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Snarkridden · 04-04-02, 02:53 AM

Thanks to TF I downloaded his reccommended selection (Deep dish) and expected to have to apply all sorts of new codecs to play it.

Strangely this was not the case, accidently I clicked on the file as it was stored in my download folder, and my trusty (1997) copy of WinPlay3 (FhG institute) played it fine, showing the correct bitrate (96k) and the encoding frequency (22kHz) .

Ok It's not my type of music, (machine techno) and to my ageing ears, though it sounded musical with no obvious distortion, it did lack the brightness of some of my 256k and VBR encoded material, but no doubt due to its small size will do a good job on a small memory MP3 player [walkman] where top quality is not to be expected.

I need to do more research on the file, like spectral analysis , and harmonic content measurment to get a comparison wih the best VBR [Lame] encode at a similar bitrate.

More later, no doubt?

Snark..

http://www.iis.fhg.de/audio for information
on Winplay3 etc [may no longer be currently available, but is on the net elsewhere]

04-04-02, 02:53 AM	#88
Snarkridden OpenNap Server Operator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: U.K Posts: 401	Playing MP3Pro Thanks to TF I downloaded his reccommended selection (Deep dish) and expected to have to apply all sorts of new codecs to play it. Strangely this was not the case, accidently I clicked on the file as it was stored in my download folder, and my trusty (1997) copy of WinPlay3 (FhG institute) played it fine, showing the correct bitrate (96k) and the encoding frequency (22kHz) . Ok It's not my type of music, (machine techno) and to my ageing ears, though it sounded musical with no obvious distortion, it did lack the brightness of some of my 256k and VBR encoded material, but no doubt due to its small size will do a good job on a small memory MP3 player [walkman] where top quality is not to be expected. I need to do more research on the file, like spectral analysis , and harmonic content measurment to get a comparison wih the best VBR [Lame] encode at a similar bitrate. More later, no doubt? Snark.. http://www.iis.fhg.de/audio for information on Winplay3 etc [may no longer be currently available, but is on the net elsewhere]