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| 1 | 1. Why are you interested in becoming a What member? | |
| 2 | 2. How often do you plan on using the site? | |
| 3 | 3. What kind of internet connection do you have? D | |
| 4 | 4. Are you a member of any other private trackers? | |
| 5 | 5. How much experience do you have creating & uploading torrents? Which BT client do you use? | |
| 6 | 7. How big is your music/cd collection? What bitrates/formats? | |
| 7 | 8. What application do you usually use to rip CDs & how many you have (estimate)? | |
| 8 | 9. What is the difference between a lossy & a lossless audio codec? | |
| 9 | 10. What are VBR & CBR? Out of following pick the highest standard LAME mp3 bitrate: 192, V0, V2, 320, V4, 512? | |
| 10 | 11. What is transcoding, in terms of audio? | |
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| 13 | 12. Will these transcodes give the same result as if they were done straight from an original cd? "YES" or "NO" for each one please. | |
| 14 | a. 320 -> 192 | |
| 15 | b. V2 -> 192 | |
| 16 | c. 256 -> 256 | |
| 17 | d. 256 -> 320 | |
| 18 | e. wma -> mp3 | |
| 19 | f. FLAC -> mp3 | |
| 20 | g. mp3 -> Audio CD -> mp3 | |
| 21 | h. mp3 -> Audio CD -> FLAC | |
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| 24 | If no more than one lossless to lossy encoding is permitted which of these transcodes are/is generally acceptable? Give only a YES or NO for each specified example. | |
| 25 | a. CDDA->WAV->CBR | |
| 26 | b. 320->WAV(PCM)->FLAC | |
| 27 | c. MP3->WMA->AAC | |
| 28 | d. AAC->MP3->ALAC | |
| 29 | e. FLAC->APE->WAV(PCM) | |
| 30 | f. APE->FLAC->APE | |
| 31 | g. FLAC->WAV(PCM)->CDDA | |
| 32 | h. WAV(PCM)->ALAC->AAC | |
| 33 | i. MP3->APE->FLAC | |
| 34 | j. V0->CBR->WAV(PCM) | |
| 35 | k. CDDA->WAV(PCM)->MP3 | |
| 36 | l. V2->V1->V3 | |
| 37 | m. V0->WAV(PCM)->CDDA | |
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| 40 | Which conversions are acceptable without having *obvious* quality loss? No more than one (1) lossless to lossy transcode is allowed to take place. Answer Y (YES) or N (NO) to the following: | |
| 41 | a. 192 MP3 -> 320 MP3 | |
| 42 | b. CDDA (CD) -> FLAC | |
| 43 | c. 320 MP3 -> 192 MP3 -> q6 Vorbis (Ogg) | |
| 44 | d. FLAC -> CDDA (CD) -> 320 MP3 | |
| 45 | e. APE -> FLAC -> q7 Vorbis (Ogg) | |
| 46 | f. WAV (PCM) -> 256 MP3 -> APE -> FLAC | |
| 47 | g. V0 MP3 -> CDDA (CD) -> 320 AAC (MPA/MP4) -> WAV | |
| 48 | h. ALAC (MPA/MP4) -> CDDA (CD) -> APE -> V2 MP3 -> FLAC | |
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| 50 | After that : | |
| 51 | 1. How often will you use the site? | |
| 52 | 2. How long will you seed for daily, and how long in total? | |
| 53 | 3. What is the concept of maintaing a ratio? | |
| 54 | 4. Will you be able to maintain an acceptable ratio on What.cd? Can you prove to me that you have been able to do this on other private bittorrent sites? | |
| 55 | 1. Explain how lossy and lossless audio codecs are different Give three examples of each. | |
| 56 | 2. What is CBR & VBR? How are they different? Explain. | |
| 57 | 3. What is v0? | |
| 58 | 4. What is the highest possible mp3 bitrate? | |
| 59 | 5. Give examples of methods that could be used to prove an audio file is actually the type of format/bitrate advertised. | |
| 60 | 6. - Define transcoding - In terms of audio. | |
| 61 | Is it good or bad and why? | |
| 62 | Are there good AND bad transcodes? Explain. |
