[BC] dueling algorithms and audio quality

Craig Bowman craig1 at shianet.org
Thu Oct 1 14:26:18 CDT 2009


Ditto..  If any of you have program directors / music directors using 
the Promo MPE (now Play MPE) site for their currents you have to go to 
Options/Account Settings/ and change the player Settings download Format 
to High Definition.  This is the only way to download the FLAC version 
of the song.

Craig Bowman

Tom Bosscher wrote:
>     A few years ago when Promo MPE first started working with radio 
> stations, we rejected their content. I had younger announcers who could 
> hear the difference between a Promo MPE cut and the CD.
>     Promo MPE ended up using a FLAC system, that my guys could not 
> differentiate the Promo MPE audio from direct CD.
>
>     But the gentleman at Promo MPE I was working with, told me about how 
> often, way too often, a music label 'person" would send Promo MPE a MP3 
> or variant as the file to send to all the stations. So then that would 
> be "upuncompressed", but of course, quality is gone by now. He told me 
> that this was a consistent problem, the recording label not wanting to 
> take the time to learn what was killing their quality.
>   



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