Re: [LAU] How bad is mp3/ogg

From: Charles Henry <czhenry@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 12 2011 - 17:46:04 EEST

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> It has always struck me how well you can tell compressed files by listening
> to applause (especially the kind of applause you get at a talk or classical
> music concert).
> My personal experience is that classical and electroacoustic music are much
> more susceptible to compression artefacts than 'mainstream' music.
>
> Lorenzo.

Cymbals---these sound horrible in mp3 encodings. It should be fairly
predictable that wide-band sounds have worse encodings. It takes more
frequency content and hence higher bitrate to represent these sounds.
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