[LAU] How bad is mp3/ogg

[Monty Montgomery]

> No, I'm afraid it was nothing of the kind and extremely unscientific. I
> certainly cannot discount the possibility that my brain bypassed my ears
> and fooled itself. What is interesting, however, is that I actually did
> *not* expect to see a difference between uncompressed audio and high
> bitrate ogg/mp3, based on experiments I had conducted several years ago,
> but did. I would really be interested in taking part in some kind of
> double blind testing some time and see what the outcome is.

I'm fully aware of the effect, a skeptic at heart, and I find that I
still fool myself all the time into thinking I hear differences when I
don't.  I wrote an ABX tool because *I* needed it to use for my own
testing.

You're on Linux, right?  Just grab and build Squishyball:

svn co http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/squishyball

it's a lightweight, standalone double-blind tester.  Hand it a few
comparison files, and off you go. It runs in a terminal.  It can run
in a few modes, the manpage details them.  It's useful for
non-rigorous testing too.

Monty