libmpcdec

Musepack Audio Decoder

Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It is not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you cannot hear differences between the original WAV 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. Musepack is not particularly optimized for low bit rates. The encoder was designed to be transparent at the --standard setting, thus little low bit rate tuning has gone into the codec, unlike that of AAC, Vorbis, WMA, and others that focus more on this region.