Thomson mp3PRO Demo Player is a demonstration (demo) freeware

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

 media software program by Coding Technologies which converts Waveform Audio File Format WAV files

WAV

Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...

 to a compressed mp3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 format by an estimated 50 percent.

Mp3PRO Zone states that nearly 50% more music can be held by a storage device whether CD, hard drive, or flash drive. The quality of 64 kbps mp3PRO technology is stated to be in the range between 96 and 128 kbps mp3.

Features

This demo provides playback as well as compression capabilities. This specific demo program performs one WAV file to mp3PRO

Mp3PRO

mp3PRO is an audio compression algorithm that combines the MP3 audio format with spectral band replication compression methods. It claims to achieve transparency at lower bitrates than MP3, resulting in a file nearly half the size of standard MP3...

conversion at a time. Batch conversion is not available.

Files must be 16bit PCM/WAV 44.1kHz files.

Files and size

Example of conversion of a music file:

• WAV = 45MB
• Standard CD mp3 = 7.2MB (192kbps)
• Thomson mp3PRO = 2.04MB (64kbps)