mp3 or not - don't you hear it?

[detfella]

Im not seeing it danny. it just goes straight to filefront.com mainpage.

soz, it truncatedd it cos i copied and pasted, try this

http://files.filefront.com/FanuTestw.../fileinfo.html

[massplanck]

Id much prefer if the clips were separate and of the exact same sample tbh. When its a passage of music thats changing how can you judge correctly against each other?

Not scientific!

[Microdot]

@microdot.

Let it go. 2 months ago we had a bit of barney and your still up for it for some reason.

mind your own business son.
wasn't talking to you.

[massplanck]

ok dad.

[detfella]

give it a shot mass & pm me your answers

anyone else going to give it a go?

[tocsin]

Ok. So here's the archive from the challenge I posted elsewhere.

http://www.septiknexus.com/challenge.zip

It's in a zip format with no compression used so the files haven't been altered. I set them up as loops so you can seamlessly repeat them. They are loops of 3 sections from "Hotel California" which I figured was a fair track to pick since it hasn't been mastered in the same way dance music is, and there's a full range of frequencies in the song.

When you are listening to the loops, they could be 1 of 3 formats:
1.) Uncompressed WAV (CD)
2.) 320 Kbit Joint Stereo Mid/Side MP3
3.) A mix of both of the above.

I have PM'd the answers to Slav for independent verification. Have fun. :)

[tocsin]

For the record, just so there isn't confusion, the actual file format of everything in that archive is WAV. This is to prevent cheating. An easy way to spot the difference between a WAV and an MP3 is to look at a file header. While the format for all of these files is WAV, I saved WAVs from MP3 for the MP3 test. Those files will sound no better than the original MP3. And best of luck to anyone spotting the mixxed files. ;)

[tocsin]

maybe your efforts were met with silence because people find you generally very tedious and lacking in charisma.

What's your excuse?

tbf, someone who spends their spare time putting loops together to play on an internet forum is more than likely a cockless wonder with no social life.

*YAWN* Yeah, it could be that. Or, it might have something to do with the fact that, after commuting 209km for work each day, on Monday through Friday I'm pretty much home at night. :) Either way, for a so-called "producer" to give another crap about that is pretty comical.

[detfella]

silence....

seems people are only prepared to do a test where their eyes only see the results

[massplanck]

No need to get upset danny. My critera would be to have full songs encoded in all the different formats, then listen to them on good quality (hifi?) speakers and then judge. Not the way that dude did it and using crappy PC speakers.

Also That track doesnt have much highend in it either ,which is where you really notice the lossiness of mp3. For the record the first 5 secs is WAV i reckon.

@Tocsin. I'm downloading that now.

[detfella]

hah hardly upset mate! just interesting that people (not only you) don't mind taking the test for their own eyes, but not when other people might see the results.

[massplanck]

Ill do it at home tonight on a set of decent speakers and post up the results tommorrow. ok? who has the answers anyway?