> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Robert Hegemann wrote:
> Has anyone ever considered tossing the stupid bands as far as
> psycoacoustics are concerned, it seems much more sensible to do all
> calculations over the non-segmented frequence space and breakup into bands
> just for packing into the file. This would probably also make more
> sophicated masking (like temporal masking) easier to impliment.
Bands are ok, but the layerIII bands are too wide for good psycho acoustics.
Take the bands smaller (about 1/4 bark), do your calculations, and take
for calculation of the scalefactors the minimum of the calculated allowable
distortions for the psycho bands that match that scalefactor band.
Ciao,
Segher
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