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Audio Compression Primer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-hear-what-i-hear dept.

Hack Jandy writes "For those of you with a little extra time this afternoon, check out Sudhian's primer to all things concerning audio compression. The article details everything from DRM to CRC matrixes (with a healthy dosage of Ogg)."

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  1. Re:FLAC will live forever by delus10n0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not to mention quite a few high-end audio companies (McIntosh, Escient) are producing "media center" type appliances that directly support ripping to MP3 or FLAC. Guess what audiophiles are gonna choose?

    If you were at CES 2005, you could find FLAC-enabled devices all over..

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  2. Musepack? by delus10n0 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What about musepack? It seems like this codec is constantly passed up; yet in my own testing, and double-blind testing with friends and family, they chose the MPC files 80% of the time over OGG and MP3.

    Also, if you do a frequency analysis of the raw input compared to MPC's --standard setting output, there's very little difference, where as MP3/etc. will do a "round" or "drop off" after a certain frequency, usually 16-20kHz.

    Anyways, hydrogenaudio.org is a great site for information about all this stuff..

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