The company that brought you the MP3 format, Thompson, has announced a proprietary alternative to the FLAC format dubbed MP3HD.
MP3HD is a lossless format with music bitrates averaging from 500 to 900 kbps (depending on the genre). The big bonus about the new format is that it is backwards compatible with your standard MP3 format. Furthermore, MP3HD will utilize the same .mp3 extension (which brings with it some advantages and disadvantages). Thomson state that an average Rock track will encode at around 876 kbit/s giving an overall size of 26MB.
All we have to go on is provided figures because it does not appear that an encoder is available for us to perform any sort of side-by-side comparisons.
“Find me an MP3 player that supports MP3HD!”, I hear you say. Well, All4MP3.com have announced that the yet-to-be-released Samsung IceTouch or YP-H1 will be the first MP3 player to include an MP3HD decoder for playback.
APE, FLAC and MP3HD – this could get interesting…
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wonea
on Mar 12th, 2010
@ 9:28 am:
No thanks, I’ve got a massive flac collection already. Why add another codec into the mix when it’s not better than CD-quality? Why not partner with labels and give us true HD 5.1 audio, like what DVD-audio, SACD was.
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on Jul 18th, 2010
@ 2:01 pm:
I think I will still take my 90% compression of MP3 192kbs over a 30% compression MP3HD, Since CDs are only 192kbs you wont gain anything from using this format unless you have access to extremley high quality source material.
Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/is-mp3hd-the-future-of-digital-music–589674#ixzz0u3fbhiu4