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After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test
kwanbis writes "After more than four years, a new MP3@128kbps listening test is finally open at HydrogenAudio.org! The featured encoders are: LAME 3.97, LAME 3.98.2, iTunes 8.0.1.11, Fraunhofer IIS mp3surround CL v1.5, and Helix v5.1 2005.08.09. The low anchor is l3enc 0.99a. The purpose of this test is to find out which popular MP3 VBR encoder outputs the best quality on bitrates around 128 kbps. All encoders experienced major or minor updates that should improve audio quality or encoding speed, and we have a totally new encoder on board. Note that you do not have to test all samples — it is a great help even if you test one or two. The test is scheduled to end on November 22nd, 2008."
I'm not too worried about the quality of my music. Since I mostly listen to noize, industrial and EBM, the occasional scratching, pop, siren, explosion, grinding metal and screaming only accentuate the already apparent awesomeness of what I'm burning holes in my ear drums with.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Wow, what a mess. Download this package. Now download fourteen more packages (DownThemAll is the only reason I didn't give up right then). Y'know, I'm kinda interested in this subject, as I have no trouble hearing artifacts in most 128kbps CBR MP3s, but this is just a huge pain in the ass. Wouldn't a simple Flash app have made things so much easier?
I gave up at step 3751 "Buy Monster cables". ;-)
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Hey, I still listen to only 128 Kbps mp3 (and some AAC). It saves space. If I accidentally obtain an mp3 of higher quality, I downgrade it to 128 Kbps.
And I'd be even more surprised to see a moron who paid $200,000 for fuckin' speakers to admit otherwise.
Why switch back to WAV when you can have your music played at 192000 Hz and a 48-bit volume scale?
use a pair of headphones.. after you're done listening to a sample, rotate the headphones and play the sample again to hear the other channel of audio. Then you will be ready to rock & roll.
Then imagine how good $200,000 headphones would be. They'd include an extra large driver to place on your torso for deep bass.
Sam ty sig.
Some of us (most of us) have more music than you have. 500MB (0.5 Gig) as you so eloquently put it is only a few minutes of music. I have about 500G (~21 days) of MP3-compressed music
Ha, you point out his mistake and you make your own. Unless you have those mp3s stored at 2311 kbps.
All this work for some LAME encoding...
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.