MP3 and mp3PRO

Because of its good audio quality and small file size the MPEG3 audio format (with the extension MP3) has become the format most used to transmit audio data on the Internet. This is why Nero also supports the burning of the popular MP3 files - Nero handles them just like any other audio files and they are automatically decoded before burning.

You can test the Nero mp3PRO encoder plugin as soon as Nero is installed. You can encode up to 30 audio files or pieces of music from CD in the popular MP3 or mp3PRO format.

mp3PRO files can be compressed to half the size of the conventional MP3 files with the same quality. These two file types have the same extension: mp3.

MP3 Plugin

The MP3 plugin uses the brand new and ultrafast MP3 encoder from the Fraunhofer Institut, the inventors of MP3. With the MP3 encoder you can condense your favorite pieces of music down to 10 % of their original size. And with virtually no audible loss of quality! Ahead would like nothing better than to let its users create as many MP3 files as they want but we cannot do this for licensing reasons as the rights are held by Fraunhofer Institut and we would need to pay them fees. That's why you can only test the encoder 30 times. If after that you wish to continue using the encoder, you will find further information about buying the mp3PRO plugin in the Webshop.

mp3PRO Plugin

The mp3PRO plugin uses the brand new and ultrafast mp3PRO encoder from Coding technologies, the inventors of mp3PRO. With the mp3PRO encoder you can condense your favorite pieces of music down to 5 % of their original size. And with virtually no audible loss of quality!

Ahead would like to offer you the opportunity to create any number of mp3PRO files, but for licensing reasons this is not possible, because Coding Technologies owns the rights to the encoder, which means that license fees would have to be paid. That's why you can only test the encoder 30 times. If after that you wish to continue using the encoder, you will find further information about buying the mp3PRO plugin in the Webshop.

To use the mp3PRO encoder you must have Nero Version 5.5.4.0 (not a demo version) installed on your PC as a minimum requirement.

The high processing power needed to decompress MP3 files means that the maximum possible burning speed will depend on the power of your PC. As a 'rule of thumb' we can say that Pentium systems with a clock speed over 100Mhz should be capable of burning at twice the speed. Computers of Pentium II class and higher should be capable of burning 4 or even 8 times faster. Pentium III or IV PCs can achieve even higher burn speeds.

Note: MP3 files downloaded from the Internet may be damaged by transmission errors. Such problems may affect the sound. Nero displays a warning telling you if damaged MP3 files have been added to an audio compilation. During writing, damaged files are logged with the warning message 'Lost sync within the MP3 stream'.

The MP3 library used by Nero only supports the MPEG Layer3 standard format at present. A similar error message appears if Nero receives MP3 files for decoding and its MPEG3 library cannot process the file format.


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