gizmag.com — MP3 Surround enables high-quality surround sound at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo MP3 material. It is backwards compatible to stereo MP3; a legacy MP3 device plays back MP3 Surround as high quality stereo.
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double post
boredzoMay 20, 2006
What's really needed is a practical solution for recording holophonic stereo sound; THAT will catch on, because it will require no additional hardware for the listener. And we do only have two ears.
tenchiwsMay 20, 2006
"this concept is quite old actually.""If I haven't seen it, it's new to me"
compuguy1088May 20, 2006
Unfourtuatly LAME isnt as good with encoding lower bitrates like 64 bit, though it works well with high encoding rates like 128...
bobturtleMay 20, 2006
"mp3, even at 320, sounds inferior to an uncompressed version."Very few people would have the equipment and hearing range to even tell the difference so get off of your self-important audiophile bulls**t platform and piss off.
tbobMay 21, 2006
Just felt I would say : <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/technology/Multichannel_MP3s">http://digg.com/technology/Multichannel_MP3s</a>clicking on the last page and seeing that was kinda funny (532 days ago) :)
nitro322May 21, 2006
trejkaz, you're absolutely correct. Ogg Vorbis as support multi-channel surround since its inception, I believe. In fact, I've ripped several DVD-Video discs of music concerts and the like the 6-channel Ogg Vorbis tracks. I'm a big fan of multi-channel audio, and being able to listen to it in playlist form straight for your audio collection is much easier than dealing with individual DVDs. :-)The following link provides a good high-level technical overview of Ogg Vorbis, with a lot of links for more information if you're interested:<a class="user" href="http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Ogg_Vorbis">http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Ogg_Vorbis</a>