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Scmpx

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.

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Reply #1 –
EncSpot identified mp3s files as 'QDesign'. I've read not very good comments about it.

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Reply #2 –
Yeah, I've heard Qdesign is the worst commercial MP3 encoder.

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Reply #3 –
Btw, the VBR mode is the worst I've ever seen on a MP3 encoder.

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Reply #4 –
QDesign MP2 is pretty good though.

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Reply #5 –
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!

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Reply #6 –
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
-=MusePack... Living Audio Compression=-

Honda - The Power of Dreams

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Reply #7 –
Fatboy comes from Fatboy Slim's Kalifornia

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

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Reply #8 –
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?
-=MusePack... Living Audio Compression=-

Honda - The Power of Dreams
 

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Reply #9 –
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Originally posted by ff123
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.

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

Ciao Robert