Why does there seem to be a lack of interest in Musepack?
Reply #21 –
I think Musepack is a perfectly usable format for many reasons:
- fast encoding
- fast decoding
- great quality at -q5
- APE tags
- notably smaller filesize at -q5 than LAME -V 2
- works on all the players I have
A quick bench on my machine (FB2K, buffer entire file to memory):LAME MP3 = 171x
MPC SV8 = 272x
Vorbis = 161x
Nero AAC = 201x
I benched the lossless codecs and only FLAC (at -5, btw) beat MPC with TAK coming close behind, and WAV reigning supreme, of course.
What I like is ripping the new CD's I bring home to MPC in record time and peruse the album at leisure keeping the CD safe and the disc drive unoccupied. If my collection is incompatible with people wanting free music... well, that's tough that I'm unpopular