[Radium]

Walt wrote:
Radium wrote:

Hi:

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?

It would probably depend on the song. "Happy Birthday" performed on a
cheap keyboard with no accompanyment would be recognizable at a lower
bit rate than, say, Mahler's 8th Symphony.

Why do you want to do this anyway? It becomes unlistenable long before
it becomes unrecognizable.

//Walt

Would the songs be recognizable at 1kbps? How about 500 bps? Whats the
lowest you could go with the song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by
Green-Day?