> >Are you (Tobin) saying that Pro Tools users won't use the mp3 features? >Don't you think that maybe Pro Tools put that feature in because the "pro" users asked for it? >MP3's are not necessarily geared to the "non-pro" market but rather to those who wish to put their music on >the net and easily and quickly exchange music or musical ideas . It's just a quicker, different way to >exchange music. Why do you need mp3 encoding in Logic? You can do it so easily so many other places. Maybe 'pros' do use mp3s but I don't see the point in adding it to logic. Besides, it makes more sense adding it to a masetering software program like Sound Forge - you don't want to encode until you've done that anyway. MP3 playback in logic would be pointless. It's pointless because it takes more power to decode and play an mp3 stream than a wav file, and the quality of the mp3 would really show after a few DSP algorithms had been used on it. The idea of doing premix in mp3 and then finalizing with the original waves is cool, but wouldn't work, because the mp3 stream takes more horsepower than the wav would. Perhaps you could save a few megabytes, but it wouldn't be worth it to anyone - you can buy a 10 gig disk these days for under a $100. >Even Cakewalk has mp3 encoding (also using Fraunhofer's MP3Enc) >I'm not saying that cakewalk is a "Pro" Program, but it is the most used Windows Program. > >I just feel that Emagic is ALWAYS just a step behind their competitors. > Ermm, if all your competitors jumped off a bridge... I'm curious - could you tell me what you would use mp3 encoding in logic for? What could you do with it you couldn't do with an external mp3 encoding app, like we all do already?