Kyle X-bone with another banger

Was obsessed with the original version of this song especially because they managed to cram it into a Super Famicom cart. But I prefer this version on PS1. Goosebumps the first time I heard it...and perhaps every time

I value this data. Thanks for sharing.

FLAC and ALAC behaving similarlity looks about right for me. Though on the fade out section at the end they kinda differ on how low and how quickly they drop off with the bitrate. (Kinda forgot Apple open sourced ALAC with the Apache license) Vorbis is quite agressive with maintaining the average bitrate and not dropping much on quiter parts and the fade out at the end much like Opus does. (Not sure which is more agressive between the two without a comparison with the same song) Never used Wavpack before but the "variable" aspect of doesn"t seem to be as flexible and smooth in transitioning bitrate. It kinda just looks to be approximating to the nearest possible bitrate preset resulting in hard less precise shifts in bitrate. (Felt like the jittery PSX geometry that resulted from not using Floating Point and sticking to Integer maths) That produced a bit of a mixed behavior of being slower to react while also being close but not quite compared to FLAC & ALAC's bitrate changes. 1:31 and 2:14 shows Wavpack being not as smooth in bitrate transition and doing bigger jumps as the audio got louder then dropped off quickly. Not dissing on Wavpack honestly since its amazing how much loseless comparession they got for a codec from the late 90s. Though from what I've read its more CPU demanding than FLAC or ALAC so it kinda depends on how powerful the playback/decoding device is and what preset the audio was encoded in on whatever codec chosen.

This is kind of fascinating, and you know what? It makes me wonder something. There are those sprite comparisons that show old sprites reproduced perfectly on modern hardware, versus how they would have appeared on a CRT. They show off how a lot of the time the graphic designers were taking hardware limitations into account it get results the way they wanted them. Which makes me wonder how often the composers for games were doing the same thing. When they wrote the music for their games, at least some of them had to be thinking about how the sound chip would affect the sound and mixing, right? There were some pretty smart cookies like that.

Makes me wonder if variable codec could work, what would be the overall saving if the lowest data at any given moment was used?

The main reason I subscribed to to Apple Music if you think that I want to enjoy this just because they offer a lossless at every tier with ALAC and it sounds pretty good. And it's fascinating to see how the levels compare.

I think that it would have been cool to see uncompressed data, so that we see how much compression there is for lossless. If it's a lot or hardly any.

Just to preshoot the question: Yukari Yoshida - Yume wa Owaranai ～Kobore Ochiru Toki no Shizuku～ Nice song, and no thanks to OP for reminding me its existence, because I'm compelled to acquiring the CD :3c

With how much difference the volume makes I'm assuming one of the big compression tricks is the encoder saying "We're only going up to [1/4] the available range so these words are the [14] least significant bits out of the available [16] and the rest are zeroes."

So if I interpret this this with a very biased eye FLAC beat ALAC in term of bandwidth needed except when the audio is silent where ALAC is better ? Neat

well... I see why Vorbis is so often used. But yea, it's cause of the royalty free license. But it still fascinates me how far a royalty free one is going over those first party non free ones...

Vorbis really manages to keep all that detail of the silence.

Really cool to see how they differ on a graph like this. I only started using FLAC once I didn't have to worry about space. I was always the outcast when choosing an audio format, which was always WMA.

0:30 my favorite part

Would be interesting to see waveform views for each type as it plays, but only showing the difference/xor between the original and encoded views to highlight the difference in audio reproduction.

Tanks you for me discovered a new song !

This is so cool!

Pls triangle only version!!!!!!!!!!

do you have the green and red colors backwards?

Could you show how Punch Out!! Training theme would sound in the enhanced NES Chip? I know it was a lot of years ago, but I would love to hear it. Great job!

Its interesting that much FLAC scales its bitrate with the volume of the audio in a VU meter way that shows dynamics of the audio which AAC LC also does to a much lesser extent. Though Opus by comparison doesn't drop the bitrate much on lower volume sections like at the very beginning and end of the song. They all got peaky with the bitrates with the higher frequency sounds like drum hi-hats and some piano parts, but not as much with the brass like instruments (not sure if its trumpets) like at 0:28. Opus spiking more with the drums (like another commenter mentioned) is interesting though, but does kinda make sense since Opus is a codec built for encoding speech and not so much for music unlike FLAC. The framerate of the bars initially bothered me until I remembered how much of a pain it was to smoothen visualizers of audio levels when I was playing with Rainmeter years ago. Considering there's 4 stream of audio whose variable bitrate is being monitored and represented as bars in real time I would assume this was quite CPU intensive to do.

interesting how opus seems to really dislike drums (super cool vid btw ! i always wanted to see such a comparison)

And size of file comparison is... where? Is there anyway to compare outputs to original and see which codec is less "noisy"?

Tales of Phantasia ❤

very excellent video!

Hm-m, the FLAC bar looks like a VU meter to me. Is it giving away how it works, just basically RLE for the unused bits of the dynamic range?

What's the song?

isn't the green and red inverted?

What program did you use to make this?

FLAC has a much higher base rate, so the same relative change looks much bigger. Please scale graph!

Opus is a phenomenal lossy format.

What is that game name of the song at the end is this video, please?

Nintendo soundtracks were the best

"vrc7 vs yamaha chip" 5:45

The coffee zone with the improved soundchip sounds smooth and beautiful! Must play this on a high end subwoofer, i love that the triangle isn't screaming and the bass of the triangle is smoother, but the stairstep awesomeness is removed, i feel like the coffee zone is supposed to sound like this, it doesn't sound 8 bit with the vrc7 :3

I'd be nice if you could share the XM file.

At first I thought "surely there won't even be any changes, what nonsense" but now that I've finished looking at it, the difference is quite noticeable, thanks for letting us hear perfection in the NES

The fact that when this video was released OP only had 255 subscribers is STUNNING😮😮😮. This video is a small masterpiece! It's beautiful, and well done!

ooohhhhhhhh.... I always noticed that high pitched whine in NES bass but never saw it visualized.

The DAC drums are going crazy! 🤪 🔥🥁

i've had enough [un-chips your tune]

That Castelvania III theme grooves

I want to play all my old classics on this mod

the castlevania sawtooth hurt my ears dawg

I NEED "AT DOOMS GATE" ON THE COMBINED MODEL USED AT THE END!

I had to rewatch to read the stuff because watching the sound wave patterns with that neat little tune was pretty satisfying to watch

The C=64's SID really was astonishing for its time and price point.

I'm fairly sure this is Section **2**. Not Section 1.

Absolutely a masterpiece.