Re: MP3 Vs ATRAC : Which is worse ?

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From: Arny Kr�ger
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:00

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jj, curmudgeon and tiring philalethist wrote in message ...
>In article <iogu2.1963$ob2.4875@news.flash.net>,
>Arny Kr�ger <arnyk@flash.net> wrote:
>>IMO, there is a legitimate concern about mixing and matching perceptual
coder
>>mixing and matching.

>Don't use two of them.

That's nice in the theoretical world, but if you monitor the MD NG's, it is
clear that people are doing just that.

>>If you route music through
>>multiple stages of different perceptual coders, the possibility that audible
>>stuff is thrown out would seem to increase.

>It is extraordinarly likely that, at internet rates, you do not EVER want to
do more than 1 encode/decode cycle.

I agree, but I know what people are doing, in practice.

>One does NOT tandem perceptual coders.

Back in the real world, they do and many are not displeased with the results.
Again, I don't advocate it, but I know what people are doing and the results
they report.

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From: "Arny Kr�ger" <arnyk@flash.net>
Subject: Re: MP3 Vs ATRAC : Which is worse ?
Date: 1999/02/04
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