[ose]

"While MP3 is much more popular for PC and internet applications, MP2
remains a dominant standard for audio broadcasting."

Why is such case? Since MP3 is popular streaming format...

What's "track" and "album" in MP3?

When applying audio normalize, what're the empirical values of parameters to
set to? How do you tell in general the quality of an audio file increased?

[Kevin T]

On Nov 13, 4:46*am, "ose" wrote:
"While MP3 is much more popular for PC and internet applications, MP2
remains a dominant standard for audio broadcasting."

Why is such case? Since MP3 is popular streaming format...

I believe its because of Video ( w audio) legacy broadcast systems /
standards favor MP2. At least in ENG

KT

What's "track" and "album" in MP3?

When applying audio normalize, what're the empirical values of parameters to
set to? How do you tell in general the quality of an audio file increased?

Huh?

[Scott Dorsey]

ose wrote:
"While MP3 is much more popular for PC and internet applications, MP2
remains a dominant standard for audio broadcasting."

Why is such case? Since MP3 is popular streaming format...

Low latency for one thing. Lots of existing dedicated hardware for another.
The broadcast guys are also heavily invested in Musicam encoding too... go
to Europe and you'll see lots of digital radios with Musicam decoding in
software. That installed base isn't going to go away.

What's "track" and "album" in MP3?

They are text field in the header, perhaps?

When applying audio normalize, what're the empirical values of parameters to
set to? How do you tell in general the quality of an audio file increased?

Set it loud enough that it sounds right, not so loud that it clips.
Normallizing does not improve quality at all, it just makes things louder.
There is no reason that everything needs to hit 0dBFS somewhere in the file.
If you have an album with loud sounds and soft songs, you want the soft songs
to be softer than the loud ones.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Mark]

"While MP3 is much more popular for PC and internet applications, MP2
remains a dominant standard for audio broadcasting."

Why is such case? Since MP3 is popular streaming format...


MP3 refers to MPEG x LAYER 3. What we call MP3 audio is the same
audio used in MPEG 2 video, the full name being MPEG 2 Layer 3.

MPEG 1 can also use Layer 3 Audio.

See Wikipedia

Mark

[Eeyore]

Scott Dorsey wrote:

If you have an album with loud sounds and soft songs, you want the soft songs
to be softer than the loud ones.

Try telling the mastering houses about that !

Graham

[Scott Dorsey]

Eeyore wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

If you have an album with loud sounds and soft songs, you want the soft songs
to be softer than the loud ones.

Try telling the mastering houses about that !

I do, and it's amazing the sigh of relief you hear when you ask them not
to crush the music.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."