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Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps

Posted by simoniker on from the passing-the-audio-taste-test dept.

waaka! writes "Hydrogenaudio has just wrapped up a listening test of various audio codecs at 64kbps. Check out the results, where Ogg Vorbis performed quite well, scoring significantly better than WMA, RealAudio and QuickTime AAC, and kept pace with MP3Pro and HE-AAC (AAC with the SBR extensions that MP3Pro uses). Clearly, though, no codec can honestly claim 128 kbps MP3 quality at 64 kbps. The charts at the end show entries for 128kbps LAME MP3 and 64kbps FhG MP3, but these are used as high and low anchors for reference, as MP3 is really out of its league at bitrates such as these."

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  1. Who listens to 64Kbps? by cheeseguy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I wanted to listen to fuzzy FM sounding music I'd just liten to the crap they play on the radio.

    The only application this might be good for would be video files where you want to keep file size down. Streaming radio isn't much better than regular radio in my experience so I just listen to my own music.

  2. Re:Sometimes you don't need high audio quality by Tyrdium · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Function triumphs over high performance [computer modding].

    Hi, and welcome to slashdot. You must be new here.

  3. Re:CD by Abcd1234 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OOC, is it a program generating these posts, or are you actually taking the care and attention necessary to produce, by hand, these massive volumes of surprisingly well-written vitriol?