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Topic: Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O (Read 126897 times) previous topic - next topic
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Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #100 –
Update.
If you are allocated by the website as odd group and you are willing to donate more, please test:
sample 37 13 21 39

If you are allocated by the website as even group and you are willing to donate more, please test:
sample 12 16 18 20 26 28 36 40

We are close to the September 12th deadline.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #101 –
When you can't download the samples due to 403 error, you can click "Toggle Server location" and you can download.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #102 –
Quote from: 2Bdecided on
Anyone who has never bothered with the ABX screen will have missed a useful feature there: you can knowingly listen to each of the codec samples.

Yes, it's a smart strategy. Set any non-original sample as sample B and press "Play B (w)"!


Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #103 –
The deadline is 24 hours from now (September 12th). Please be careful not to forget to send mail to us.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #104 –
Update.
If you are allocated by the website as even group and you are willing to donate more, please test:
sample 16 12 20 18 40 36 26 28

If you are allocated by the website as odd group and you are willing to donate more, please test:
sample 21 37 39

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #105 –
Thank You, Kamedo2.

You have commented me that Sample16 needs results most of all. So I will ask people please to submit some results for this sample.

And of course some results for any other samples will be great too.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #106 –
One of our donator kindly told me that people in Europe have less time if we use JST.
Sorry, I imagined it backward.

We will accept results as long as there is a timezone which is September 12th.
So we will accept results until 11:59 September 13th UTC.
In this way, people in Hawaii should have no problem testing in September 12th.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #107 –
We currently need results of sample 37, 12, 16, 18, 20, 36.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #108 –
We currently need results of sample sample 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 36, and sample 37, 29, 24, 26, 28, 30, 39.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #109 –
It is 6 hours 17 minutes before the deadline. The results of 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 is few now.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #110 –
1 hour before the deadline. If you have time, please simply test in the order suggested by the website, and please don't forget to mail the results.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #111 –
We have just closed the listening test. There were 38 participant, with 339 valid results.
Thank you for all the people participated in this test!

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #112 –
Yeah! 

Eager to know the final output.  Which codec has produced the highest quality.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #113 –
Awesome, can't wait to see the results.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #114 –
Breaking news:

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #115 –
Oops. we don't include "our" results, Kamedo2 and Steve Forte Rio.
Still we have so much accuracy.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #116 –
Thank You very much, Kamedo2 and  Steve Forte Rio.       

Outstanding job.

Participants did a great job too.
 

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #117 –
With all 339 results. Opus Wins and Apple AAC comes second.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #118 –
First of all, thank you for organizing this test! Your efforts are much appreciated as there aren't much tests   

The results are interesting. Through all the testing it seemed to me that there were 2 encoders clearly inferior to both others (anchors left aside). With some samples, there was one encoder (almost) impossible for me to abx. I supposed this better one was Apple AAC. Now I'm surprised that Opus had come out as the best one. Not a single Opus sample got rated below 4.0. But overall, I'm surprised how good have become encoders at around 100kbps bit rate.

I haven't played with Opus though I listen to some online radio with Opus streams at 64kbps (which sounds very good). How come it's so good? I'm impressed.

Once again: Thank you guys for having organized this test!

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #119 –
Great work, wouldn't have expected Opus to win by such a clear margin. The only thing I'm still curious about now are the single results of the testers, including my own of course.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #120 –
The score vs bitrate of each track.

Public Multiformat Listening Test @ ~96 kbps [July 2014], AAC, Opus, O

Reply #123 –
Very nice. Thank you, Kamedo2, thank you, IgorC, and thanks to all who took part in our test!

Now I'm surely going to convert my music to Opus --bitrate 96 and to listen it on my portable player with no worries about possible annoying artifacts

🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!