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MPEGplus/Musepack
MPEGplus was a format created by the programmer Andree Buschmann. Based on
the MPEG layer 2 algorithms, he tweaked the format to a point that made it
the best one for mid-high bitrates, in both speed and quality.
The difference between SV(Stream Version)4 and SV5 is that SV5 allows stream
lenghts larger than avg. 30 minutes (a limitation in SV4).
By late 2001, the format changed name to Musepack due to potential trademark
isues over the MPEG name. At about the same time Frank Klemm took over the
role of main developer.
Mr. Klemm maintained the codec up to around mid-2003, and after that, reduced
his participation in its development to a minimum. Even though he also released
the codec sources, very little was done by third parties ever since.
Now, Musepack was indeed a great format in the late 90s and early 2000s. The
competition was quite unremarkable: Ogg Vorbis was still at the beta stage,
the only serious publicly available AAC encoder was
Psytel AAC, which was quite slow, and LAME was
far from being the fast and high quality encoder it is today.
Ever since then, Vorbis reached 1.0 release status and beyond, counting on
aoyumi's great tuning work. There is also BlackSword's ASM optimization of
aoyumi's tune, turning it into a very fast encoder. LAME progressed by leaps
and bounds, extracting more quality out of the MP3 format than previously
thought possible. And both Nero and iTunes AAC encoders were released,
bringing high quality and fast encoding for this format (at last!).
So, while Musepack lagged behind, competition quickly catch up. In that
context, where Musepack is no longer the undisputed champion of quality and
speed, its downsides become more preeminent: near to nonexistant portable
player support, suboptimal seeking, no support for multichannel streams,
no CBR support, no hability to cut and paste streams, and so on. That led
former enthusiasts to abandon the format and move on to better supported,
actively developed options. Today, Musepack is little more than a curiosity.
The official page is available
here.
I would like to thank Francis Niechcial - Guruboolez - for contributing all
the binaries here which are not credited to someone else.
Versions by Musepack Development Team
Date: 2005-02-23
Version: 1.15u
Interface: Command line
Platform: Win32
Download: mppenc-windows-1.15u.zip - 97kB
Date: 2005-01-28
Version: 1.15t
Download: mppenc-windows-1.15t.zip - 54kB
Versions by Frank Klemm
Date: 2003-02-19
Version: 1.15r
Download: mppenc-windows-1.15r.zip - 78kB
Date: 2003-01-27
Version: 1.15i
Download: mppenc-windows-1.15i.zip - 76kB
Date: 2002-12-18
Version: 1.15f
Download: mppenc-windows-1.15f.zip - 76kB
Date: 2002-10-26
Version: 1.14
Download: mppenc-windows-1.14.zip - 75kB
Date: 2002-10-13
Version: 1.13g
Download: mppenc-windows-1.13g.zip - 76kB
Date: 2002-10-09
Version: 1.13a
Download: mppenc-windows-1.13a.zip - 75kB
Date: 2002-10-08
Version: 1.12
Download: mppenc-windows-1.12.zip - 392kB
Date: 2002-08-26
Version: 1.11b
Download: mppenc-windows-1.11b.zip - 72kB
Date: 2002-08-26
Version: 1.11a
Download: mppenc-windows-1.11a.zip - 393kB
Date: 2002-07-31
Version: 1.1
Download: mppenc-windows-1.1.zip - 396kB
Date: 2002-07-08
Version: 1.06
Download: mppenc-windows-1.06.zip - 399kB
Date: 2002-07-02
Version: 1.05z3
Download: mppenc-windows-1.05z3.zip - 395kB
Date: 2002-06-28
Version: 1.05z2
Download: mppenc-windows-1.05z2.zip - 182kB
Date: 2002-06-27
Version: 1.05z1
Download: mppenc-windows-1.05z1.zip - 208kB
Date: 2002-05-27
Version: 1.04
Download: mppenc-windows-1.04.zip - 379kB
Date: 2002-05-13
Version: 1.02
Download: mppenc-windows-1.02.zip - 375kB
Date: 2002-05-04
Version: 1.01j
Download: mppenc-windows-1.01j.zip - 370kB
Date: 2002-03-26
Version: 1.0
Download: mppenc-windows-1.0.zip - 381kB
Date: 2002-01-11
Version: 0.90s
Download: mppenc-windows-0.90s.zip - 162kB
Date: 2001-12-18
Version: 0.90o
Download: mppenc-windows-0.90o.zip - 161kB
Date: 2001-12-12
Version: 0.90m
Download: mppenc-windows-0.90m.zip - 159kB
Date: 2001-11-26
Version: 0.90k
Download: mppenc-windows-0.90k.zip - 69kB
Date: 2001-11-14
Version: 0.90i
Download: mppenc-windows-0.90i.zip - 138kB
Versions by Andree Buschmann
Date: 2001-07-10
Version: 1.7.9c
Download: mppenc_1_7_9c.zip - 78kB
Date: 2001-05-06
Version: 1.7.9a
Download: mppenc_1_7_9a.zip - 78kB
Date: 2001-04-03
Version: 1.7.9
Download: mppenc_1_7_9.zip - 77kB
Date: 2000-11-24
Version: 1.7.8
Download: mppenc_1_7_8.zip - 73kB
Date: 2000-07-05
Version: N/A (SV5)
Download: mppsv5.zip - 68kB
Found by Roberto Amorim
Date: 2000-01-06
Version: N/A (SV4)
Download: mppsv4.zip - 63kB
SV4 encoder kindly contributed by Filburt (Adam)
Date: 2000-06-18
Version: N/A (SV5) - Decoder
Download: mppdec.zip - 50kB
Found by Roberto Amorim
Date: 2000-06-22
Version: N/A (SV5)
Interface: Decoding library
Platform: Win32
Download: mpplib.zip - 33kB
SV5 apps kindly contributed by Sebastian Knop
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