The MP3 format itself has been stable for decades, but advances in CPU power and memory have shifted the relationship between files and hardware, creating room for new approaches to working with MP3s.
Cjam provides both a GUI and scripting interface that allow you to process large numbers of files at the frame level. This improves on existing tools, offering faster and more flexible editing and playback.
BTW is mp3 still relevant now? It seems that AAC, Opus, and Vorbis are all clearly superior, and widely supported. What makes mp3 still worth considering?
It is incredibly relevant. MP3 is the baseline standard for lossy compressed audio. If you have an MP3, you can play it and convert it anywhere. There are definitely benefits of AAC and others, but they are not great enough to forgo the universality of the MP3 format when all you want is 2 channel 16 bit 44.1khz audio.
That said, I don't see the use of this tool. It's a proprietary tool that does basic things for which free tools (in every sense of the word) have existed for a long time now.
A lot of people (including myself) won't re-encode their existing music collections into another lossy format to avoid degradation in sound quality.
Also, as much as it sucks these days, a lot of people (including myself) are still in the Apple ecosystem (formerly iTunes, now Music.app). For these people, mp3 seems to be the best compressed format that's compatible with the rest of the world.
Seems somewhat similar to mp3directcut?
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