Le 02/12/2011 14:15, Romain Beauxis a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> 2011/12/2 Martin Hamant<[email protected]>:
>>
>> Le 01/12/2011 19:24, David Baelde a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I listened to the two files. Sometimes I feel like I can hear some
>>> artifacts, but it's really slight; I'm not sure I could tell them
>>> apart in a blind test. Anyway, I'm no expert in hearing compression
>>> artifacts.
>> I'm no expert either, but I have good hears (I don't say you haven't ;) )
>> and I can tell for sure the sound is affected, much more as it should be for
>> this bitrate.
>> But see below I have done more tests.
>>
>>
>>> I'm not sure where to go from here. It would be interesting to check
>>> what parameters really end up being passed to liblame with the two
>>> tools. Sometimes, an interface might do some adjustment on parameters
>>> to make things sound better.
>>
>>> Otherwise, if you don't want to dig into the source code of audacity
>>> (for liquidsoap, you can ask us the details) you can just try to raise
>>> a little bit the quality settings.
>>>
>> The thing is, even exporting with lame parameter -q9 ("Disables almost all
>> algorithms including psy-model. Poor quality."), I can't get it as worse as
>> the LS's one.
>> I would like to find a parameter in lame that would reproduce the noise I
>> can hear, but I can't find one to make it worse :D
>>
>> More seriously, I done some more testing. I tested a compress to 96Kbit/s
>> and compared it with the 128Kbit/s from liquidsoap. The conclusion is the
>> artefacts I hear in the 96k one is for sure not the kind of the
>> artefacts/noise  in LS one.
>> the 96k bitrate raise some "birdies" in the sound when the LS file get some
>> "noise"/tremolo in low frequencies. HF are not so much affected.
>>
>> For me, there is little chance that this quality issue to be related to
>> libmp3lame. So the question would be, may LS apply some kind of processing
>> on the file before or after the encoding step ?
> No we don't. Actually, since you are using FLAC as input, you can
> assume that PCM data fed to lame is the exact original data.
>
> However, I'v had a look at ocaml-lame parameters and I think this guy,
> which we do not use, might be a good candidate:
>    http://liquidsoap.fm/modules/ocaml-lame/Lame.html#VALset_quality
Like I've specified, this quality setting doesn't affect the sound in 
the way I have observed with liquidsoap.
What I can say for sure is even q=9 (worst) from lame command-line tool 
is far better than current liquidsoap mp3 output thru libmp3lame :/

The more surprising  in what I  can hear (and see on spectrograms 
comparing the two resulting files) is that rumble in the end/low-end 
frequencies.

>
> I'll patch our HG source to add support for it ASAP and let you know
> so you can run your tests against it.

Cool ! Thanks.

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