Concluding the Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment  And now for the
dramatic conclusion to The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment you've
all been waiting for! The actual bitrates of each audio sample
are revealed below, along with how many times each was clicked
per the URL shortener stats between Thursday, June 21st and
Tuesday, June 26th.  Limburger / ~160kbps VBR / 10,265 Cheddar /
320kbps CBR / 7,183 Gouda / raw CD / 6,159 Brie / ~192kbps VBR /
5,508 Feta / 128kbps CBR / 5,567  During that six day period, my
overall Amazon CloudFront and S3 bill for these downloaded audio
samples was $103.72 for 800 GB of data, across 200k requests.
Based on the raw click stats, it looks like a bunch of folks
clicked on the first and second files, then lost interest.
Probably because of, y'know, Starship. Still, it's encouraging
to note that the last two files were both clicked about 5.5k
times for those that toughed their way out to the very end. Of
those listeners, 3,512 went on to contribute results. Not bad at
all! I mean, consid