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[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ The Recording Website Message Board ] [ FAQ ] Posted by JC on June 07, 2000 at 07:32:24:
In Reply to: mp3's ...lighten up posted by jjrockjaw on June 06, 2000 at 23:57:24:
I forgot to mention!
you hear all the MP3 fans screaming "well, you can't hear MP3 artifact at 256..." etc.. but you all know full well as long as most users are on dialup connections they will be downloading 128's which are sometimes pretty bad. Of course the argument to this has been "well, more and more people are leaving dialup for cable and DSL connections, so why not encode at 256.." and i'd agree with that statement.
But what you really ought to be asking is "if we're all on cable modems or DSl modems then what's stopping us from swapping full-fidelity .wav's?"
THAT my friends is the way of the future!
Don't forget: MP3 was developed only to make file sizes more managable. If you think about it, with the speed that technology evolves, the large size of a 16-bit stereo .wav will become more and more managable by both the internet and portable players as time goes on. IMHO MP3 in this respect is sort of a "bandaid" solution to a technical problem. Anybody remember the beginnings of Internet audio? You were just happy that the sound would come out of the speakers, right? Now I know, I shouldn't hold my breath! But I am old enough to remember when noone had an internet connection- or a PC for that matter! And it wasn't all that many years ago. I keep reminding myself that my first computer was a TRS80 with 48k- NOT 48meg- RAM. A $10 PIM from Walmart has more computing power than that thing! And that was only 1980- 20 years ago. It's not unthinkable that in another 20 years we'll be passing music around- in DSD format, not PCM- via cellphones and tiny audio players that would store hundreds of songs.
That is, if people are still making music!!
Have a great day!