Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011].

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 24, 2011 @10:56AM from the listening-for-artifacts dept.

The folks at the Hydrogen Audio Forums have for years been benefiting the world with their patience, technical skills, and hyper-focus on sound quality, by comparing the real-world sound of various codecs and bit-rates for audio encoding. Under the scope for the latest public listening test (slated to run until July 27) are the following AAC encoders: Nero 1.5.4; Apple QuickTime 7.6.9 true VBR; Apple QuickTime 7.6.9 constrained VBR; Fraunhofer (Winamp 5.62); Coding Technologies (Winamp 5.61); and ffmpeg's AAC (low anchor).

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What? by Frosty+Piss · 2011-07-24 11:02 · Score: -1, Troll

Good grief, one wonders what exactly Slashdot "editors" are paid to do? Certainly it can not be "editing" the summaries...

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Re:Lame by DigiShaman · 2011-07-24 11:10 · Score: -1, Troll

Yes, I know that. But I would have loved to see one of the best MP3 encoders thrown into the mix.

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Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-24 11:15 · Score: 0, Troll

When you and your buddies are having a cum-guzzling contest, do you love it when somebody throws a nice fat turd into the mix?