Dial-Up Audio Public Listening Test Opened

CaptainCheese writes "Hydrogenaudio.org's Roberto Amorim just announced the opening of their 32kps multi-format listening test, intended to test the current 'dial-up' quality codecs. From the Announcement: "The formats featured are Nero Digital Audio (HE-AAC+PS), Ogg Vorbis, WMA9 Std., MP3pro, Real Audio and QDesign Music Codec. Lame MP3 is being used as low anchor, and a lowpass at 7kHz is being used as high anchor." These codec tests are unusual in that they adhere to ITU-R BS.1116-1. The test is open until July 11th and all are invited to participate. There's more info in the original test discussion, which indicates the originator is interested in 'testing formats working on dial-up streaming bitrates' - the test page notes: 'The real arena where codecs are competing, and most development is going, is at low bitrates.'"

Re:Why bother?

[ralphart]

Actually, with talk radio, the lower the bit rate, the better, if you catch my drift.

Re:Slashdot Low Bitrate Ethnocentrism

[GregChant]

By the way, did you ever notice the lack of multimedia even on this site? Why might that be? Hmmm...

Because high bandwidth multimedia has no place on this type of news site; because it's unbelievably annoying; ...

Re:Why bother?

[geeber]

Cancel the Test! TexasDex has no use for low-bitrate music. Since he clearly speaks for everyone, the entire affair is clearly a frivolous waste of time.

Go about your business, people.

This sounds terrible!!!

[rice_burners_suck]

I just listened to this, and I can tell you that it sounds totally like crap. Here at home, I have a sound room with a bitchen 100% analog system... Vacuum tube amplifiers, gold wiring, the works. I play my records on this thing and they have that wonderful warm sound. But this 32 kps sound sounds like garbage.