-D So which EQ does it
use? And how does it compare to, for example, standalone CD rippers such as CDex, EAC?
Thank Naoki! Yes, it is sure worth of
Ripping plugin already exists.
http://www.winamp.com/customize/detail.jhtml?componentId=546
Thanks to Naoki for unearthing this plugin. Would come handy. Shawn, with
this you can now digitally "eq to taste" your files prior to encoding. ;-)
Does anyone know a plugin of any encoder to
Just thought it might be kinda interesting ... any
comments ???
I think it's the player's bug...
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The only thing I know, is that they work with different bitrates (layer 3
supporting lower bitrates).
Layer 3 is a more complex than Layer 2 and it offers much better quality/compression
ratio at lower bitrates. It is said that 128 kbit/s MP3 is roughly the same quality of
192 kbit/s MP2
Dear Dmitry,
I've tested it with other some decoders and the problem remained. However, different
decoders seemed to produce the clicks differently. Anyway, I tested it with a few
Fraunhofer decoders and it didn't happen. What does it mean then? It means that LAME is
not producing a faulty or a
Naoki Shibata wrote:
Hi,
I made a patch to fix some problems of mpglib. And, I updated
in_mpg123 plugin.
Now, maximum differences of outputs of mpglib decoder and
l3dec 2.60 is 1 for each sample, as far as I tested.
And, it seems that output of this plugin is more accurate than
In fact, it seems
to amplify high frequencies... ???I
have a "breathy" sample, after encoding I can hear the breath better than
in the original.Thanks for
helpGabriel
The extra "breathiness" seems to be the effect of pre-echo. Encode
it with MP3Enc qual 9 and see if that happens then or not.
Thanks... Could you please consider zipping it? It would be much quicker
to download that way.
- Zia
Adam Whitehead wrote:
Hi,
I've made the document available on the web at
http://www.audiophilez.com/layer3.doc
for those who want it.
Regards,
Adam Whitehead
CEO - Netherworld Media
Taupter wrote:
The term Kbps to represent data transfer speed in bits is absolutely
wrong, as bit is "bit", and Kbps is K (1000 or 1024) * byte * p (?) * s
(second). The right way could be Kbit/s. The term Kbps is widely used,
but it not a "canonical" representation.
Are you _sure_ that
Yes, that post was interesting enough. I started working on it right after I got
it!
I took a stereo wave file [a difficult one, which has frequencies just *jumping*
around 20Khz!]. opened it with CoolEdit, deleted one channel and pasted the
other channel over it. So, the two channels were 100%
Thanks for your suggestion. I've gotten over the problem. There's an option on the
"view" menu - "wrap long lines". Enable it and you'll have no problem reading e-mails
that aren't wrapped by
default!
- Zia
You might try hitting 'reply' and read it
in the reply message - Netscape wraps
Do you mean the new one that comes with MMJB5 and some other programs? As
fasr as I know, MP3Enc is the best encoder that FhG has released and the
quality of the new one isn't as good as MP3Enc.
Btw, does anyone knows if the new FhG codec is better or worst than
mp3enc?
Regards,
Gabriel
Shawn, which e-mail client do you use? It doesn't wrap the text, and I always have to
cut and paste your e-mails to a text editor to read them... Isn't there any work
around? May be you can try
pressing enter after each line.
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I haven't done extensive tests yet, but as from my observation, it seems that FhG
has released codecs of three different qualities. They have released some of them
independently and also bundled some of them with other programs. I'm stating them
below with the program names. If I am wrong, please
Dear Developers,
As you may have noticed, we are working on quality benchmark tests. Today, I
made some sounds with my keyboard and recorded via line-in. I started to encode
them with different encoders. Soon I found out a sound that no encoder can
encode properly. It's a simple sound of a
Sorry, I haven't uploaded it anywhere yet. Could you please give me a FTP site address
where I can upload it? Or, should I send it to you via e-mail? [That'll result in
increase in size during the transfer because of the MIME encoding, though].
Monty wrote:
As you may have noticed, we are
Hi George,
Thanks. I'm checking out your page. Well, speed benchmarking isn't that tough
to do; but you have to be very careful about the quality benchmark. I have a
plan to make a webpage with that information, but I'll wait until I learn more
about it and can sum things up.
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