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| From | Donmand@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Morality and MP3s |
| Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:22:18 EST |
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I don't understand the whole MP3 craze, really? You just mentioned the
compression makes the music file much less than CD quality. Unfortunately the
average music buff likes MP3 sound quality. A friend at work boast how he can
store over 150 songs on 1 CD. When I complained about the poor sound quality?
He remarked "The sound quality is FINE for me". These are the same comsumers
how thought VHS video was equal to Beta in quality. At least DVD is doing a
good job of "killing off" VHS for good. The hardware manufacturers and
retailers have done a splendid job of hyping MP3 also. From MP3 recorders to
CD (mp3 compatible) players. And Joe Average with his 48X CDR computer burner
"eats it up as well".
Serious Live tapers deplore MP3 sourced Live Concerts CD's because of their
poor sound quality. But that doesn't stop music buffs from ripping and
burning the damn CD's.
Don
In a message dated 2/20/03 4:01:09 PM Central Standard Time,
audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> Now a common argument that might arise here is that in the digital age, one
> can make a "perfect" copy, whereas in an anolog world, tapes of tapes of
> tapes degrade. To which I reply, yes, you can. But an mp3 aint it. An
> mp3
> at 128 kbs is roughly a tenth the size of the original wav file or CD
> track;
> there is enough quality loss that amongst the avid live show traders I deal
> with in my other life as hepcat jam band scenester, no one will touch mp3.
> The compression file format of choice is shorten, or ".shn", which is much
> bigger than mp3 but lossless; a de-compressed shorten file is identical to
> the original wav file. (see www.etree.org or visit your local public
> library
> for more info.) Try ripping a song to mp3, then converting the mp3 to mp3
> to mp3, and compare the end result to the original CD track. The
> degradation in sound quallity will be distinctly noticable (if not to you,
> most certainly to your dog.)
>
>
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