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Originally Posted by Brian Doolan  If you encode in 80 bit/s mp3Pro, you'll nearly double the capacity of your Walkman compared to 128 or higher, use Nero's encoder for doing that, you'll get the mp3Pro encoder from the above link. |
Don't you need an mp3PRO decoder to get the best out of that format, otherwise it's just the same as MP3?
Actually, just read up about it... Playing a mp3PRO file with a MP3 decoder will result in playback at half the sample rate. So a 80Kbps mp3PRO file will be played back as a 40Kbps file by a MP3 decoder.
As there aren't any companies currently making mp3PRO hardware (
according to Wikipedia) I'd say it's a dead format.
High bitrate MP3 or AAC is the way to go, IMHO.
(Oh, and of course, I'd recommend Apple's iTunes – it's free and it's good.
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