[Commons-l] Audio file sizes

[Erik Moeller]

On 3/6/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then we would, either via an automatic transcoding bot or via an
> upload enhancement to mediawiki automatically generate 40kbit/sec
> (dialup) and 96kbit/sec (broadband)  versions from the lossless. These
> versions are what we'd link from our other projects.

According to your own reference, the threshold where most listeners
cannot detect the difference between compressed and uncompressed is
128 kbit/s. This, then, should be the default quality threshold we
serve, if we use lossless as a basis for conversion. I am opposed to
accepting detectable quality degradation for marginal bandwidth
savings. We're not YouTube; we should try to set a standard for video,
audio and image quality.
-- 
Peace & Love,
Erik

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