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This article is from the MPEG FAQ, by Frank Gadegast phade@cs.tu-berlin.de with numerous contributions by others.

37 A lot of new stuff! Is this all compatible to each other? (MPEG Audio Codec Family ("Layer 1, 2, 3"))

Well, more or less, yes - with the execption of the low sample rate
extension. Obviously, a pure MPEG-1 decoder is not able to handle the
new "half" sample rates.

 

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