Re: Lossless audio books
Re: Lossless audio books Oh and one reason the new audible format sounds much better is the sampling rate was only 22550 khz for the old recordings, and it was raised to 44.1 khz, which results in a noticable increase in sound quality almost anyone would notice. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526519/#p526519 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books
Re: Lossless audio books @4It is always possible to conduct the ideal listening test on the ideal equipment with audio files that accentuate the lossy parts of the codec, and it's also only really modern stuff that's good at being lossy anyway (the last 5-10 years say). Also if you're doing the listening tests yourself it is very hard to have a control group or blind the experiment.Lossless codecs have their place, and in fact they honestly have lots of places, but these days the gap between a lossless codec and a higher bitrate lossy codec specifically in regards to listening tests has been closed to the point where blind people with amazingly expensive headphones in a quiet room are possibly the last group of people who could notice, and even then I am skeptical. Indeed, even in terms of absolute error from the original data, high bitrate lossy formats have also pretty effectively closed the gap as well these days. Not all the way or we'd call them lossless, but it's really pretty good.Suffice it to say that if someone is trying to sell you on the idea of using a lossless format for all your music or something, you should be asking where the money is. Nothing is at all wrong with using a lossless format for your music, but usually when people are throwing that idea around there is some ulterior motive. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526445/#p526445 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books
Re: Lossless audio books Yep. They switched to higher quallity like a year ago. The new quallity sounds about 5 times better then what they had before. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526427/#p526427 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books
Re: Lossless audio books audible recently switched to 128 kbps, which gives a really dramatic quality difference. And I disagree about lossess. There is definately a difference when listening on high end equipment, and I think audiobooks with music and sound effects should be played lossless ideally, where spoken narration 128 is adequate. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526426/#p526426 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books
Re: Lossless audio books Audible doesn't sound too bad if you set it to enhanced quality. It may be compressed MP3 or AAC, but it sounds fine as far as I'm concerned. I'm not an audio snob, but at the same time I don't want really crummy low quality audio. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526422/#p526422 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Lossless audio books
Re: Lossless audio books I think, as someone who has written 3 audio libraries, that lossless audio is really not a big deal at all because the best lossy formats are audibly as good while still saving you 3x or 4x the space in the worst case (but usually more), and that probably the problem is that if I'm Audible and I want to save money streaming content around all the time to the sighted people who are just going to play it on the car speakers on the way to work, I'm going to disregard all that and use the cheapest format I can get my hands on, probably extremely low bitrate mp3.Also there might be a quality setting or something, and if there's not you can probably find a competitor to audible that uses a better codec. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526420/#p526420 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Lossless audio books
Lossless audio books Hi,I have been listening to audio books from Audible and CDS that I have ripped to FLAC, and in many cases I noticed that books on CD sound much clearer than on Audible. This is especially true if their are sound effects and music in the production.I am wondering, has anyone ever thought of starting a sight that sells lossless audio books in a format such as FLAC? We have sights with lossless music, but not lossless audio books.I know not everyone can play CDS, so I feel that a lot of people are missing out on higher quality versions of audio books.I would like to know what you think about this. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526411/#p526411 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
