Public AAC Listening Test @ 96 kbps ------------------------------------------- Welcome and thank you very much for taking part in this listening test. Your results will be very valuable. Here are the instructions: 1. Decompress the "ABC-HR_bin.zip" package to its own folder. 2. Download one or more sample packages (location of the packages is below). 3. Place the sample package ("SampleXX.zip") in the same folder as ABC/HR and uncompress it (Extract here ...). Make sure you keep the directory structure intact or the configuration files will not work. For an idea how the folders should look like (in case you downloaded all sample packages), check "folder-setup.png". 4. -------------------WINDOWS USERS:-------------------------- Navigate to the "bin" directory and run "DecodeXX.bat" ("XX" being the number of the sample you want to prepare for testing). If you would like to prepare all samples, run "DecodeAll.bat". Wait until the command prompt screen disappears. --------*NIX (Linux, OS X, BSD, Solaris, etc.) USERS-------- Linux users are asked to use Wine with "wine wcmd /c DecodeXX.bat" from the "bin" directory. OS X users are asked to handle decoding of samples themselves (sorry). 5. You may need the Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.5 or newer to run ABC/HR in case it is not already installed. If you don't have Java, download it from here: http://www.java.com. WINDOWS USERS: Double-click "abchr.jar". *NIX USERS: Run "java -jar abchr.jar" from the shell. Once ABC/HR is open, click "Open ABC/HR Config..." and load the file "SampleXX.ecf" (again, "XX" being the number of the test you want to take - make sure you ran the batch file respective to that package before). 6. Take the test. If you need information on how to properly do that, check ff123's page: http://ff123.net/64test/practice.html. 7. After you finish the test, save the results, (7-)ZIP, RAR or ACE them together and mail the file to listening.tests.ha@gmail.com The test is scheduled to end on 27th of July, 2011. No results will be accepted after that date, unless the test is extended. Possible extensions will be announced at the test page (http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/). You don't need to test all samples to participate. Even one single result is already very helpful. Of course, the more you test, the better for the final results' significance. All results and comments I receive will be published. If you want to be associated with your results, please enter your (nick)name in the "Show name in results file" field in ABC/HR (check the checkbox next to it to enable the field). Otherwise, your results will be anonymous. Thank you very much! --------------------------------------------- These are the sample packages: http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/Sample01.zip http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/Sample02.zip http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/Sample03.zip http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/Sample04.zip http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/Sample05.zip ... http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/Sample20.zip Single ZIP with all samples: http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/all_samples.zip Best regards, Igor