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musepack main home news community contact forum f a q general encoding decoding program overview downloads mpc for windows mpc for linux mpc for mac os x source code lib svn repository trac wiki 2024 09 29 project status the musepack audio format has been stable and robust since the release of stream version 8 in 2007 it s supported by more than 80 audio player applications as well as standalone hardware audio players many people who value high sound quality as well as data storage and processing power efficiency enjoy the benefits it enables for two decades the musepack format has been open source under the bsd license which ensures optimum freedom of usage and compatibility within any application few people in the world possess the advanced technical capabilities required to adjust the psychoacoustic model used by musepack without adversely impacting the sound quality which is already exceptional as it is there is no intention to fix what is not broken contributions to various parts of the source code are welcome as always 2012 12 29 latest news recent inquiries about audio player options available to musepackers have prompted this news item reminder our program overview page which lists several types of applications available on various operating systems and devices may prove useful the recently refreshed list includes players for android such as poweramp neutron music player deadbeef player rocket player and jetaudio and players for ios pure player media player pro and buzz player as always musepack support continues to grow and we can all enjoy the benefits happy musepacking in 2013 what is musepack musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality it s not lossless but it is designed for transparency so that you won t be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller mpc file it is based on the mpeg 1 layer 2 mp2 algorithms but since 1997 it has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code what s behind the quality claim musepack is not particularly optimized for low bitrates the encoder was designed to be transparent at the standard setting thus little low bitrate tuning has gone into the codec opposite to that of aac vorbis wma and others which focus more on this region however as can be seen on the following listening test pages musepack is always at the top ff123 s 128 kbit s group listening test ff123 s second 128 kbit s group listening test rjamorim s 128 kbit s group listening test rjamorim s second 128 kbit s group listening test examples for musepack s extraordinary quality at higher bitrates can be found on the high bitrate tests thread on hydrogenaudio it can be seen that musepack had greater success providing indistinguishable results we encourage you to contribute your results to the above thread as there is a lack of formal listening tests at high supposedly transparent bitrates musepack is fast nowadays when most desktop and laptop computers can decode mpc files at rates well above 100x realtime decoding speed may not seem as important as it used to be in fact it has never been more important low power devices that don t rely on complex instruction sets to accelerate application performance have become more widespread than ever and energy efficiency continues to be a growing crucial factor on devices supported by the rockbox firmware for example musepack is decoded faster than all other modern lossy audio formats such as vorbis and aac and faster than mp3 this translates to longer battery life 2003 2016 musepack net valid css html safe secure