Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps

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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[New Here]

No, I'm New Here

My music days are over

[Amsterdam Vallon]

I was nearly fired for sharing Phish mp3s.

Since that day, I deleted every music file on my computer, and there's no looking back.

I sincerely hope that all of you immediately take inventory of what illegal files are on your computers, and then remove them at once.

Save yourself now. If not, you will regret it. I'm doing this for your own good.

As a test, reply with a comment in which the subject is an integer value representing the number of illegal music files you currently have on your computer. This should be interesting to graph!