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Default Question about WMA with minimum acceptable bit-rate

Laurence Payne wrote:

On 9 Nov 2006 10:08:11 -0800, "Radium" wrote:


Lets say I have WMA file that is monoaural and 44.1 khz and contains a
song. What would be the minimum bit-rate neccesary in order for the
song to be recognizable to the ear of the average human who has
listened to the song before and knows the song?



This isn't really a question about bit-rate. It's about the minimum
information required to recognise a song.

Try
http://www.songtapper.com/s/tappingmain.bin?dotap=1

You might find one bit sufficient.


Interesting site. Did you know that you can tap in a song yourself and
add it to their database? Cool, huh? Sort of like Wikipedia, only for
sound.

Anyway, I tried tapping in "Happy Birthday" to see if it recognized it,
and got these results:

I Am A Transexual
Rod Conners

Happy Birthday
Unknown

I Wanna **** Aaron Carter
Lexi Henning

Aaron Slaney Is Homosexual
Chas N' Dave

Cool, huh?

//Walt

PS Did you know that the population of Elephants has increased by a
factor of three?