Subjective Evaluation of MP3 Compression for Different Musical Genres

Pras A, Zimmerman R, Levitin D, Guastavino C. Subjective Evaluation of MP3 Compression for Different Musical Genres. In: AES Convention 127. Audio Engineering Society; 2009. Paper 7879. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15074

@inproceedings{Pras2009_15074,
  author = {Pras, Amandine and Zimmerman, Rachel and Levitin, Daniel and Guastavino, Catherine},
  title = {{Subjective Evaluation of MP3 Compression for Different Musical Genres}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 127},
  note = {Paper 7879},
  year = {2009},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15074}
}

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AB  - Mp3 compression is commonly used to reduce the size of digital music files but introduces a number of potentially audible artifacts, especially at low bitrates. We investigated whether listeners prefer CD quality to mp3 files at various bitrates (96 kb/s to 320 kb/s), and whether this preference is affected by musical genre. Thirteen trained listeners completed an A/B comparison task judging CD quality and compressed files. Listeners significantly preferred CD quality to mp3 files up to 192 kb/s for all musical genres. In addition, we observed a significant effect of expertise (sound engineers vs. musicians) and musical genres (electric v.s acoustic music).
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