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Just because the patent has long expired and Fraunhofer says it is dead- because it can't make anymore money out if it-doesnt mean that mp3 wont be around for decades to come! Aac is better in the sense of being a more modern efficient codec, but it is noisy and prone to artifacting like introducing hiss or clicks. I've proved this to myself time and time again when checking ripped files to aac and running them through Magic Audio Cleaning Lab. Mp3 most of the time is better acoustically tuned to avoid these problems. He-aac is superb but that too is prone to loads of artifacts like hiss, clicking etc.
A good tip is to rip to wave or encode to wave whatever you do, then check it through some spectral analysis tool like Audicity or one I mention above-Magix(recode to remove any found artifacts if any?), and then drop all your wavs in LameDropbox. Check in mp3Gain for clipping later.
Mp3 will be around for decades to come. All this nonsense about FLAC sounding better is pure placebo effect, as 95% of the population older than 15 will struggle to hear frequencies higher than 16khz. Encoding to flax is just a waste of time. Lame 192kbps abr or if you must 224kbps abr is more than enough for quality! |
