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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by maikmerten -LAME's last quality update was over 10 years ago. Developers squeezed everything they could from MP3.
Yeah, it's very unlikely that significant quality improvement can be squeezed out of MP3 by either LAME or Helix.
It is mature and stable encoder, tested by many experienced members here.
Too bad the latest LAME versions apparently regressed here and there. Always nice to have another option.
If you believe people will suddenly change to Helix you are wrong.
All I can see in this thread is developers wasting their time on something useless only to get yelled at in return.
I think your view on what motivates people to tinker with code might be a bit too focused on the number of users. I can't speak for anyone else in this thread, but for me, it's been fun to speculate about parameters, tinker with compiler flags and reviewing and applying patches.
I hope that you, too, have a fun project, no matter its usefulness or size of its user base.