Re: New lossless codec comparison, categorizing electronic music
Reply #2 – 2022-01-19 19:19:18
I thought it would be a good idea to create a new lossless comparison document. Big "Yay!" , but someone needs to kick the FLAC executives into motion on getting your improvements into the official release. Well, I tried here and here but no response yet. I also mailed Xiph.org's Monty, but haven't heard from him either. so this will not be more than "consider this" - where at least I try not to push my faves all the time: The problem here is that I really want to be able to have some kind of foundation as to why I'm including certain albums. That's why I'm listing instrumentation. The current list of electronic music has a very basic synths (Game Boy Color emulator), an album with only FM synths, a Kraftwerk album with analog synths... the idea is that differentiating on the source of the sounds used in the music is better than differentiating on something as arbitrary, vague and opinionated as genre. However, I feel unable to differentiate electronic music further then "really simple synth", "FM synth", "analog synth" and "sampling". I don't know what to put in the "Main instrumentation" column for the releases you list.Killing more birds with one stone. Actually, I'd rather have discs that "kill exactly one bird" so it might become a little clearer why a certain codec performs better on that music.Then, not what you asked about, but ... You list a CD table, but then to make it more relevant (at the cost of time & effort, and for the second item: at the risk of lending credibility to the marketing of useless end-user formats): * Multi-channel? * High resolution? There is more available by now. (Also there is much more available for free.) Yes, very true. However, as using my FLAC testbench showed me that a lot of devices do not support multichannel or high-resolution, I still think most people only use CDDA and that should really stay the focus of comparing. Still, it wouldn't hurt to expand the multichannel and high-res part beyond what I did last time.