MPC looking forward
Reply #2 – 2001-12-21 02:58:56
Hello Jason, hey I am in the same boat as you, I am looking to completely digitizing my CD collection so I will be able to play my CD without lugging countless CDs around, I am also worried in my particular choice of encoder and which one provides the best quality. But having been on this forum browsing thru past posting, Dibrom has mentioned that the MPC format is literally finished quality wise, and that any improvement will be made to the efficiency of the coder (eg. lowering the bitrates). My suggestion to you do download the latest MPC Encoder, and use that to archive your music, and to use this command switch "mppenc -xtreme -v" this will provide at least 99.9999% transperancy. MPC needs no more teaking, and thats the beauty of it it is easy to use, unlike LAME where we need people such as Dibrom to provide users with a preset that will guarantee quality, whereas MPC the user literally needs to know "nothing" about audio coding to be able to achieve a high quality encoding, as the default switches provide the encoded files with 99.99% quality (therefore its just "mppenc src-file.wav tgt-file.mpc" which is easier than a commandline full of switches, this would most definetely scare many users away). OGG and AAC, are also very excellent audio coders, but there are some minor issues with their quality when compared to MPC but most definetely (to my ears) are better than MP3. But both are still actively developed on, therefore we can expect bigger and better quality from those formats (I want OGG Audio with OGG Video ). I hope this helps you in your decision in picking an audio coder to encode your CDs. Also anyone elses comment would also be appreciated by me, as I am trying to further my knowledge about other encoders (OGG and AAC) progress in the quality field. Cheers AgentMil