The main difference between the Professional Edition and the Basic Edition of the QDesign Music Codec is in the level of control over compression ratio and quality. The Basic Edition offers good quality audio encoding at selected bitrates. The Professional Edition offers advanced perceptual coding parameters that allow the user to further optimize audio fidelity depending on the audio type (i.e., speech, orchestral music, male/female vocals, etc.

The Basic Edition of the QDesign Music Codec is shipped as the standard music codec for Apple QuickTime. The Professional Edition of the QDesign Music Codec is available for purchase directly through QDesign Corporation or authorized resellers.

Open an uncompressed audio file with QuickTime Pro. Go to the File menu and select Export... Export As should be set to either Sound to AIFF or Movie to QuickTime Movie. Press the Options... button. If you have chosen Sound to AIFF as your export type then skip to step 6. If you have chosen Movie to QuickTime Movie then you need to press Settings... in the Sound area. Set the Compressor to "QDesign Music Codec". Set the desired Rate, and Use. The Size must remain "16 bit". Press the Options..

The QDesign Music Codec takes a fundamentally new approach to encoding audio for low bitrate applications. Older technology, psychoacoustic codecs (such as MPEG, AC-3) analyze the audio through static filterbanks or transforms, which are used to approximate the characteristics of the human auditory system.

Yes. The QDesign Music technology is available for licensing directly from QDesign Corporation. Please contact us for more details.

HotOffice offers you a choice of service depending on your organization's needs. Both editions give you the same intranet communication and organizational tools, yet the Professional Edition includes up to 100MB of storage per account, SSL encryption and IMAP4 and POP3 access. In addition, the Professional Edition allows you to maintain your own domain name and seamlessly integrate your HotOffice Intranet within your organization's website.

Araxis does not currently offer network (floating) licences or site licences for Merge, although we are aware of strong demand and will consider offering network licences in the future.

The features of Windows XP Home and Pro are very similar. Most home users have no need to the Professional version. Windows XP Pro has support for multiple processors and an encrypted file system. There are also a few other differences, check them out here.

The Professional Edition comes with a bunch more controls--although the basic functionality is the same.

The primary difference between the Standard Edition and the Professional Edition is a simple operational rule: the Standard Edition is not allowed to store anything on the HTTP server that it runs on. This precludes the Standard Edition from offering some of the features that you might expect to see in a mail client, such as folders, address books, user signatures and other persistent settings.

A codec is a downloadable software encoder or decoder for a particular media format that is geared towards a specific computer platform. Codecs function much like plugins for browsers, and are used by players or authoring software to work with the specific media type. Most codecs that you will come across are decoders that are geared to presenting media content to players.

We have 4 editions in version 4.0. PE, PE+, Pro and Ecommerce. PE is our free version, it has less functionality than other editions, but still delivers a lot. PE+ is our entry level paid version, it adds many of Pro's features to PE at an affordable price. PE and PE+ do not support multiple page groups and are great for personal and casual users. Pro is our edition for professional web builders It adds multiple page group support, robust security and much more.

Yes, you may customize reports. You can add your own logo (Edit Profile - Appearance - Logo) on reports. You are not restricted to the number of users that you want to create reports for per user license (except for Standard Edition) but you must have a user license for every computer that you want to install the program on.

The Deluxe edition (1) adds other types of host testing: TCP connection, Windows file shares, Windows services, web servers, and support for optional plugins, (2) provides additional alert methods: play custom Wave files, launch external applications, and submit form data via HTTP, (3) can be run in the background as a Windows service, and (4) adds an internal web server for viewing and managing hosts remotely.

The Small Builder Advantage is a basics-only package, intended for smaller companies, subcontractors, and startup companies. It does true Job Costing, has a powerful Payroll, does Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger. It does W-2s, 1099s, Billings, Financial Statements, etc. It has a built in Contact Manager and the capacity to do "modeling" or forecasting and projections, in case someone is building a Business Plan or is forecasting future capital needs.

Absolutely not. Our high quality sheet music is written by our staff, edited by professional musicians and stored as PDF files with a 1200 dpi resolution.