dither

Since most people dither, "fail fast" serves as good, rough advice.

So I converted a few tracks to 8-bit with noise shaped dither.

It's probably worth pointing out that what you can hear there is dither noise.

When you make the same adjustments on your PC, the GPU has to dither the result back to 8-bit for transmission.

The test is most likely invalid - unless told otherwise SoX adds dither.

Without it, people dither and take longer to cross a clear space - paradoxical, but that's science for you.

You could support the argument for dithering by showing a side by side comparison, at least.

It was in that context that I was shown the example - I was wondering why anyone would feel the need to dither down to 24 bits.

The two weeks when my company decided to dither on whether they wanted to layoff people or not was stressful for all.

If you're building a Macintosh System 6 or 7 style page, use this site[1] to create 1-bit Atkinson[2] dithered images which will fit perfectly.

I bought a ticket a few minutes after I got the email to ensure I wouldn't dither for a day and not be able to get them.

This is actually exactly what dithering [1] is in signal processing.

There are three separate things going on here: The standard "6 dB per bit" is the approximate signal-to-noise ratio with a flat dither.

[1] : convert -fill none -draw "matte 0,0 floodfill" -type optimize -colors 64 +dither -trim -fuzz 3% +repage -strip $1 $2Nevertheless, it's a great technique which i've just saved for such specific cases.

Even if you spend the cycles and the power to dither, you're basically approximating something like another bit of precision.

One thing that is alluded to but perhaps not explored fully is the use of noise-shaping dither techniques which rely on pushing the noise out into the ultrasonic region.