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What.CD Invite Interview Room #5 || Questions must be answered quickly || Those getting interviewed please /part from the channel after the interview is finished.
Topic set by Gautam on Wed Oct 23 2013 09:43:04 GMT-0500 (CDT)
17:52	AnAngryGoose	NO. WAY.
17:52	NeuroWinter	YES WAY!
17:52	AnAngryGoose	HOLY SHIT
17:52	NeuroWinter	===================
17:52	NeuroWinter	Intro
17:52	NeuroWinter	===================
17:52	NeuroWinter
17:52	NeuroWinter	Hello and welcome to the What.CD interview process. My name is NeuroWinter and I will be conducting your interview today.
17:52	NeuroWinter
17:52	NeuroWinter	Remember that the interview can take up to 2 hours, so if you don't have time right now, please let me know and this won't be
17:52	NeuroWinter	counted as a fail. If you leave during the interview, for any reason, you will fail. The penalty for failure is a 48 hour
17:52	NeuroWinter	waiting period before you are able to sit the test again. You have 3 attempts to pass the interview, but after 3 failures
17:52	NeuroWinter	you will not be admitted to What.CD via the interview process, but you can still be invited by a friend. I strongly suggest that
17:52	NeuroWinter	you study before this test. If you haven't yet, please leave and study here: http://www.whatinterviewprep.com/. If you have any
17:52	NeuroWinter	questions about the interview, now is the best time to ask, and if you want to leave, please let me know.
17:52	NeuroWinter	Otherwise please type my name "NeuroWinter".
17:53	AnAngryGoose	NeuroWinter
17:53	NeuroWinter	=====================
17:53	NeuroWinter	Rules
17:53	NeuroWinter	=====================
17:53	NeuroWinter
17:53	NeuroWinter	01. Use your own words to answer questions in a reasonable amount of time. You don't need to sound like you swallowed an encyclopedia!
17:53	NeuroWinter	02. DO NOT search for answers in your notes or on Google, Wikipedia, hydrogenaudio, the What.CD Interview Preparation site, or any other site. Please close all of your internet browsers now.
17:53	NeuroWinter	03. If you do not know the answer to a question, be honest and say so.
17:53	NeuroWinter	04. *POSTING THE CONTENTS OF THIS INTERVIEW ANYWHERE OR SHOWING IT TO ANYONE WILL COST YOU YOUR ACCOUNT OR YOUR CHANCES AT INTERVIEWING AGAIN!*
17:53	NeuroWinter
17:53	NeuroWinter	If you understand these rules and wish to continue, please type my name "NeuroWinter".
17:53	AnAngryGoose	NeuroWinter
17:54	NeuroWinter	==================================
17:54	NeuroWinter	Section One: Background infomation
17:54	NeuroWinter	==================================
17:54	NeuroWinter
17:54	NeuroWinter	Please remember to number your anwers and enter each answer on a different line.
17:54	NeuroWinter
17:54	NeuroWinter	01. Have you ever had an account on What.CD before?
17:54	NeuroWinter	02. Have you interviewed here before? If so, by whom and when?
17:54	NeuroWinter	03. Where do you live? Are you currently using your home connection?
17:54	NeuroWinter	04. Are you fluent in English? If not, what's your primary language?
17:54	NeuroWinter	05. What is your e-mail address?
17:54	NeuroWinter	06. Where did you find out about the interview process?
17:54	NeuroWinter	07. Have you ever participated in invite trading, buying, or selling? Admit to it now and your actions will be excused. Deny it and get found later and you will be permanently banned.
17:54	NeuroWinter	08. Are you a member of other private trackers? List all of them.
17:54	NeuroWinter
17:54	NeuroWinter	Please say my name "NeuroWinter" once you have finished these questions.
17:55	AnAngryGoose	1) Nope
17:55	AnAngryGoose	2)Nope
17:55	AnAngryGoose	3)Lower Alabama, USA. Yes, this is my home conn.
17:55	AnAngryGoose	4) yep. only language
17:56	AnAngryGoose	5)anangrygoose1@gmail.com
17:56	AnAngryGoose	6)/r/trackers on reddit maybe? I heard about what.cd online somewhere and then just dug around
17:56	AnAngryGoose	7)nope
17:57	AnAngryGoose	8)Yes, bB (BaconBits) and IPT(IPTorrents)
17:57	AnAngryGoose	NeuroWinter
17:57	NeuroWinter
17:57	NeuroWinter	==============================
17:57	NeuroWinter	Section Two: Screenshots
17:57	NeuroWinter	==============================
17:57	NeuroWinter
17:57	NeuroWinter	You will need to follow these instructions very carefully. If you do not, I will request you to take a new screenshot.
17:57	NeuroWinter
17:57	NeuroWinter	01. The screenshot must include your full profile page on your private tracker with username and stats visible.
17:57	NeuroWinter	02. Only include one tracker per screenshot. If you are on multiple trackers I will need a screenshot for each tracker.
17:57	NeuroWinter	03. Make sure that this chat is visible in each screenshot.
17:57	NeuroWinter	04. The screenshot must be of your entire screen, this must include the entire taskbar or your dock. It must be uncropped and unresized.
17:57	NeuroWinter	05. Blacking out passkeys and/or blacking out irc keys is the only editing allowed on the screenshot. Do crop the screenshot at all .
17:57	NeuroWinter	06. Only upload your screenshot to http://imgur.com/ or any other similar image hosting website.
17:57	NeuroWinter
17:57	NeuroWinter	If you have any questions about the rules, I am here to help you out.
17:57	NeuroWinter
17:57	NeuroWinter	If you are having trouble with how to take a screenshot please refer to this website: http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/
17:57	NeuroWinter
17:57	NeuroWinter	Once completed, please close all of your internet tabs and say my name "NeuroWinter"
18:00	AnAngryGoose	Here is Baconbits:
18:01	AnAngryGoose	And IPT:
18:01	AnAngryGoose	I haven't gotten on IPT too much since I got on bB
18:01	AnAngryGoose	NeuroWinter
18:02	NeuroWinter	AnAngryGoose can you please re read the instructions please, You need to have this chat visable in each Screenshot, and you need to close your reddit tab
18:02	NeuroWinter	please do this and upload another screenshot
18:02	AnAngryGoose	Oh I though just the tab was fine. Sorry. One sec
18:04	AnAngryGoose
18:05	AnAngryGoose
18:05	AnAngryGoose	That okay?
18:07	NeuroWinter	Thats great thank you AnAngryGoose
18:07	NeuroWinter	===========================
18:07	NeuroWinter	Section Three: Bitrates
18:07	NeuroWinter	===========================
18:07	NeuroWinter
18:07	NeuroWinter	Please remember to number your answers and enter each answer on a different line.
18:07	NeuroWinter
18:07	NeuroWinter	01. What is the target bitrate for V2?
18:07	NeuroWinter	02. Which one of the following is not allowed on What.CD?
18:07	NeuroWinter	        a. FLAC
18:07	NeuroWinter	        b. V0
18:07	NeuroWinter	        c. AIFF
18:07	NeuroWinter	        d. AAC (iTunes)
18:07	NeuroWinter	03. Please order the following from lowest target bitrate to highest target bitrate:
18:07	NeuroWinter	        a. V0
18:07	NeuroWinter	        b. MP3 320 CBR
18:07	NeuroWinter	        c. V2
18:07	NeuroWinter	        d. WAV (PCM)
18:07	NeuroWinter	        e. MP3 ~192 CBR
18:07	NeuroWinter	        f. AAC 256 CBR
18:07	NeuroWinter	04. Which of the following is a lossless codec?
18:07	NeuroWinter	        a. MP3 192
18:07	NeuroWinter	        b. MP3 V2
18:08	NeuroWinter	        c. WAV
18:08	NeuroWinter	        d. MP3 V0
18:08	NeuroWinter
18:08	NeuroWinter	Please say my name "NeuroWinter" once you have finished these questions.
18:08	AnAngryGoose	1)190kbps
18:09	AnAngryGoose	2)V0
18:10	AnAngryGoose	3)c,e,a,f,b,d
18:10	AnAngryGoose	4)c
18:10	AnAngryGoose	NeuroWinter
18:11	NeuroWinter	The correct answer to Q2 is AIFF
18:12	AnAngryGoose	oh shit. Sorry, I wasn't sure between those two. Did i fail?
18:12	NeuroWinter	Nope!
18:12	NeuroWinter	==================================
18:12	NeuroWinter	Section Four: Formats and Encoding
18:13	NeuroWinter	==================================
18:13	NeuroWinter
18:13	NeuroWinter	Please remember to number your answers and enter each answer on a different line.
18:13	NeuroWinter
18:13	NeuroWinter	01. Describe a lossy codec.
18:13	NeuroWinter	02. Give me 2 examples of a lossy codec.
18:13	NeuroWinter	03. Describe a lossless codec.
18:13	NeuroWinter	04. Give me 2 examples of a lossless codec.
18:13	NeuroWinter	05. What is LAME?
18:13	NeuroWinter	06. What is the difference between CBR and VBR?
18:13	NeuroWinter	07. What is the difference between lossless and lossy codecs?
18:13	NeuroWinter
18:13	NeuroWinter	Please say my name "NeuroWinter" once you have finished these questions.
18:13	AnAngryGoose	1) Always compressed, usually smallest file size
18:14	AnAngryGoose	1) can't be transcoded to lossless
18:14	AnAngryGoose	2) MP3, AAC
18:15	AnAngryGoose	3)it stores ALL recoreded data, doesn't remove anything like lossy does sometimes.
18:15	AnAngryGoose	3) usually 'best' sounding files
18:15	AnAngryGoose	4)WAV(uncompressed), FLAC(Compressed)
18:16	AnAngryGoose	5)LAME is an encoder that compresses any input file and converts it to mp3 format
18:17	AnAngryGoose	6)constant bit rate(CBR) means the user sets the bitrate for the LAME encode, which it tries to follow throughout. VBR(variable bit rate) means the bitrate can vary throughout but still requires the user to set it up initally
18:19	AnAngryGoose	7)Lossless records all original data, nothing is removed, better sounding, way bigger. (WAV, FLAC). Lossy is smaller because it removes some of the original data and compresses the original file down quite a bit
18:19	AnAngryGoose	NeuroWinter
18:21	NeuroWinter	Could you please give a more detailed explaination of VBR? How does the bitrate differ throughout the file? (which part would get more bits per second than average and which part would get fewer bits per second than average?).
18:23	AnAngryGoose	Silence gets much less bits allocated to it than loud or active audio
18:24	NeuroWinter	Could you also please give me a better explanation of a lossy codec?
18:24	AnAngryGoose	for VBR:The user sets a major preset, LAME tries to follow that preset, but it can vary throughout for silence and noise, loud v. soft, etc.
18:25	NeuroWinter	=============================
18:25	NeuroWinter	Section Five: Transcodes
18:25	NeuroWinter	=============================
18:25	NeuroWinter	Firstly, please descibe what is a good transcode, and how does that differ from a bad one?
18:25	NeuroWinter
18:25	NeuroWinter	For the following, please state whether or not the end result would be allowed on What.CD, and if not why.
18:25	NeuroWinter	01. CD -> MP3 V2 (VBR) -> MP3 V0 (VBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	02. CD -> FLAC -> FLAC -> FLAC
18:25	NeuroWinter	03. CD -> MP3 192 (CBR) -> FLAC
18:25	NeuroWinter	04. CD -> MP3 320 (CBR) -> MP3 192 (CBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	05. CD -> MP3 V0 (VBR) -> MP3 320 (CBR) -> MP3 V2 (VBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	06. CD -> MP3 V2 (VBR) -> FLAC
18:25	NeuroWinter	07. CD -> MP3 320 (CBR) -> MP3 V0 (VBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	08. CD -> MP3 V2 (VBR) -> MP3 320 (CBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	09. CD -> MP3 320 (CBR) -> FLAC -> MP3 V0 (VBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	10. CD -> MP3 V0 (VBR) -> FLAC
18:25	NeuroWinter	11. CD -> MP3 V2 (VBR) -> MP3 192 (CBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	12. CD -> FLAC -> FLAC -> MP3 V0 (VBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	13. CD -> FLAC -> FLAC -> MP3 V2 (VBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	14. CD -> MP3 V2 (VBR) -> FLAC -> FLAC
18:25	NeuroWinter	15. CD -> FLAC -> FLAC
18:25	NeuroWinter	16. CD -> FLAC -> MP3 V2 (VBR)
18:25	AnAngryGoose	Lossy: A lot of the data is removed, ususally higher frequencies if i remember right, but sometimes it can compromise parts of the actual audio. Most of the silence is removed to save space.
18:25	NeuroWinter	17. CD -> FLAC -> MP3 192 (CBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	18. CD -> MP3 V2 (VBR) -> FLAC -> MP3 192 (CBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	19. CD -> FLAC -> FLAC -> MP3 320 (CBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter	20. CD -> MP3 192 (CBR) -> MP3 320 (CBR)
18:25	NeuroWinter
18:25	NeuroWinter	Please say my name "NeuroWinter" when you have finished.
18:26	AnAngryGoose	1) yes
18:26	AnAngryGoose	2) yes
18:26	AnAngryGoose	3)no
18:26	AnAngryGoose	4)no
18:26	AnAngryGoose	5)no
18:26	AnAngryGoose	6)no
18:27	AnAngryGoose	7)no
18:28	AnAngryGoose	8)yes
18:28	AnAngryGoose	9)no
18:28	AnAngryGoose	10)no
18:28	AnAngryGoose	11)no
18:28	AnAngryGoose	12)no
18:29	AnAngryGoose	SHIT. 12) i mean yes
18:29	AnAngryGoose	13)yes
18:29	AnAngryGoose	14)yes
18:29	AnAngryGoose	15)yes
18:30	AnAngryGoose	16)yes
18:30	AnAngryGoose	17)yes
18:30	AnAngryGoose	18)no
18:30	AnAngryGoose	19)yes
18:31	AnAngryGoose	20)no
18:31	AnAngryGoose	NeuroWinter
18:31	AnAngryGoose	that was a lot haha
18:33	AnAngryGoose	I do know that the only things allowd here are lossless to lossless, and lossless to lossy. Never lossy to lossy
18:33	NeuroWinter	Sorry AnAngryGoose but I am going to have to fail you here, the main idea behind the transcode rule is there that there should only be one lossy step in the transcode chatin and it just be at the end
18:33	NeuroWinter	EG 1 should be no since there are 2 lossy steps
18:34	NeuroWinter	Also Q14 that should be no since there is a lossy step in it, but its not at the end
18:34	NeuroWinter	===============================================
18:34	NeuroWinter	YOU HAVE FAILED THE INTERVIEW!
18:34	NeuroWinter	===============================================
18:34	NeuroWinter
18:34	NeuroWinter	Unfortunately, you will not be receiving an invite today.
18:34	NeuroWinter
18:34	NeuroWinter	Study up at http://whatinterviewprep.com
18:34	NeuroWinter
18:34	NeuroWinter	POSTING THE CONTENTS OF THIS INTERVIEW ANYWHERE OR SHOWING IT TO ANYONE WILL
18:34	NeuroWinter	COST YOU YOUR ACCOUNT!
18:34	AnAngryGoose	Awe damn. That's why I mentioned that at the end
18:34	NeuroWinter
18:34	NeuroWinter	You may return in 48 hours to interview again, for a total of 3 interviews.
18:34	NeuroWinter
18:34	NeuroWinter	Do you have any questions?