Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. 277
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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They are forgetting the most important codec (Score:0, Funny)
Why aren't they testing to see how things sound encoded in WAV?
That has been my go-to codec for the last 2 decades. MP3 and AAC are inferior in every way. I'll stake my entire bitcoin collection on that claim.
Re:And the point of this is? (Score:5, Funny)
They are the reason we don't all live in caves banging rocks together.
The rock-bangers created Ogg.