Maybe there's been something useful in the trolling example thread:

There was an artist mentioned, named "Pole", whose music was claimed to be hard to encode. I listened to some (lossy compressed) samples. For example, there's loud crackling noise, like taken from a dirty LP, switched on and off, used as "drums" ... . Compared to the problem samples I know, I guess that this music could be a worthy source of problem samples indeed. I think the more problem samples you know the better - right?

So my questios: Does anyone have songs of this artist (and noticed encoding problems)? Or do "Pole" test samples even exist already?

I encoded the 4 Pole albums (named 1, 2, 3 & R) with musepack standard and I heard no artifacts, so far.

I think i even tested wma9 on tracks by Pole, and heard no obvious artifacts, so in my experience, Pole is not very hard to encode.


-tm

Thanks for your answer!
So it seems like xterm has been trolling at -q 10 = 100% - and I'm still too naive.

[edit] here's space left, so I answer here:
@ the duke:
I know this is hard to predict. I meant I was naive (=too optimistic) cuz I believed that in xterms troll-post mentioned above there still could be valuable information.

naive...don't be so hard to yourself It's difficult to predict what's easy to encode and what's not.