Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Columbia University, NYC
MP3 Over 320 kbs
I'm seeing a lot of MP3 mixes that are offering 400 - 500 kbs tagged as MP3 of late.
It's obvious they are renaming the file, but I don't know what is the original source.
Anyone knows what format it is?
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Nov-02-2006 02:02
Spirit5
Nobody
Registered: Jun 2005
Location:
I believe 320 kbps is the highest bitrate an MP3 can come in. Perhaps it's another format or just mislabel. Not sure on the format..sorry. MP4 perhaps??
Nov-02-2006 02:20
OMNIFEX
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Columbia University, NYC
Its not MP4
I'm using Windows Media Player (An Old Version) for reference and it recognizes the file, but, it states format unknown.
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Nov-02-2006 02:30
OMNIFEX
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Columbia University, NYC
It is possible that you can do higher that 320 with Lame I think, I know that I have heard of some scene group doing it with the latest version of lame
Nov-02-2006 03:06
OMNIFEX
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Columbia University, NYC
Did you download the file?
The Audio Codec states Unknown in Windows Media Player.
So it's not MP3.
The Highest MP3 offers is 320 Kbs. The file I uploaded is
470 kbs.
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Nov-02-2006 03:19
Events@Spec
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Events
could be flac.
Nov-02-2006 03:38
OMNIFEX
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Columbia University, NYC
Thanks.
I'm checking it out.
Hopefully thats it.
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Nov-02-2006 04:41
OMNIFEX
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Columbia University, NYC
It's not Flac.
Any other ideas?
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Nov-02-2006 05:38
T-Soma
The Sky Was Pink...
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Chair
I think I remember hearing this in the production forum.
Its pretty pointless if you ask me.
If you think mp3 isnt high enough quality then go uncompressed.
Having mp3 at higher than 320 is just problematic.
Yes I've dled it, it says that its a 213kbps vbr. When you have a vbr mp3 some players get confused and say different compression rates. Yeah, I personally like a vbr mp3 over a cbr mp3 at 320 any day.
Nov-02-2006 06:01
jahnlay
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Johannesburg
What's the point then, you might as well just use a FLAC file.