Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Encoder Turns Your Stereo Tracks To 5.1

by Josh Goldman on January 18, 2007

Download the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround player, MP3 Surround encoder and the MP3 Stereo eXtended converter. The no-cost eval apps, which are free of any watermarks, DRM or spyware, can be used to upgrade regular MP3 stereo files into MP3 Surround files. There’s an MP3 Surround streaming module too, for Internet radio stations to stream in surround sound at bit rates normally used for stereo MP3s.

I haven’t tested it out yet, but the company says it is fully backward compatible with existing MP3 players and all the downloads are available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

bpm2000 - January 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm GMT+5

I wonder how differnet itll sound from like, circle surround processing or just mixing to pro-logic. How do they decide what information goes to what speaker? Thats why i never thought messing with a stereo track into something else was never a good idea.

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gerrie - November 13th, 2007 at 2:29 am GMT+5

Wow! wonderful work, I am very happy to read and download the software for 5.1 surround output of audio files.

My sincere thanks to you all.

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James - June 18th, 2008 at 12:04 am GMT+5

I have’nt used this personaly but I have upmixed MP3 files useing Winamp and LAME, and the results are diffrent depending on the track itself.

Some tracks sound great in Surround, where as some sound offset like for example it will output more to the right and the left will sound more quieter.

Basicly my advice is to make a backup copy of the target MP3 file that you are going to upmix first, incase the results are what you wern’t expecting.

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