Better quality or not?

2007-03-25 10:06:09

I have this mix at 160kbps. For some reason I wanted to get a better encode and I found it. I'm just not sure if it is really better.
2 days ago I got an album at 320kbps and it was exactly like the one I had at 128kbps. Some wise guy must have simply re encoded it from 128 to 320...
I need you to tell me if the 192 sample is really better or not.

Rapidshare has no waiting time for files under 500KB.

160kbps http://rapidshare.com/files/22671129/sample160.mp3
192kbps http://rapidshare.com/files/22671348/sample192.mp3

Thank you.

Better quality or not?

Reply #1 – 2007-03-25 10:26:22

Try an ABX test yourself with Foobar2000. If you can't tell the difference keep the smaller file.

Rapidshare and myself don't get along so I can't help you with the test.

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Reply #2 – 2007-03-25 11:13:21

I didn't ABX a difference.

But if you like this music you should really buy the CD and support the artist.

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Reply #3 – 2007-03-25 13:20:44

Ok this is all I could find...



Used the programs from this thread.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&...swPIfM8vniKM93g

So is the 192kbps better or not. :/

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Reply #4 – 2007-03-25 14:46:57

From the "guess" part of those screenshots, i'd take the 192kbps. Other than that, the only way to choose would be ABX, as already been suggested.

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Reply #5 – 2007-03-25 14:56:37

Thanks guys.
Problem solved... sort off...
After concluding the 192kbps album was better by looking at winamp's spectrum analyzer I had the strange idea to uninstall dc++...
Thus the entire album is now gone and it seems that the files can't be undeleted...
One night of downloading wasted...
I can go kill myself now. Good bye.

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Reply #6 – 2007-03-25 18:52:51

LOL

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Reply #7 – 2007-03-25 20:04:04

Yeah.. it got to me... I wanted to much perfection.
I realized 160kbps is actually pretty decent quality. Plus if you want perfection just go buy the album and encode to flac...

After I accidentally deleted it I went searching for the mix again...
I actually found some 256kbps encodes... but guess what... same thing. Same peaks, length, sound, frames.
I wonder why people do such things... (re encode at higher bitrates from low bitrate sources)
Oh and the download speed was 2KB... it would have taken me perhaps a day or more. Good thing I waked up.