It seems that in the last several months, AAC gained momentum, mpc and ogg "stabilized", and there is some turmoil regarding a YAME.

What are your ideas of best (?) encoding format for

128kbps
the new equivalent to r3mix?

Mines, last year, where
mp3
mpc extreme (yeah, I know, should've been standard unless some extreme situations.... but I can live with that).

Thanks all!!

Willy.-

Define "best" first. Then we talk.

I am tempted to say "define best for you, then define your best options under your definitions for what best is", but this will end up generating a whole thread that would sinthesize the whole site, if dibrom allows me to do so

Now, for me, and excuse me if I am not as audiophile as should be for using this terms in this forum, I would say that best means the "most transparent audio for the stated quality, tested with a standard player (fb2k for example) by a group of people in blind tests."

A more informal and subjective definition: under a given quality (I would say sampling rate) the most near to transparent file format for the variety of music you enjoy.

Choose whichever you prefer or else provide yours, no problem with that!

You didn't understand my question, but you answered it anyway.

You see, for some people, the "best" format isn't the only that has best quality. Heck, if it was like that, I would be using Musepack today.

People sometimes care a big deal about support, portable playability, widespread usage, de/encoding speed, patents, license, being an international standard or not...

Anyway, for best quality (as that seems to be what you want):

at r3mix bitrates: most probably Musepack
at 128kbps: Wait for the extension test. There's lots of prejudice in this area, and I believe nobody knows for sure who's the real winner here.