"The new mp3HD format allows mathematically lossless compression of audio material while preserving backward compatibility to the mp3 standard."
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Electronic Music other: Thomson introduces mp3HD format
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Written March 24 2009 , Tags: mp3HD
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great! But even with current lossless formats, downloading them is a real pain. i wonder whether all they're doing is just taking the bits that were lost and just shoehorning them into some area of the mp3 format.
I'm curious about the file size...
hmmm...
1) it's not free (is it?) 2) larger file sizes 3) 98% of the listening public are totally satisfied with high a bit-rate mp3 4) all the music players already support mp3 the only way this will catch on is if it complements some of their/other video codecs as the audio stream or is bundled with a hardware decoder ass a proprietory alternative to iTunes. i really hate how "HD" is being abused by marketing people. fakeBlooper said: " i really hate how "HD" is being abused by marketing people." Yeah, that terminology attached to this format seems especially dubious. It should at least support better than 16bit/44.1khz. Imagine how pissed off you'd be if you'd bought an "HD" TV that showed the same number of pixels as your regular TV; or if you'd bought an HD toothbrush only to discover it had the same number of bristles. Yet another perfectly usable phrase that has been rendered meaningless. for some reason they used mp3 before the HD; it's higher definition mp3 after all.
there are certainly worse things to hate, don't you think? The "definition" is exactly the same, actually worse since plain old mp3s can do better than 16bit/44.1khz, though not all players support it. It may be high quality, or low artifact, but it's not high definition, at least not by what I understand high definition to mean.
Using the term HD in this context is equivalent to High Quality. It diffuses the meaning of the term HD, which is now just a buzzword. It doesn't mean what I think it should. I thought HD audio meant 24bit/96khz+. Apparently, it doesn't. What does HD mean in an audio context? Nothing, not anymore. Why not just call it "Lossless MP3"? Maybe lmp3 for short. It is nice that there is an mp3 compatible lossless compression format. The name is just misleading. Signup to comment
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