Evil professors claim they can compress MP3s so much, you'll fit 20 million onto your iPod

Yahoo Tech Digest ^ | Thursday, April 3 03:30 pm | Katherine Hannaford

[martin_fierro]

16 GB USB thumb drive, $60

[martin_fierro]

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[battlegearboat]

Life’s too short.

[Jeff Chandler]

Compression

[krb]

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.

[martin_fierro]

Life’s too short.

Not if you compress it right.

[VOA]

bump

[Grizzled Bear]

Sounds like you could store several full-length movies on your iPod along with your music.

[ShadowAce]

[rottndog]

Screw music compression....I want to know about just regular data compression...

[Mark]

Witch Craft!!! Stop this Now!(Sorry, Hillary)

[dayglored]

> Screw music compression....I want to know about just regular data compression...

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.

[Mr. Blonde]

Good luck syncing your iPod the first time. That would take years.

[cowboyway]

Not if you compress it right.

Not if you compress decompress it right.

There. Fixed it.

[wastedyears]

And as a result, the music will sound like mud.

[Thrownatbirth]

Good luck finding 20 million songs you actually like...

A Phil Collins fan could probably do that.

[tlb]

Well this explains why last week suddenly all the mp3 newsgroups on my Usenet server disappeared.

[Fresh Wind]

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.

[bmwcyle]

That says it all.

[Obadiah]

OTOH, as long as you're willing to tolerate crappy sound and visuals, you can compress the sh*t out of media files.

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?