At some point during late nineties, Yamaha bought the VQF technology from NTT and created their own encoder, SoundVQ.

It has features like batch encoding and recording from line-in. Quality in high quality mode is reasonable, but encoding is extremely slow. Also, it only works for 90 days then expires.

Yamaha discontinued offering their SoundVQ software line after the obvious failure of the format in becoming popular, but the web page is still available here - oops - it's now gone for good.


Date: 2002-06-24
Version: 2.60b9
Interface: Graphical User Interface
Platform: Win32
Download: vqe260b9e.exe - 1874Kb