Re: (idm) new public enemy mp3/4s

From Mark Barton
Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 09:12

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Wicks <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: (idm) new public enemy mp3/4s


>
>
>---Rodney Perkins <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Heres some slightly relevant musical content. Public Enemy just put
>a new
>> track called "Swindlers Lust" in both MP3 and MP4 (huh?) at
>> http://www.public-enemy.com/mp4/index.html. Get it before Def Jam
>comes a
>> knocking (any minute now). P. E. gets total props for doing this.
>The track
>> ain't bad at all.
>>
>
>Everybody here should check out the MP4 deal...very interesting.  It's
>sort of like a self-executing audio file..you don't need a player or
>anything.  And it sounds really good.  Does anybody have any more info
>on this format?


the audio segment of mpeg4 gives you a ' palette ' of compression tools for
achieving low bite rate audio . i suspect that the flavour of compression
used here is the ' general audio coding tool ' , which is pretty much based
on mpeg2 AAC audio coding but souped up a little bit to include a few new
extra tricks .

check out the mpeg home page at http://drogo.cselt.stet.it/mpeg/ for the
whole lowdown . the spec got publically released about 2 / 3 weeks ago .

hope this is some interest ?

mark b .