Tanstaafl wrote:

Has anybody out there tried using MP2 compression instead of MP3? I would be very interested in hearing of a subjective comparison between the two.

To get technical, MP3 is actually "MPEG Layer 3 - Audio". The format is allowed to use both MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 encoding methods, as both have different combinations of bitrates. The best explanation of this I've seen is the private life of MP3 frames, by the ID3 organisation.

So the answer to your question is mu.

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