last time i was here, and scrounging around a bit, i finally put together what was then the more-or-less 'benchmark' encoding, as far as lossless went (at least, as far as the bitrate/file size that i was comfortable with).
i ended up doing EAC and LAME APS. what i'm wondering now is; with all of the work that seems to have been going on with aac (or possibly other formats), is there a setup that will get me as transparent (or moreso) of files in smaller file sizes?
i wish i had the space to encode both lossless and lossy, but i don't, so i've got to go quality lossy and do my best.
so....if someone wouldn't mind bringing me up to speed, that would be awesome. thanks, ladies and gentlemen.
Full Version: been gone for a bit; bring me up to speed...
QUOTE(OnlyReed @ Jan 29 2005, 11:03 PM)
last time i was here, and scrounging around a bit, i finally put together what was then the more-or-less 'benchmark' encoding, as far as lossless went (at least, as far as the bitrate/file size that i was comfortable with).
i ended up doing EAC and LAME APS. what i'm wondering now is; with all of the work that seems to have been going on with aac (or possibly other formats), is there a setup that will get me as transparent (or moreso) of files in smaller file sizes?
i ended up doing EAC and LAME APS. what i'm wondering now is; with all of the work that seems to have been going on with aac (or possibly other formats), is there a setup that will get me as transparent (or moreso) of files in smaller file sizes?
These are the results of the latest listening test.
If you are interested in AAC, iTunes 4.7 improved on iTunes 4.2 according to users. Also Nero is working on a "fast" mode that seems to produce impressive results (but may be unreliable).
The aoTuV tunings for Vorbis were merged in the main branch, so if you download it from Xiph today it should be as good as the tested version.
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