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> I heard an interview a month or two back with one of the developers of the

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> MP3 format.  He said that the real litmus test for them was the acappella

> version of "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.  Every time they thought they had

> problems with artifacting licked, they'd try to encode that song.  It was

> only when they encoded that acceptably that they felt they were successful.

That was Brandenburg IIRC, and an early FhG encoder.  Many mp3

encoders still have trouble with that track because of all the HF

content.
I know I sound like a broken record, but a format is only as good as

its encoder, and each has many different encoders.  Encoding is

NP-hard.
Monty

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