Subject: Re: mp3 and the perceptual coding From: Massimo Grassi <massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:42:25 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>> You haven't mentioned the background of the students yet, tough - is > there any information theory in their curriculum? The benefits of > perceptual coding are hard to explain without pointing the difference > between lossy and lossless coding (and why the former is so much more > efficient). they are psychology students. in fact, the problem is that, so far, I found things written mostly by engineers (I guess). in the mean time, thanks for all the replies, m