On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It has always struck me how well you can tell compressed files by listening > to applause (especially the kind of applause you get at a talk or classical > music concert). > My personal experience is that classical and electroacoustic music are much > more susceptible to compression artefacts than 'mainstream' music. > > Lorenzo. Cymbals---these sound horrible in mp3 encodings. It should be fairly predictable that wide-band sounds have worse encodings. It takes more frequency content and hence higher bitrate to represent these sounds. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user