Is MPC better than mp3? Options

[Grand Dizzy]

I just noticed in the polls that more people use mpc than mp3!

Bearing in mind that I know nothing about mpc, could anyone explain the benefits over mp3?

I use alt-preset extreme... does anyone recommend I upgrade to mpc?

[vinnie97]

some metal/punk on P2P networks is/was encoded in it

haha, I've noticed this same phenomenon. It seems some metal heads are closet audiophiles.

[Leto Atreides II]

some metal/punk on P2P networks is/was encoded in it

haha, I've noticed this same phenomenon. It seems some metal heads are closet audiophiles.

Probably the folks from MPC-Donkey. A lot of people there are metal heads.

[user]

weird...
April jokes ?

I knew (and posted) during the prediscussion of the latest 128k multiformat test, that cross-test-references are necessary and interesting in general,
and that without this, sooner or later somebody will come and connect the old tests (eg. with mpc versions) and the new test (eg. without mpc), to show "somewhat", haha, a comparison between mpc measured/ranked in old tests to compare the old "value" with formats in new tests and their new "values".
You made my day !


MPC,
that is great usage in Windows & Linux,
no (serious) flaws in higher qualities like 7 or 8,
wonderful small-sized high quality backup solution (on DVD+R) for my Lossless music.
Other formats are still struggling to reach the quality.

For portable factory made hardware: MP3 Lame -V5 -vbr-new the way I'm going. That's universal playable on devices.



well, the story of software & their developers (not especially mpc related) is weirdo sometimes, but if the result is fine..., they deserve respect, even if it isn't 100% perfect, that's life, to have tried and have made something, that's important

Lack of testers in the higher bitrate range:
- headphone testing does not reveal the complete truth about formats
- no fun to participate due to avoid being involved later into personal conflicts, as formats' artefacts could be taken personally by the dev..., HA is too small...
- eg. the latest 130k multiformat test with Lame -V5 participating, where the modern codecs succeeded well, all... -> Despite the easy spotting of lack of highs/attacks with higher frequencies with -V5 -vbr-new via good speakers in bigger living-room, and me is meanwhile over 30 with imo worse listening abilities than in my 17-28 years..., Lame -V5 is good, if you don't make A/B-X listening at good HiFi.
As I don't invest much of my freetime in virtual internet fora, but follow eg. HA regularly, I rate some core HA group (with some nice exceptions) as relative small group of eager technicians, some people who know what they are talking about, and a group, who simply rewrite again and again, what others have said before, who want to belong to the core, to be felt accepted by the group. Some sort of group/sect behaviour with own dynamics.
Due to group dynamics and relations, the groups' opinions tend sometimes in 1 direction, sometimes to other directions with the goal to make "policy", to diss formats/sub-groups of people, sometimes arised by personal conflicts.

The solution is simple,
go back to one of HA principles, listen yourself, judge yourself.

This post has been edited by user: Apr 4 2006, 00:04