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It's technically good at streaming for broadcasters because, if it encodes something simple, it drops the bitrate and therefore our costs. And it sounds great too, but you wanted technical reasons... ! By the way, Virgin Radio UK's broadband streams are now proper stereo, instead of the suspicious mono-sounding version you had f...

http://audio.ciara.us/test/index.html http://audio.ciara.us/test/128extension/results.html AAC, MPC, Vorbis, WMA 9/Pro, Lame & Blade were tested at 128k vbr. MP3Pro, AAC-Pro/Plus(?) and older versions of WMA were not tested. Looks like Vorbis tied with AAC, MPC and WMA 9/Pro for first. Although it was a four way tie, Vorbis was on the low end. And LAME was only slightly lower, comming in at second. And didn't I hear in here that MPC is actually going open source? (Hmm.... I guess that woul...