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As we described it in the sound web page, we use only NERO for the realization of MP3 CD. 

The Nero Wave Editor module possesses all the tools to realize quality files MP3

MP3 or MP3PRO 
MP3PRO
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The new  MP3PRO, from Thomson Multimedia Inc and Coding Technologies is available sine June 14, 2001. It is an improvement of the MP3. 

The MP3PRO was created to have a better quality with a size of file twice as small as current MP3. 

With MP3 it is necessary to compress at bit rates of 128 kbps to obtain the "quality CD". While with MP3PRO it is only enough to encode at bite rates of 64 kbps for the same quality but the size is smaller. 

For example a musical file of 2:05 time will be of:

  • With MP3 128 kbps, 1957 Ko
  • With MP3PRO at 64 kbps, 1005 Ko
  • With MP3PRO at 80 kbps, 1225 Ko
The founders of the MP3PRO claim that file MP3PRO can be read by the current players of MP3 but to have the superior quality you will need a player with the codec of the MP3PRO. 

To verify it a test was made with the encoder of NERO (version 5.5.4.0) and the encoder of Thomson Multimedia.

No problem to read those files with NeroMédiaPlayer or Windows Media Player, but our DVD player  THOSIBA SD-210E is not able to read MP3PRO files.

Links 
  • The demo and update version of Nero includes a 30 times trial version of MP3PRO is available on the site Nero download
  • The free Thomson demo MP3PO Player/Encoder software is avalable on Thomson-multimédia.com
 
 
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