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Tone
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Set the Q parameter to zero

Set the Q parameter to zero because of the speed of CPUs now-a-days -- Or a toggle switch called Algorithm: High ; Max and make the two Q=2 and Q=0 

To those who dont know, not rej; ; this is the parameter that tells it how hard and long to work with how much math to make the best compression possible -- the one that has nothing to do with file size or compression amount, but quality of compression,

Is called Psi Acoustics

Testing.(Sig Update Problems): Its going to take about 3 weeks to turn this 3:00 long Caustic Sketch into my first Caustic song:

http://mboxmp3.com/u/68D.mp3

Tone
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WHat i just wrote applies to

WHat i just wrote applies to LAME. i dont know how the others work

Testing.(Sig Update Problems): Its going to take about 3 weeks to turn this 3:00 long Caustic Sketch into my first Caustic song:

http://mboxmp3.com/u/68D.mp3

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Looks like the mp3 patents

Looks like the mp3 patents are actually starting to expire.

Boop: https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3....

Bop: http://hackaday.com/2017/05/14/patents-on-mp3-format-due-to-expire/

So maybe you could... cough "contact the developer" of this app and see about merging it into Caustic 3 for real. cheeky

Hi !

TheRektafire
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I actually read about that on

I actually read about that on r/linux a few days ago :D

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Yes, in the US, the last

Yes, in the US, the last remaining mp3-related patent expired on April 16, 2017, according to Wikipedia. In the EU, it has been patent-free since 2012.

While I'd personally rather see support for modern, preferably open-by-design, formats like FLAC and/or Opus (the superior successor to [Ogg] Vorbis), it seems Soundcloud still transcodes (for streaming) everything that isn't already a 128kbps MP3, so perhaps there are still valid corner cases for MP3.

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