For storage restriction purposes, audio streaming services often rely on lossy compression formats as files used for playback. In 2018, the audio streaming giant SoundCloud went from using 128 kbps MP3 files to 64 kbps Opus files, and shortly after this was unveiled, music press and users of the service claimed it to be an audio quality impairment. To investigate the reliability in these claims, listening tests using popular songs were performed, having 17 trained listeners assessing perceptual audio quality in 128 kbps MP3 and 64 kbps Opus compared to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit WAV files. When counting scores of all used audio stimuli combined, results showed MP3 outperforming Opus with statistical significance
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International audienceIn this paper, we propose a set of audio features to describe the quality of a...
Video-sharing websites like YouTube contain many music videos. On such websites, the audio quality o...
Music perception with hearing aids has recently gained attention as a clinical and scientific proble...
For storage restriction purposes, audio streaming services often rely on lossy compression formats a...
The audio quality in music has proved to be important by a broad audience. Studies show that 67,1 % ...
When listening to music, rating the overall listening experience takes many different aspects into a...
Users of audio-visual streaming services expect an ever increasing quality of experience. Channel ba...
Distribution of music files often include performing MP3 encoding, especially when utilizing streami...
This paper investigates the impact of different audio codecs typically deployed in current digital a...
…the majority of consumers seem to be unaware of this, or of the audio quality they’re missing out o...
The quality of recorded music is often highly disputed. To gain insight into the dimensions of qual...
In this thesis the Perceived Quality of Service of streamed audio is investigated. A nonintrusive m...
Sales figures suggest that the vast majority of music sales in recent decades are in digital media f...
Users of audio-visual streaming services expect an ever increasing quality of experience. Channel ba...
Since digital audio is encoded as discrete samples of the audio waveform, much can be said about a r...
International audienceIn this paper, we propose a set of audio features to describe the quality of a...
Video-sharing websites like YouTube contain many music videos. On such websites, the audio quality o...
Music perception with hearing aids has recently gained attention as a clinical and scientific proble...