Comments on: MPEG-4 ALS (Audio Lossless Coding) is Ready http://www.c10n.info/archives/297 All about the most recent compression techniques, algorithms, patents, products, tools and events. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jim Lindner http://www.c10n.info/archives/297#comment-701 Jim Lindner Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:05:30 +0000 http://www.c10n.info/?p=297#comment-701 Yawn. Why would ANYONE want to compress audio in any way that wasn’t lossless? The bandwidth is so weenie that it is a non-issue in almost all applications (yes even including cell phones). Too little too late. This should have been part of the standard from day 1 - and the licensing cost - unknown.... This standard has done more to shoot itself in the foot then any other one I have even known of. It is too late for MPEG4 - the world is moving on. Several years ago - in the words of Jake Lamotta - "they could have been a contenda" - now it is all catch up and there are lots of alternatives. As bandwidth increases in virtually every app/media type and storage cost continues its steady march toward $0, lossy technology makes no sense - audio or video. Nice they finally woke up. Yawn. Why would ANYONE want to compress audio in any way that wasn’t lossless? The bandwidth is so weenie that it is a non-issue in almost all applications (yes even including cell phones). Too little too late. This should have been part of the standard from day 1 - and the licensing cost - unknown….

This standard has done more to shoot itself in the foot then any other one I have even known of. It is too late for MPEG4 - the world is moving on.
Several years ago - in the words of Jake Lamotta - “they could have been a contenda” - now it is all catch up and there are lots of alternatives.

As bandwidth increases in virtually every app/media type and storage cost continues its steady march toward $0, lossy technology makes no sense - audio or video. Nice they finally woke up.

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