http://www.hut.fi/~hylinen/apollo/
What do you think?
Full Version: Apollo audio player
From it's webpage:
Really huh? Does it have BladeEnc tonal purity? Of course there is nothing substantiating that claim. Doesn't bode well given that's it's advertised as a major feature.
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The MPEG decoder is generally thought to be one of the best as far as sound quality is concerned.
Really huh? Does it have BladeEnc tonal purity? Of course there is nothing substantiating that claim. Doesn't bode well given that's it's advertised as a major feature.
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The decoder is actually worse than many other decoders in mathematical sense. This can be seen for example by calculating the least squares distance to the original signal (i.e. the signal before it is encoded in mp3). The perceived quality, however, seems to be better (or at least many like to think so) due to some choices made in decoding quality/speed trade offs. Those trade offs are always made based on listening tests.
The decoder is old and from the time when 112 kb/s and 128 kb/s were the most popular bitrates used. For this reason the quality in higher bitrates is not so great compared to others.
The decoder is old and from the time when 112 kb/s and 128 kb/s were the most popular bitrates used. For this reason the quality in higher bitrates is not so great compared to others.
Good call I think, Garf.
Have some respect for the honoured dead. The development of this player was finished in 1999. Anyone remember broken mp3 decoder in Winamp 2.666?
This player was one of the few that could play do gapless mp3 playback - yes back in 1999. Winamp did not have that feature before 2.80.
Very first thing in FAQ:
There has been a lot of new releases lately. Are you supporting Apollo again?
No. The current development is based purely on my own needs. I fix bugs that I find annoying and add features that I miss myself. So, please do not send me feature requests.
From main page:
I'm wired and I'm tired (1999/11/21)
I'm tired of developing Apollo. The main reason for this is, that I'm very unsatisfied with the design and architecture of the code so it's a real pain to develop it any further. The only reasonable way to continue the development would be to redesign the whole system and recode it from scratch. And that I won't do. It wouldn't be worth the time it would take.
I've not yet decided whether to release the source code (partially or as whole) or not. You should know that you cannot affect the decision by sending me requests by email.
Here's Apollo 37 – Anti-millennium release (I'm pretty fed up with all this millennium hype) which will be the last Apollo as we know it. While downloading it, you might want to familiarize yourself with smoothism and hopefully try it out.
Have a merry Christmas and buy yourself some real records for Christmas (e.g. those recorded by Telarc) and sense the fine art of not ruining the audio experience by false storing and sound manipulation.
This player was one of the few that could play do gapless mp3 playback - yes back in 1999. Winamp did not have that feature before 2.80.
Very first thing in FAQ:
There has been a lot of new releases lately. Are you supporting Apollo again?
No. The current development is based purely on my own needs. I fix bugs that I find annoying and add features that I miss myself. So, please do not send me feature requests.
From main page:
I'm wired and I'm tired (1999/11/21)
I'm tired of developing Apollo. The main reason for this is, that I'm very unsatisfied with the design and architecture of the code so it's a real pain to develop it any further. The only reasonable way to continue the development would be to redesign the whole system and recode it from scratch. And that I won't do. It wouldn't be worth the time it would take.
I've not yet decided whether to release the source code (partially or as whole) or not. You should know that you cannot affect the decision by sending me requests by email.
Here's Apollo 37 – Anti-millennium release (I'm pretty fed up with all this millennium hype) which will be the last Apollo as we know it. While downloading it, you might want to familiarize yourself with smoothism and hopefully try it out.
Have a merry Christmas and buy yourself some real records for Christmas (e.g. those recorded by Telarc) and sense the fine art of not ruining the audio experience by false storing and sound manipulation.
QUOTE(sshd @ Jan 7 2004, 03:14 AM)
Anyone remember broken mp3 decoder in Winamp 2.666?
Actually, 2.666 was the first one non-broken that featured the FhG decoder (if you disregard version 2.22)
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