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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. Re:Once again.... by Oliver+Defacszio · · Score: 0, Troll
    As does Vorbis... Better quality at half the bitrate, or so.

    Oh baloney. That's just more political rhetoric from the same people who claim that "linux makes use of old hardware," even though KDE needs more RAM than Windows XP to run without swapping with every mouse movement. Sure, linux runs on old hardware, but they conveniently neglect to mention that it's CLI only in those cases.

    If you like Vorbis for whatever reason, that's fine... use it in good health, but don't piss in my ears and tell me it's raining. It's always stunning how political motivation can change the "facts".

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