I'm very interested in this format because of it's backwards compatibility. I love AAC (and it's enhanced features) but I just can't switch to it for the media I distribute because too many people don't know what to do with it if there's a hiccup.
Pretty much everything plays MP3, so in that it has an inherent advantage.
Yeah, that's really its big selling point. While nothing plays FLAC unless it's homebrew, hacked, or righteously obscure, mp3HD already has massive pre-installed ecosystem of supporting hardware.
My big concern: How will the DSPs in mp3 players handle a 900Kbps track?
Really and truly, lossless MP3s are not really for MP3 players. Nobody uses headphones that offer enough fidelity to truly represent the advantages of an mp3HD track over a standard 192Kbps mp3.
Mp3HD starts to become valuable if your car or home audio systems happen to be quite expensive and support mp3 playback. Even then, I wonder how set-top or in-dash mp3 DSPs will handle these tracks. I'll be trying this on my car.
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KwitkoSheriff of Banning (Retired)By the thing near the stuffIcrontian
edited March 2009
As will I. I have an aftermarket head unit, but the speakers, subwoofer, and amp are Bose.
There are very few circumstances where I demand higher than 320kbps from an easily portable format, but I currently have to use a different format/codec for permanent audio storage and this could perhaps eliminate that need. I have a mid-range Sony head unit that eats right through variable bit-rate encodings averaging 320kbps, but have never tried to throw anything higher than that at it. Don't really need to, but would be interesting to see where the ceiling is.
So every MP3 player can play MP3HD?
No!
Oh they can play the Lossy part but the data that makes it lossless is within the tag. Meaning that putting a file like this unto a MP3 player WASTES SPACE.
That and really the situation is simple frauenhoff knows their 20 years of licensing is over. MP3 will be old hat, free to use unlicensed. Mp3 Pro required a new license guess what it didn't happen.
Mp3HD is them trying to get you stuck into another "pay our license" situation. And worse. tag editors, part of any mp3 player software that doesn't knows about this "HD" chunk will pretty much remove this HD information as it safes the new tag.
Meaning your once Mp3HD's are not MP3 VBR's. Jolly! This is the worst format I heared of in a while. So no this is a terrible format to use.
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Pretty much everything plays MP3, so in that it has an inherent advantage.
My big concern: How will the DSPs in mp3 players handle a 900Kbps track?
My Zen Stone has a hard time scrolling the file name while playing a song. I can only imagine what throwing 900kbps at it will do.
Mp3HD starts to become valuable if your car or home audio systems happen to be quite expensive and support mp3 playback. Even then, I wonder how set-top or in-dash mp3 DSPs will handle these tracks. I'll be trying this on my car.
No!
Oh they can play the Lossy part but the data that makes it lossless is within the tag. Meaning that putting a file like this unto a MP3 player WASTES SPACE.
That and really the situation is simple frauenhoff knows their 20 years of licensing is over. MP3 will be old hat, free to use unlicensed. Mp3 Pro required a new license guess what it didn't happen.
Mp3HD is them trying to get you stuck into another "pay our license" situation. And worse. tag editors, part of any mp3 player software that doesn't knows about this "HD" chunk will pretty much remove this HD information as it safes the new tag.
Meaning your once Mp3HD's are not MP3 VBR's. Jolly! This is the worst format I heared of in a while. So no this is a terrible format to use.