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RE: [ProgSoc] Re: [PROGSOC-ANNOUNCE] [JobSoc] Call for O-Week paid jobs from Apple





On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Nigel Sheridan-Smith wrote:

1000 songs @ 4.096 Mb/song where songs are an average of 4 mins 22 seconds
long at CBR of 128 kbps encoded as an MP3

Bloody hell. Here's where it comes down. 128kbps is crap on MP3 with CBR. But 128kbps with MP3 and VBR is very close to transparent -- for large selections of music and for large selections of people. And not to mention portable listening environments :)


And ignoring your choice of encoder.

Of course, assuming no overhead from file systems, file format framing,
etc...

Marketing is so misleading at the best of times!!

It's important to have honest statistics in life. You're undervaluing that. When people tell you the dangers of drowning vs sharks, or cars vs planes, or just something consumer-driven like how much better life is if you carry around your portable music with lossy compression -- that's an eye-opener when you first hear it. You can't go round promoting to everyone that lossless compression or uncompressed CD-quality audio is the only solution for everyone. Take some reasonable assumptions, and tell them that 1,000 songs in a tiny flash-based player is really possible.


CK.

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