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Not so far ago Apple announced the initiative aimed to form a kind of standard for mastering of audio content intended for distribution through iTunes Store. Mastering guidelines for audio engineers and independent musicians as well as a set of special audio tools are available on Apple site . The guidelines could be summarized as follows: If possible master recordings should be...
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According to Xiph.Org new release of popular Vorbis audio codec was out on 2012.02.03. It contains only bug, doc and security fixes (no quality improvements). Previous version – 1.3.2 – was released on 2010.11.02. The latest Vorbis encoder was added to 256 kbit/s section with the following settings: Vorbis VBR@256.4 (Xiph 1.3.3) - Ogg Vorbis, 256.4 kbit/s FBR CODER: OggEnc...
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Extensive research experiments with Galaxy S revealed that accuracy of test files preparaton for analog audio devices must be higher than we used for iPhone 4. As a result comparison of players could be unfair. We decided to prepare test files for iPhone 4 from scratch using our latest recordings of white model with iOS 4.3.5. Unfortunately there is no possibility to account the grades submitted...
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Figure 1 : Galaxy S smartphone by Samsung This smartphone by Samsung is considered by many as a competitor of iPhone 4. So we desided to add it to our new "Portable players" section side by side with its rival. The model we tested is GT-I9000 with Android "Gingerbread" operating system....
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Figure 1 : iPhone 4 smartphone by Apple It finally happened, new section "Portable Players" has its first contender – iPhone 4 (white GSM model with iOS 4.3.5 and 8Gb of storage). This “player” was chosen due to a few reasons: it is popular ...
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