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Thomson Releases MP3 Surround

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bouncing-around-the-room dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "Thomson has released MP3 Surround, a new MP3 codec. They claim that MP3 Surround supports high-quality multi-channel sound at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo MP3 material, resulting in files half the size of common compressed surround formats while maintaining backwards compatibility. Wasn't MP3 Pro supposed to be a great new MP3 codec, but never took off? I wonder if this is going to go the same route. Does anyone have a technical view of MP3 Surround? Does it have potential?"

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  1. All I know is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    I've got 10 gigs of mp3s and I'm certainly not going to reprocess them into a file format my iPod doesn't play at the full bitrate and won't play as it should in xmms. I've got 320gb of HD space, having 5gb instead of 10gb just is not worth it.

    At this point in time, I really don't see this being popular. Might be nice on a flash based player where storage space is an issue but, I don't really care.

  2. Re:MP3 is dead, right? by Rie+Beam · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Are my Slashdot stories flowing into each other again?"

    http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html

  3. Re:MP3 is dead, right? by shigelojoe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Korea, jokes getting old is only for old people. ...

    Yeah, it's dead.