[LAU] What is the best MP3 encoder?

[Chris Bannister]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:31:24PM +0100, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> 48Khz will not help at all when it comes to artifacts and the raw
> material is usually in 44.1 (and sometimes in 96 or 192) anyway.
> Speaking about bitrates higher than what the human ear can hear,
> here is some cool info about high bit rates:
> 
>     http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

This is highly controversal amongst audio enthusiasts. (Don't mean the
link, just the subject.)

Interesting discussion:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/03/22/178213/can-you-really-hear-the-difference-between-lossless-lossy-audio

also on this list, there has been some "discussion"


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