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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. 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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