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Thursday, 02 May 2019 MP3 SX successfully created an MP3 Surround file, but during playback most of the sound seems to come only from the center channel. What’s wrong? The resulting audio redistribution of the conversion process depends on the stereophonic...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Which operation systems and platforms are supported by MP3 Surround Evaluation Software V2? The Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player V2 and the MP3 Surround Encoder run on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP with Direct X 9.0 installed, and on Mac OS X....
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What are the stages involved in getting a track from an audio CD into an MP3 file and then playing it? Use a CD Ripper program such as WinDAC to copy the track from the audio CD onto your computer’s hard disk, creating a huge conventional...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What are the hardware requirements for playback of MP3 Surround files? You can play back MP3 Surround files on any existing MP3 player or device in excellent stereo quality. To enjoy the full surround experience on a PC or Mac, your computer...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What about copying MP3 files onto a writeable (recordable) CD (CD-R or CD-RW)? It is perfectly feasible to record a set of MP3 files onto a writeable CD in CD-ROM format and play it using a program such as WinAmp on a computer. A 650MB CD will...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I play regular stereo MP3s with an MP3 Surround Player? Yes, MP3 Surround players are able to play back regular stereo MP3 files. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How can I purchase an unlimited version of the MP3 Surround software? The software is unlimited for personal and non-commercial use. For commercial licensing, please contact our official licensing partner THOMSON on www.mp3licensing.com. top of...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What are the quality parameters of a conventional WAV file? The Golden Rule: the higher the quality, the larger the file. The method of encoding, for example PCM (pulse code modulation). I do not know how much effect, if any, the method of...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I play MP3 Surround files with my DVD or MP3 players? MP3 Surround files play on all conventional MP3 players and devices in excellent stereo quality. The next generation of DVD players may support MP3 Surround, enabling the user to enjoy the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How can I listen to MP3 SX? To play back MP3 Surround files created with MP3 SX, an MP3 Surround Player or Decoder of Version 2.0 or newer is required. With the MP3 Surround Player 2.0 available in the download area, surround content can be...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is a codec? A codec is piece of software which contains a coder-decoder algorithm for sound. Some people call it a coder-decoder while other people call it a compressor/decompressor. The coder (compressor) is used when creating the sound...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How can I tell whether an MP3 file contains surround data or not? Currently, there is no separate tool available to detect surround data in MP3 files. MP3 Surround enabled players detect the embedded surround information automagically and play...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Why do I receive error messages from the MP3 SX Converter with certain input files? Probably, the files do not meet the current specification for input files. MP3 SX currently only supports input files with the following properties: A valid...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is PCM? PCM is Pulse Code Modulation. The volume of the sound is sampled at regular intervals, extremely frequently – thousands of times per second. Each sample is converted into a binary number and that is stored in the file or...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I convert an audio CD to MP3 Surround? First, encode the audio CD to the MP3 stereo format (e.g. with a third-party application), then use the MP3 SX Converter to create an MP3 Surround version of the files. top of the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Some MP3 stereo input files are rejected with «Error in mp3 input», even though they seem to meet the above specification. Why ? These MP3 files may have synchronisation errors in the MP3 bitstream which are compensated through...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is DAC? DAC is short for Digital Audio Converter (i.e. a CD Ripper), or Digital Audio Conversion, i.e. the copying of tracks from an audio CD to a computer’s hard disk. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I convert MP3 files to MP3 Surround? Use the MP3 SX Converter to create an MP3 Surround version of the files. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 MP3 SX successfully created an MP3 Surround file, but during playback there`s not much ambience sound coming from the rear channels. What’s wrong? One design goal of MP3 SX was not to introduce artificial reverberation (or similar...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is Ogg Vorbis? Ogg is an alternative highly compressed lossy audio file format. Vorbis appears to be the company which invented it. Various Ogg encoders are available for download free of charge from the Vorbis web site. There are no Ogg...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What software supports multi-channel playback of MP3 Surround files? The Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player V2 available from this web site supports multi-channel playback of MP3 Surround files on Windows or Mac. For Windows, there is also a...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is MP3 Stereo eXtended (MP3 SX)? MP3 SX is a utility for automatic conversion of two-channel content to MP3 Surround. It guarantees playback with a stable localization of singers and instruments even off the sweet spot. Additionally, it...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is MP3 Surround? MP3 Surround is a format for storing compressed multi-channel audio material. It allows encoding multi-channel sound data in high quality at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo material. Most...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What processing power is required for playing MP3 Surround? The Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player V2 runs smoothly on CPUs of 600 MHz or more. Decoding the six channels needs around three times the processing power of decoding stereo MP3. top of...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What happens to my Tags (e.g. ID3) of the original MP3 Stereo input file during the conversion process? ID3 V2 tags in MP3 Stereo input files are supported and should be available in the MP3 SX output as well. ID3 V1 tags are currently not...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is MP3 SX? MP3 SX is a utility for automatic conversion of two-channel content to MP3 Surround. It guarantees playback with a stable localization of singers and solo instruments even off the sweet spot. Additionally, it creates an impressive...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can MP3 Surround streams be output through an S/PDIF connection? Yes, in the same way as MP3 streams. top of the page Sandkasse | Spill | Banjo rules | Music in Vegas | About Us | Site Map | Contact Us | ©2005 bestmp3links...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Do I need a WinAmp skin? What happens if I try to run WinAmp without a skin? You do not need a skin in order to run WinAmp. WinAmp works perfectly without a skin – or rather, it works perfectly with the skin which it has by default when you...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is Ensonido ? Ensonido is a technology for enjoying surround sound on any set of stereo headphones, simulating the natural reception of multi-channel sound by the human ear. Ensonido calculates the sounds that reach the ears from both...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Does MP3 Surround support surround configurations other than the 5.1-channel setup? Yes, although the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Evaluation Software V2 is limited to a 5.1-channel configuration. Future versions of MP3 Surround encoders and...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is a WinAmp plug-in? A WinAmp plug-in is an optional set of files which adds extra facilities to WinAmp. There are two main types of plug-in: Visualisation plug-ins. These produce displays which react to the sounds being played. Some are...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How can I make sure that my ‘.wav’ file contains 6 channels? On a Windows PC you can view the file properties of the ‘.wav’ file via the context menu (right mouse button, Properties, File info). Files that can be used with...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Do I need a WinAmp plug-in? What happens if I try to run WinAmp without a plug-in? You do not need a plug-in. WinAmp works perfectly without any plug-ins – or more correctly, it works perfectly with only the plug-ins which come with WinAmp...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How can I create an MP3 Surround file? You need the MP3 Surround Encoder available for download in the download section. With this tool MP3 Surround files can be encoded from an uncompressed 6-channel ‘.wav’ file. You can also use the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What data rates are supported by the MP3 Surround Player V2? The MP3 Surround Player of the Evaluation Software V2 supports all common bit rates. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What does an MMSYSTEM326 error indicate? If an MP3 WAV file is played on a Windows 95 PC without the necessary codec, the file will not be played and an MMSYSTEM326 error will occur. You need to obtain and install the required codec – see...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What data rates are supported by MP3 Surround? MP3 Surround supports data rates from 128 kbit/s or less to 320 kbit/s. To achieve high audio quality, we recommend using data rates not below 160 kbit/s. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Certain MP3 files don’t play on the MP3 Surround Player 2.0. Why that? There are two possible reasons: Either the files do not contain valid MP3 data, or there are certain special characters in the file name or file path, like apostrophes....
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What do I need to play MP3 WAV files? In order to play MP3 WAV files, you need a sound board and external speakers, any program capable of playing conventional WAV files, and also a suitable codec for playing MP3 compressed WAV files. A suitable...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How is the sound quality of MP3 Surround compared to other surround formats? If a high audio data rate is chosen (i.e. 160 kbit/s or more), MP3 Surround provides a multi-channel audio quality that is substantially higher than that of the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What data rates are supported by the MP3 Surround Encoder available on this website? The MP3 Surround Encoder with user interface available on this website supports 192 kBit/s at a sampling rate of 44.1 and 48 kHz for 5.1-channel surround...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What do I need to create my own MP3 files? To convert conventional WAV files to MP3 files you need an MP3 encoder program. A large number of these programs are available for downloading on various web sites. The BladeEnc encoder works very well....
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Which operation systems and platforms support MP3 Surround? MP3 Surround software is available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Implementations on other platforms, e.g. embedded devices, are possible, if they are multi-channel audio enabled. top...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What data rates are supported by the command line MP3 Surround codec available at www.all4mp3.com? The MP3 Surround command line encoder can handle data rates between 128 and 320 kbit/s at sampling rates of 44.1 or 48 kHz for 5.1-channel surround...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I record streamed audio such as web radio? One way to do this would be to use a program such as Total Recorder (from www.highcriteria.com), which will let you record *anything* which is playing on your system – then you could just play...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is SDMI, and will it stop me listening to MP3 music? The object of SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) is to allow the «owners» of music, the copyright holders, to produce digital files which they can control, i.e. files which...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is mp3 legal? Yes, mp3 is just a file format. Like most things, it can be used legally or illegally. Its legal to play mp3’s as long as the copyright holder of the mp3 has granted permission to use the mp3. That can either be through...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I’ve downloaded a song as a «zip» file – how do I get to play it? OK… there isn’t one simple answer, because when you download a song and it has a zip extension, it could be one of two things: 1) An MP3 file,...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Where can I get MP3 Software for my Mac? A good place to start is www.pure-mac.com/mp3.html – they have links to players, rippers, encoders and other utilities for the Mac, freeware, shareware and commercial, with little write-ups on the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What are MP3 ID tags? ID taggers are a way to add information to the mp3 without putting it into the actual name of the file. Most newer encoder programs can do this automatically. Try our utilities page for some ID3 taggers. top of the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is there software for editing MP3 files? Editing MP3 files is tricky since MP3 is frame based, and frames may also have interdependencies. There are programs that will perform some basic slicing of MP3 files. Here are a couple: MP3Cutter:...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Why buy a CD burner rather than just adding a bigger hard disk? Having lots of hard disk space is great, but there are still lots of reasons for having a CD burner: 1) Expandability – if you collect a lot of MP3, no matter how much hard...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is Shoutcast? Shoutcast is a method of Streaming MP3 across the internet. Sites that stream mp3 audio are called (strangely enough), Stations. Shoutcast works with WinAmp 2.2. Since its MP3 and WinAmp, its ultra high quality sound –...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 If I convert MP3 to WAV for editing, won’t I lose quality when I encode to MP3 again? Yes, there is some additional loss of quality when you re-encode to MP3… so you should certainly try to avoid doing this sort of thing repeatedly....
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I buy a player to play MP3 in my Car? Check out http://www.empeg.com/ – they have a unit, but it seems to be hard-disk based, and I’m not quite clear how you’re expected to get your MP3 files into the unit – it has a...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I use the WinAmp MiniBrowser ? At the bottom of the Minibrowser is a toolbar. The two icons on the left are back and forward arrows that work just like a browser. The red button is a stop button. The circle arrow reloads the current page....
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is a good, cheap WAV editing program? Goldwave, from www.goldwave.com – it allows you to try it out without imposing onerous conditions, and it’s quite cheap to register. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I run an FTP server myself to share my MP3 files? You can run FTP server software on your PC, but there are a number of issues: 1) If you’re on a dial-up connection your limited bandwidth will make it deadly slow, even if you only allow...
