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Article #1007Re: MP3 Vs ATRAC : Which is worse ?
From: md_fan
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <77bvje$q3o$3@justice.csc.cuhk.edu.hk>, kpwong@psy.cuhk.edu.hk (Kit-pui Wong) wrote: > ATRAC (for MD) and MP3 are both irreversible data "compression" > algorithms. > Which one loses more data during "compression" ? > Which one gives worse audio result, theoretically and/or > practically ?? I would have asked "which is better" since you can get very good sound from both formats. ATRAC uses a 292k bitrate and most MP3s found on the Net use a 128k bitrate. ATRAC is considerably cleaner, especially in the high end. When MP3s are encoded at 160k they start sounding pretty good and at 256k they get hard to distinguish from ATRAC. But the formats are intended for different purposes. You can record almost any source on a MiniDisc (including MP3s) but MP3s themselves are just a file format. Why not just use both? MDF -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109f11,8f9482d021558bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid109f11,public X-Google-Thread: fb1f8,8f9482d021558bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1f8,public X-Google-Thread: 10d85e,8f9482d021558bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d85e,public X-Google-Thread: 105a81,8f9482d021558bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid105a81,public From: md_fan@usa.net Subject: Re: MP3 Vs ATRAC : Which is worse ? Date: 1999/02/03 Message-ID: <799d94$670$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 440140257 References: <77bvje$q3o$3@justice.csc.cuhk.edu.hk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 209.63.247.161 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Feb 03 11:52:05 1999 GMT Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.opinion,rec.audio.misc,hk.rec.audio-visual X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win98; I)