Rhapsody v. Urge Streaming Listening Test

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Rhapsody v. Urge Streaming Listening Test

2006-12-30 21:22:21

I think a discussion of user preferences between Rhapsody and Urge streaming audio would be interesting. However, I notice that the forum rules prohibit making subjective comparisons without backing them up with a double blind test.

What procedure could one use to do this and comply with the forum rules?

Rhapsody v. Urge Streaming Listening Test

Reply #1 – 2006-12-30 22:07:19

It'll be kind of hard to do unless you can somehow capture the same section of music encoded both ways. But if you can, capture a number of music snippets to wav both ways and then use abchr-java to compare.

Rhapsody v. Urge Streaming Listening Test

Reply #2 – 2007-01-04 08:01:31

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Windows Media Audio 9 128 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo 2-pass CBR

and I'd be surprised if they do any special processing at that rate. I'm not sure why they would use 2-pass with CBR.

I don't know what Real uses for Rhapsody.

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