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PQ encoding

All CDs have points which the player can use to locate tracks and display timing information. This lets the user play a particular track, or program the machine to play tracks in a certain order. PQ flags marking each track are encoded onto the master at the end of the mastering stage.

Best mp3 App for Fraunhofer Encoding?

[hope this is the correct board...]

hello again...

used to use WaveLab 4 for this task ( Fraunhofer mp3 encoding)...but upgrading to v5 only gives the user 20 shots...then Steinberg tells you the mp3 plugin is no longer supoported in WL (!#$%^&*!~?).

So...since I'm a die-hard Fraunhofer man...

Does MP3 encoding cause artifacts?

Just beating a dead horse. Occasionally when I listen to my iTunes library there are very subtle pops and/or crackles. I want to find out if this is a codec compression issue or a faulty pair of monitors. It happens intermittently, like maybe it is only certain songs or certain parts of certain songs.