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will still remain exactly the same as output from Opticom Mp3 Producer

assembly optimizations do not affect the sound quality any - the output

Pentium CPU. (See the graph included in the release). Note that these

get between 5% to 12% speed increase when using 'HQ' mode on an Intel

the same time he made some assembly level optimizations to the code to

taken the internal Producer Pro codec, and made it external again. At

and 'Audioactive Production Studio'. With this release igNorAMUS has

but now only license it for INTERNAL use in 'Opticom Mp3 Producer Pro'

Since then Fraunhofer have much improved their Mpeg Layer-3 technology

Mp3s. But that was the last external MP3 codec Fraunhofer released.

program with codec support (like SoundForge and Audiograbber) could make

released the first EXTERNAL Mpeg Layer-3 codec. Using that codec, *any*

A : There are 2 types of codecs - internal and external. In 1996 Fraunhofer

Q : What is the history of this codec. How was it made?

they're no longer needed. (The Radium codec will do decoding as well).

If you have a 'decode only' or 'advanced' codec you can remove them -

to 'Control Panel > Multimedia > Devices > Audio Compression Codecs'.

A : Simply, you may have more than one mp3 codec installed. Check by going

Q : In some 'save' dialogs i have more than one 'MPEG layer-3' listed. Why?

codec installer.