Posted on 07/29/2022 11:03:20 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Holy big pics batman.
flac and vinyl rule
Yeah—sorry. The part that contains the img link was embedded so far into a textwall that I really didn’t want to wade through it to find it and edit it.
Enjoyable post. I record mostly in MIDI (Logic Pro X) except for vocals and never knew this helpful info.
Passing on to a few musician friends
Thx
Not mentioned ...
Just like FM broadcasts, stereo audio is converted to Left+Right and Left-Right signals.
An MP3 process stores the L+R signal with more data and saves on the data for the L-R, difference channel.
DIGITAL SUCKS!
And for the psychoacoustic trick that blows everyone's mind, a louder tone can mask a quiet tone that's near its frequency, even if the quiet tone started before the loud tone. That confused me entirely when I wrote a paper on it in my college class "ripping CDs for a grade".
“DIGITAL SUCKS!”
DIGITAL RULES!
“Just like FM broadcasts, stereo audio is converted to Left+Right and Left-Right signals.”
The L+R becomes the mono carrier for backwards compatibility and the L-R is used to derive the L and R channels from the L+R signal.
PCM is not purely a digital format because the pulse width varies continuously (non-discretely, or non-digitally) between its limits.
“An MP3 process stores the L+R signal with more data and saves on the data for the L-R, difference channel.”
Because most of the data is centered left and right are similar so L-R is very small.
“PCM is not purely a digital format because the pulse width varies continuously (non-discretely, or non-digitally) between its limits.”.
PCM is pulse-code modulation, not pulse-width modulation.
I record live symphonic music on a Sony PCM D100 to a .wav file. The device also allows me to simultaneously record the same music to an MP3 file. While there is a huge difference in file size, a 32 G card will hold a season’s music in both formats anyway. Without question, and even to my age-degraded hearing, the .wav recordings are superior to the MP3 files. They are brighter, with a somehow deeper, sharper, and quicker rendering of the same music.
I The walkman they have pictured at the top of the article is what I use primarily for music when mobile. Like it a lot. Sadly, I still rip most of my stuff as MP3s, though I use a stupid bitrate, mostly because any device on the planet can play them. I also have programs that let me edit the tags easily, including adding artwork
While I like many aspects of the wide world of Apple, I am not enamored with iTunes and do not use the Apple Music streaming.
I have been trying to add some music to my iPhone and iTunes simply will not move it to the phone.
I have purchased LPs, cassettes and CDs of my favorite artists, have saved the files to my system and now want my music on my phone.
Can’t move it over. Just can’t. Just upgraded to IOS 15.6 on an iPhone 12.
Is the likely culprit that I am not using AAC format, or could there still be some DRM issues lurking under the covers?
Or should I dump Apples music system and look at an independent player?
I have another long drive coming up and would like to intersperse some Rich Mullins amongst all the podcasts that I will be listening to.
Opinions welcome.
I have an Android with a microSD card that I save all my music to. Just copy it from my computer, and slip the SD into the phone, and I have all my music.
DIGITAL SUCKS!
The MoFi scandal says otherwise. They’ve been cutting vinyl from digital files and charging 130 bucks a record and the vinyl snob purists couldn’t even tell the difference. I’m lovin it. DSD rocks. Vinyl sucks.
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