Which audio format is better? This might help.

[TheBoyBlunder]

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It's an audio test. It plays the same file compressed with wma, mp3, ogg, lame and aac for comparison. Just follow the instructions provided. It is better to do this with headphones than speakers.

 

[DaveSimmons]

FLAC, it's lossless

Of course it's also about 300 MB per CD, but if you buy a 160 GB Hot Deal drive you'll have room for 500+ CDs.

BTW the main Hydrogen Audio site is http://www.hydrogenaudio.org

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

~bump~

this is a hearing test. you download the same sample compressed with the aforementioned codecs and listen to them, one by one. you don't ever hear which codec is in use until the test is finished.

DaveSimmons thank you for your opinion, but I was trying to help people decide for themselves.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder

DaveSimmons thank you for your opinion, but I was trying to help people decide for themselves.

Hence my smiley. But you have to admit that you can't get better sound than 100% equivalent to the original CD (i.e. lossless). FLAC is the audio equivalent of ZIP files.

 

[silverpig]

I encoded a few things almost a year ago using AAC. I was impressed

 

[TekViper]

this thing doesnt work for me, i followed the directions but i cant open the test files.