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That is normal commercial software library and you have to pay a license for its use. Or you might decide to use Fraunhofer MP3 encoder. like player, phone, converter software).įor the second part, if you use open-source encoder like LAME, you won't need to pay anything to its developers naturally (if you don't want to support them). (of course it was different situation, whether you was end-user, some media company, vendor, who sell a product with MP3 technology inside.
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MP3 is currently patent free (all relevant stuff expired at 2017 and five year before that in EU).Īnd even if that was active, it doesn't have anything with used encoder, you had to pay those licensing fees, regardless you've used FhG or LAME. License fee for use of patented format and then there is particular encoder software cost. There are two distinct and independent things. And AFAIK, Fraunhofer performs marginally better on low-resolution MP3 files.Fraunhofer encoder use has nothing to do with licensing requirements. Msmucr knows much more than I do about MP3 encoding, but I'll add that, while LAME long ago surpassed the Fraunhofer CODEC at higher bit rates (320kbps), many streaming services still use the Fraunhofer CODEC due to MP3's licensing requirements, so if you want (to preview) the (128kbps) encoding someone like Soundcloud is using on your files, it might be worth a look. if you drag MP3s, it will decompress them to WAVs), right click there to set encoding parameters. It is open-source, uses latest LAME underneath, has drag'n'drop interface (if you drag WAVs here, it will make MP3s. If you want something super simple (for example like free addition to what you have), then get LameDropXPd.
If you convert your audio clips to MP3 with 320 kbit CBR, then even worse encoders (mainly historically, as I've said, both LAME and FgH are superb) produce pretty much same results.
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Plus some more severe perceivable difference between different encoders comes with lower bitrates.
So no, I don't think, you'll gain anything by switch to something else. I've never tried actual NCH software, but I believe they most probably already use LAME there. I guess my real question is this: Is there something available out there that would give a better quality result than NCH Switch? Or does that already give as best quality as is possible in conversion to MP3?
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That's case for example of Pro Tools, Samplitude or mentioned software by Sonnox. It's commercial library, you have to pay for its use.īasically, when some software doesn't use LAME for MP3 encoding, it employs this FhG encoder library. The other widespread library is by Fraunhofer institute FhG. I guess, that's also reason, why old Live didn't have MP3 export and the recent version 10 has that built-in. But in both cases, it's not necessary to pay further fees to licensing organisation for the format. If they want, they can use free open-source library, or pay for the commercial one. So vendors doesn't have to worry about that issue.
Also very nice for user is, patents for MP3 (as a format) expired in 2017. Roots of MP3 format are almost 30 years old now and it's pretty much assumed, its encoders was already optimised as much as possible. However in general, MP3 encoders are pretty much solved problem. It's very mature project with lot of contribution, listening tests and continuous improvements. Development of own encoder isn't trivial and LAME has already 22 years of its development. Not just because it's free, but because it is best. In vast majority of cases, when some another software (be it DAW or some multi-format converter tool) has MP3 encoding support, it actually uses this very library underneath. But non-free doesn't mean better.Īrguably the best current MP3 encoder is LAME, which happens to be open-source library and related command-line utility. The one I am using (NHC Switch) is something I purchased and it seems ok.I see, what you're looking for. I was thinking non-free because I thought maybe you could get better quality in software you have to pay for.
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