| | MediaCoder Audio Video Glossary |
 | | Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160-180 kbit/s. |
 | | Musepack is mainly optimized for transparent encoding at the "--standard" preset (175-185 kbit/s). |
 | | In May 2004, a series of double-blind listening tests [3] (as reported on Slashdot [4]) suggested that Musepack and Ogg Vorbis (which was the 1.1 "aoTuV" fork at the time) were the two best available codecs for high-quality audio compression at bitrates around 128kbit/s, beating MP3, AAC, WMA, or ATRAC. |
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