mpc, rest in peace, Note: bumped from 2006 starting with post #78 Options

[Squeller]

The last article in the mpc forums is from July 1st. This is more than dead.

Isn't it time to remove the direct links to mpc forums? mpc is like a dead limb in ha.

This post has been edited by Squeller: Aug 9 2006, 07:12

[guruboolez]

It's a bit off-topic, but if lucid anti-mpc zealots want to have a little fun, here's another hilarious claim coming from the musepack.net circus board.

Once again yet another unrelated "professional analysis".
This thread was not meant to discuss Musepack's popularity, competition with other codecs, people's preferences and so on.

1. bla-bla

2. Do you think only "those who have plenty of storage space" use Musepack? Are those people ones with hundreds of gigabytes? The --standard preset's avarage bitrate is around 176kbps, meaning higher quality at lower size than any competition.

source

The MPC "developer" explicitely ask to not discuss about "competition with other codecs", but four lines after his own disclaimer -- ding! -- a clear statement about... MPC superiority over competitors. Superiority at 176 (wow, that is precise) kbps, precisely where complete listening tests are missing... and this guy blames the few members of this board for their "professional analysis".

But this is just a snack. The big one is coming just after :

3. If you think Musepack is "losing" anything, all the statistics such as the tens of thousands of new visitors to our site each month, increasing usage and discussion of the format all over by users satisfied by the format's top quality, many major companies' interest in our files, Musepack being the top pick other than the popular MP3 according to a Hydrogenaudio survey, being supported by popular software on every possible widely used (and some not so widely used) platform and gaining further support by many unique and new applications, etc, shows otherwise.

(I recall that this message was posted less than one year ago).

• "increase discussion of the format": may I recall why this topic was started? Note that the last message posted on musepack.net is also more than one month old: current activity is even lower than on HA.org MPC boards!
• "many major companies interest in our files": too bad that he forgot to name these "big companies". We can't mail them to recall them to support MPC
• "...on top (...) according to a Hydrogenaudio survey": here is the lastest poll, MPC is in fourth position, with 11% of use, very far from Vorbis (and MP3 of course). And to finish, a last indicator of MPC growing interest
• "being supported by popular software on every possible widely used": no, MPC is supported in popular softwares, and not by them. The compatibility is most often coming from third-party components; native support of MPC is very rare.


Priceless, isn't it ?


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a few other ideas/projects are slowly being worked on (seeking/etc) but nothing to write home about...

seeking? That's indeed a great project! But didn't you consider seeking as useless

musepack will always have a user base due to the 1,000's of GB of musepack audio files out there...

Ah, I see... so MPC is basically attractive for illegal usage? That's indeed a great argument in favor of keeping MPC boards on HA.org.

the format isn't abandoned.

No, but quality improvement (precisely for what people were looking about when they choose to leave MP3 for an exotic format) is more than dormant I would say.

the thread-of-the-week-proclaiming-musepack-dead just isn't adding anything new to the situation.

Yes, it did: it contributed to clean HA.org board a bit in the last hours Finally, MPC is still useful for something else than P2P

This post has been edited by guruboolez: Aug 8 2006, 21:55