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One more Distributed Human Project appeared on the internet. DarwinTunes models cultural evolution using music as an example. The project assumes that there is an analogy between darwinian evolution of species and cultural evolution inside human society, that all cultural diversity exists thanks to continuous copying and modifying of previous cultural artifacts and subsequent selection and...
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It was correctly mentioned by visitors of the site that Ogg Vorbis encoders at SE are a bit outdated now. The more so as there were some developments in this field during 2008-2009. Vorbis encoder became an audio part of Theora – free and open format for multimedia exchange on the internet.  Xiph.org foundation which passionately favors the spreading of this open source format,...
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The third version of SE testing system is here. What's new: Open source portal engine Liferay is used as a basis for SE project now. It means that such collaboration tools as forums, wiki, polls, blogs and others could be easily integrated into SoundExpert. Thanks to Konstantin Pupkov code of testing engine was revised and rearranged according to portlet architecture of Liferay. The logic of...
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New version of SoundExpert testing system is ready and will be launched in a few days. In order to preserve integrity of all collected data (your grades) SE testing engine was stopped. It will be resumed after upgrade of the system. Ratings will be displayed as usually, not updated though. We'll do our best to make this transition as seamless as possible.
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A few days ago the new version of free Nero AAC Encoder (1.3.3.0) became available. According to its change log there are no significant improvements affecting quality of stereo encoding though. But taking into account that previous version (1.1.34.2) didn’t participate in SE testing at all and any version of this encoder never tested at SE at low bit rates where it usually shows the best...
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