Thus spake Peter Olufsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> But isen't it a bit unfair to compare it at 96 when Blade always
> encode stereo with no band-21 cutoff, and no and all the others joint
> stereo with band-21 cutoff ?
I don't think so.
One of the main improvements of layer 3 over layer 2 is joint stereo.
The encoder is free to use all the tricks that it knows to use the
bandwidth efficiently. If blade does not do that, then it is a bad
encoder.
I don't think that the "but it sounds better at high bitrates" argument
is valid. It is after all an audio compression program, so the main
question is the compression ratio at acceptable quality and blade sucks
in that test.
joint stereo should not be too difficult to implement in blade. If
someone does it, then there is only the psychoacoustic model that needs
to be fixed and someone has to bring blade up to speed. Personally, I
don't see any reason to use blade now that lame exists.
Felix
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