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Multiformat 48 kbps Listening Test

Reply #175
I am living the anchors as-is. As I said, I was clearly able to tell apart WMA Standard and Low Anchor and found Low Anchor to be worse than WMA Standard which you are right, has a quite metallic sound.

Multiformat 48 kbps Listening Test

Reply #176
Actually, it will be interesting to see which one the testers prefer more, the lowpassed iTunes or the brighter WMA Standard with its "metallic" artifacts. iTunes has bad artifacts too, but at least with certain samples these are not as pronounced.

Multiformat 48 kbps Listening Test

Reply #177
Did I screw up:

Code: [Select]
#!/bin/bash

pushd . &> /dev/null
cd `dirname "$0"`
bin=`pwd`
nr=$1
oggdec=$bin/oggdec
faad=$bin/faad
wvunpack=$bin/wvunpack
cd ..

if [ -f "Sample${nr}.zip" ]; then
echo -n "Unpacking Sample${nr}"
unzip -qq -o Sample${nr}.zip
pushd . &> /dev/null
cd Sample${nr}
for i in *
do
case $i in
*.mp4)
echo -n "."
$faad $i &> /dev/null && rm $i
;;
*.m4a)
echo -n "."
$faad $i &> /dev/null && rm $i
;;
*.ogg)
echo -n "."
$oggdec --quiet $i && rm $i
;;
*.wv)
echo -n "."
$wvunpack -q -y $i && rm $i
;;
esac
done
popd &> /dev/null
echo "done"
else
echo "Please download Sample${nr}.zip"
fi

popd &> /dev/null

Multiformat 48 kbps Listening Test

Reply #178
Forget the last post. Does anyone have an elegant solution for decoding samples under Linux and OS X (PPC AND Intel)? Edit: Except providing samples as WAV. For Linux I could imagine using "wine wcmd /c SampleXX.bat" if user has wine installed. In that way, the same binary would be used for Linux and Windows (no trouble with possible different offsets, whatsoever).

Multiformat 48 kbps Listening Test

Reply #179
I would like to ask OS X people to use a Linux live CD for this test (Ubuntu for example). This makes it easy to decode samples (by using Wine) and I can also use the latest version of ABC-HR which works with JRE 1.5 only.

Edit: News: I have a ABC-HR version that should work with JRE 1.4, too. OS X users are asked to handle decoding of samples themselves, though. I think the script I posted above should still be available. You can also use the bin_osx stuff from my last test (in the ABC-HR ZIP).

Multiformat 48 kbps Listening Test

Reply #180
Seems like Nero has made a press announcement?
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