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If you'd like to put your encoder where your mouth is
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To much coffee today?



Nah, it just sounds accusatory... doesn't have the same ring as "put your money where your mouth is"... that's all that was meant.

What I'm trying to do? It's purely for educational reasons... we know MP3s sound quite a bit like the original file, but what IS missing? What's the difference between them? Rather than using a bunch of flowery prose, I used some basic digital audio manipulation to actually hear the difference.

Everyone plays MP3s, but no one gives any thought to how they're compressed, and if you're not part of the team that designs the psychoacoustical model, you'll probably never understand what's rejected. Kind of cool to be able to see what's not in the compressed file.

Bren R.