Musepack is an audio compression method with a strong emphasis on high quality.
It is not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so you do not hear in a position to differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file.
It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has developed rapidly and significantly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.
Musepack is currently the preferred format for audiophiles and strongly recommended for everyone.
Also try MPC Batch Encoder. A Windows frontend for musepack encoder and decoder, for Tag and for ReplayGain.
What's new in Musepack Encoder 1.15u alpha and Decoder 1.95z6:
Fixes:
1. In some rare cases, the output file would have an incorrect duration (4 missing samples) in the coding of some very long tracks.
2. There was a breakdown at the end of the track when encoding from a 24-bit source through pipes.
Other changes:
1. - Xlevel is now used by default. Terms of Use - noxlevel to overwrite (- long help shows the full command line options).
2. Removed "Unstable / Experimental" write flag. The encoder now stores the profile data as all stable versions do.
The new version has been tested on these CPUs: AMD K6-2, AMD Thunderbird, AMD Athlon XP1700 +, Athlon 64 and Pentium 4
It is not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so you do not hear in a position to differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file.
It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has developed rapidly and significantly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.
Musepack is currently the preferred format for audiophiles and strongly recommended for everyone.
Also try MPC Batch Encoder. A Windows frontend for musepack encoder and decoder, for Tag and for ReplayGain.
What's new in Musepack Encoder 1.15u alpha and Decoder 1.95z6:
Fixes:
1. In some rare cases, the output file would have an incorrect duration (4 missing samples) in the coding of some very long tracks.
2. There was a breakdown at the end of the track when encoding from a 24-bit source through pipes.
Other changes:
1. - Xlevel is now used by default. Terms of Use - noxlevel to overwrite (- long help shows the full command line options).
2. Removed "Unstable / Experimental" write flag. The encoder now stores the profile data as all stable versions do.
The new version has been tested on these CPUs: AMD K6-2, AMD Thunderbird, AMD Athlon XP1700 +, Athlon 64 and Pentium 4
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