Is MPC better than mp3?
Reply #14 – 2006-04-02 06:27:05
Yea, but it's over a year old...with much more development across several formats since that time. I don't know how one gets permission to create new polls. Why are you still encoding to it? What perceptual benefit can there possibly still be? I guess some people are just set in their ways. I [a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=378050"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] What a load of BS Do you actually know what you are talking about? If MPC was transparent back then, it is still now. There's not so much quality improvement in other lossy encoders really. MPC has already been very well tuned and there is not much room for improvement. Most of what SV8 was planned to bring is not related to quality. There're many benefits to MPC, one of them is that it is a subband codec therefore transcoding to MP3/Vorbis results in less audible loss. IMO only Vorbis now could come close to the level of excellence MPC has been. And if Vorbis is doing so well recently, it's because of Aoyumi. I don't remember xiph really contributing to the development much otherwise for a while. Similarly if MPC was doing very well in the past, it was because of Klemm. Now that there's no bigshot, MPC development seems to be stalled. But it already does an amazing job and I personally do not care & heavily use MPC. I trust MPC at high bitrates more and I have plenty of space (though not as much as lossless) on my dedicated music system. When I need portability I simply transcode and transfer, my DAP does not play Vorbis either. It all depends on what your personal requirements are. Otherwise the future is lossless anyway.