Vorbis And Musepack Win 128kbps Multiformat Test

technology is sexy writes "After 11 days of collecting results Roberto Amorim today announced the results of his 2nd Multi-Format listening test: Vorbis fork AoTuV scored the highest and ranks as the winner together with open source contender Musepack closely followed by Apple's AAC implementation and LAME MP3, which improved markably since last year thanks to further tunings of its VBR model done by Gabriel Bouvigne. Sony's ATRAC3 format ranks last after WMA on the third place. The suprising success of AoTuV (compared to last year's performance of Xiph.org's reference implementation) shows the potential of Vorbis and possible room for further tuning and improvments. Take a look at the detailed results and their discussion at Hydrogenaudio.org."

Striving for innovation

[MrIrwin]

So given Microsofts stated goal to bring us innovative technology, they should throw in the towel and ship OggVorbis and derivatives with Windows, right?

markably?

[Alan Partridge]

a) Markedly
b) Remakably

Choose ONE only.

Yes, but how did Ogg do?

[Anonymous Coward]

*ducks*

Re:Compared with radio

[Polkyb]

So what do people **actually** use to listen to music in the UK?

Headphones...?

:-)

Re:best vs popular

[tomstdenis]

it's not 50 cent it's "fitty cent".

Say it like the "rapstors" say it.

Tom

We are banwidth wasters :)

[hkfczrqj]

Quoting a couple of posts in Hydrogenaudio:

a post [hydrogenaudio.org]:

What about all the /.ers?
Seems they were just interested in wasting bandwidth after all

the reply [hydrogenaudio.org]:

More than 500 people downloaded the samples through bittorrent only - not counting HTTP downloads! :B

I won't ever understand these people.

Disclaimer: I am NOT new here :)

Re:Blind testing? And "Best sound" or "Accuracy"?

[Have Blue]

some substantial numerical differences be perceived as minor psycho-acoustical differences

Well, duh. How do you think lossy compression works?