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The Professional Edition of the QDesign Music Codec
For Mac OS, Windows, and OS X!

The award-winning QDesign Music Codec Professional Edition is now available for Mac OS X ! The QDesign Music Codec Professional Edition is all about QUALITY and PERFORMANCE. Whether you are encoding sound for the Web or for CD-ROM, the features and technologies result in even GREATER FIDELITY.

PROFESSIONAL EDITION

The Professional Edition is designed for audio and multimedia professionals who want to deliver the highest quality audio with the least amount of time and effort. Experienced professionals also demand control over the quality of the finished product, and the Professional Edition puts codec settings in the hands of the user to optimize quality for a variety of applications.

Quality
--Retain full audio bandwidth at ALL compression levels.
--Store MORE high quality audio using LESS disk space.
--Stream higher quality audio at lower data rates.
--Extended data rates make the Professional Edition the most complete audio compression solution for streaming Web audio and for Internet music distribution.

Ease of Use
--"AutoPilot" technology intelligently and dynamically optimizes audio quality
--Simple, intuitive user interface puts compression control in the hands of the user.
--Produces the best results effortlessly.

Flexibility
--Full control over sampling rate, attack and bitrate encoding parameters.
--Real-time encoding for "live" QuickTime streaming.

Apple QuickTime (Version 5 or later recommended)
QuickTime Pro, Cleaner Pro 5.0 + or any other application that
that supports QuickTime export.
Mac OS X (v10.2.6 or greater recommended)
Mac G3 or G4 (400 MHz or greater recommended)
Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000 or XP
Pentium II, (400 MHz or greater recommended)

Get it NOW!
Version 2.1 for Mac OS X, Mac OS 9.x, and Windows
Purchase the QDesign Music Codec Professional Edition online, and download it immediately. No waiting for shipping.

QUALITY

-Minimum scalability
-Quality degrades significantly below 128kbits/s

-Maximum scalability
-Full bandwidth, stereo audio at 24 kbits/s

STREAMING

Non-standard MP3
streaming

-Download Files
-HTTP Streaming
-RTSP Streaming
(Live & on Demand)

MULTIMEDIA

Limited to ID3 tag:
can add only
text, image, link

Standard in QuickTime:
Combine with over 150
Quicktime media types:
VR, Wired Sprites, Slide Shows, MIDI, etc.

LEGAL USE

Royalties on
Implementations and Encoded Content

Use it freely!
Open and supported within QuickTime
for developers.