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Mafuka player and encoder
When it was released, in late 2000, the Mafuka format took the audio coding
community by storm. It promised - and "delivered" - same quality as MP3 at
a third of the file size. It seemed the obscure Dr. Keiji Mafuka had come up
with a real breakthrough in multimedia compression.
But then, people started becoming suspicious. Why did the encoder accept only
.mp3 files, and not uncompressed .wav? Why files encoded in one computer
would not decode in other machines? How come noone ever heard of such
breakthrough research going on in Japan?
Soon the truth was revealed: the Mafuka encoder was just a big prank. It
took the MP3 file, divided it in three parts, renamed the first part to .mfk
and hid the other parts very well. At decoding time, the files were merged
together again. That is why a file encoded in one computer would not work
in another.
One amusing detail is that "Mafuka" is believed to be a thinly veiled
reference to a popular profanity, "mother f**ker".
I saved a mirror of the Mafuka page here.
Big thanks to Elohe for providing this "encoder".
Date: 2000-11-20
Version: 1.0beta
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win32
Download: mfk_install.zip - 1.418kB
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