Does anyone has an opinion on the quality of
MP3/MP2 files generated by SCMPX?

http://www.din.or.jp/~ch3/scmpx_e.html

I've found no comments about it Here, on FF123's page or on r3mix. - Not a single word!

Is it unknown to the audio community, or the quality is so bad it's not worth talking about? (like 8hz, SoloH, dist10... )

Regards;

Roberto.

EncSpot identified mp3s files as 'QDesign'. I've read not very good comments about it.

Yeah, I've heard Qdesign is the worst commercial MP3 encoder.

Btw, the VBR mode is the worst I've ever seen on a MP3 encoder.

QDesign MP2 is pretty good though.

I just recently tested SCMPX on applaud.wav at 128, because my friend at work uses it and I was curious. It is absolutely terrible on that particular sample. Trnz said it was actually a dist10 rather than QDesign, but didn't tell me how he knew this. In any case, it sucked on that one sample.

ff123

Trivia: I was listening to the live version of the Eagles Hotel California today at work, and I now know where applaud.wav came from -- it can be heard in its entirety at the end of that song!

Thanks for the nice little bit of trivia ff123!

Does anyone else know where the other samples (such as fatboy and castenets etc.) come from?

I think I heard the fatboy in a song being played on the radio a few nights back, but I am NOT sure.

Cheers
AgentMil

Fatboy comes from Fatboy Slim's Kalifornia

Hmmm... California. I wonder if there's some relationship.

Thanks for that!!!!

Yeah it seems there seems to be a relationship But I seriously doubt it though.

Anyone else know where the other samples come from?

I always thought SCMPX uses some old Xing code, but I don't know.

Ciao Robert