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Test data for audio codecs:-

• Boston: More Than A Feeling - Tom Scholz invented a sound engineering technique where vocals, lead guitar and base guitar are each recorded as four separate sessions. Two recordings are played hard left and two recordings are played hard right. This creates a phased sound which "pops" in a stiking enough manner to form a band and tour.
• Alice Cooper: Poison - Noise and high dynamic range.
• Foo Fighters: This Is A Call - Track 1 of the first album has some of Dave Grohl's expert drumming. Cooler than the Phil Collins drumming used as test data for MLP.
• Trailer for Step Up 4 - Urban in a very Disneyfied manner. However, has a tortuous mix of voice, music, sirens and rumble in one track. May be available with stereoscopic video.

Test data for video codecs:-

• Torus Animation - Motion delta test aligned on 64×64 pixel boundaries.
• Mandelbrot Fractal Animation - Gradual color changes and detailed regions of texture with diagonal boundaries.
• Iron Man 2: Monaco Fight Scene - Large regions of moving texture, particle effects and composited sparks. Available as 3840×2160p.
• Trailer for Elysium - Mix of spaceships, grinding poverty, talking heads and explosions. Available as 3840×2160p.