Holy big pics batman.
flac and vinyl rule
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
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".
PCM is not purely a digital format because the pulse width varies continuously (non-discretely, or non-digitally) between its limits.
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 work for a radio company and see the challenges involved in getting the best audio possible. Rarely do new releases come from CD. Most are d/l links from the labels or services like Play MPE or Promo Only. Legally we cannot use consumer download sites as those have personal use license vs a broadcast performance one.
The waveforms on nearly all files serviced have no dynamic range. The wav displays resemble two bricks. We generally drop these over 10db to get to -18/0 on a Dorrough meter. We always check the files in a spectrum analyzer and find many so called wav files are up converted from a lesser source.
It’s not the labels, but the producers and even artists. One major British act sent their label the wavs for a premiere, all rolled off in the same frequecy range as an Mp3. Throw in the digital codecs used stl to transmitter sites along with streaming codecs and you get can tell an mp3 source versus a true linear.
For older music we use cd but many time defaulted to the original releases due to the over processing of the remastered. It was more fun getting vinyl in the 70s at the stations.