Posted on 04/03/2008 8:10:49 PM PDT by martin_fierro
By Katherine Hannaford
Tech Digest
Thursday, April 3 03:30 pm
How many clowns can you fit in a car? I'm still not sure, but supposedly we'll soon all be able to compress the sh*t out of our MP3s and get 20 million onto an iPod. Good luck finding 20 million songs you actually like...
If the evil anti-audiophilic professors at the University of Rochester manage to release their new compression technology without Arcam and Denon product managers hacking into their PCs and deleting the relevant witchcraft files.
They're working on technology which will shrink MP3 file size down to a 1,000th of its size, so an 80GB iPod could hold 20 million tracks instead of the advertised 20,000. I suggest we all brandish our IXOS cables and go beat up those Rochester professors. This Friday good for all?
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Life’s too short.
With ubiquitous low-power wide-area networking shaping up the way it is, you are going to be able to compress any length of audiophile-quality music into 64-bits per song.
That’s like billions and billions of high-quality songs on your keychain. No big deal; nothing to get one’s panties in a wad about.
Not if you compress it right.
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Sounds like you could store several full-length movies on your iPod along with your music.
Screw music compression....I want to know about just regular data compression...
Witch Craft!!! Stop this Now!(Sorry, Hillary)
Music, video, and image compression will always allow greater compression ratios than regular data, because music, video, and images can tolerate "LOSSY" compression.
In almost all cases, you don't want your digital data files (programs, word documents, etc.) to lose even one bit, because they won't work right.
OTOH, as long as you're willing to tolerate crappy sound and visuals, you can compress the sh*t out of media files.
So my FRiend, you are stuck with "LOSSLESS" compression: LZW and similar, a-la ZIP, tgz, rar, etc.
Good luck syncing your iPod the first time. That would take years.
Not if you compress decompress it right.
There. Fixed it.
And as a result, the music will sound like mud.
Well this explains why last week suddenly all the mp3 newsgroups on my Usenet server disappeared.
I really enjoy listening to music that sounds like it was recorded inside a 55 gal. drum. Digital artifacts are the newest art form, from what I’ve been told.
That says it all.
Yeah, it's not the compression I care so much about, it's the quality. Do I really want my best Tony Orlando and Dawn CD compressed to sound like I'm listening to Thomas Edison's phonograph?
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