Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

Cann you consider shanon to build future sub files in higher lossless quality (wav, flac, alac, mp4) and with 24 bit and at least 48khz cd qualoty seems not to be enough for future sub quality amd 6g

Lossless quality is not an issue for encoding. I can do that. It won't make much difference, but I can do it.

As for the rest, I can guarantee you that working in 24 bit and/or 48 kHz is not going to help improve the results of these programs. The difference between what I'm using now, and those settings, is so minor that the cost to benefit ratio is hugely in favor of what I currently use - which is why I currently use that instead. The cost is huge files, which would eat a lot of space on our servers and a lot of bandwidth, and take much more space on your disks and players. The benefit is virtually nonexistent in comparison.

I just did an experiment encoding a copy of my 6G prototype in FLAC, best compression, in 16 and 24 bit. As an mp3 @ 320 kBps, this file is 73 megabytes. As a 16 bit FLAC, it's 298 megabytes. As a 24 bit FLAC, it's 600 megabytes. The difference in audio quality between the 16 and 24 bit? None. They are indistinguishable.

So... cost outweighs benefit for anything above 16 bit FLAC. I'm not even entirely sure that having a 16 bit FLAC option is even reasonable from a cost to benefit perspective, but I'm certainly willing to consider it.

Trust me, what I am working in now is plenty good enough even for 6G, as even today's experiment evidenced.

You need to start having some smart kids that will continue your legacy Shannon.

That is in the works, but I have one more thing left to accomplish before I allow myself to intentionally reproduce. That one thing should be accomplished within the next 1-2 years. At that point, release the hounds! But until then, the only way I'm going to have kids is if some force greater than myself decides it is so. I believe that parenting is a responsibility of such magnitude that it begins before becoming a parent. In 1-2 years, I will have accomplished everything I have been working to accomplish before becoming a parent.

Once I do have kidlings, though, I can only teach one of them my craft if there are any who are willing and interested, and prove themselves to me to be sufficiently competent. We shall see.