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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, July 29, 2004Kick the compression habitMSNBC: "Digital music doesn't have to mean inferior sound quality ... battery problems aside, the iPod is a magnificent device which has the capability of providing true hi-fi audio. Unfortunately, that’s not the way it and all the wannabe clones are being marketed. Instead of telling you how great your music can sound, Apple and other MP3 mass-storage device manufacturers boast how many compressed music files you can fit on their devices ... If you want to actually preserve your music, you can do a lot better. Ideally, what you should be doing is listening to songs encoded in Apple’s AIFF format. AIFF files and the similar WAV files in the Windows realm are not compressed at all. Each file is approximately 30 to 40 MB each, or about 10 times the size of files compressed into the AAC, MP3, RA or WMA formats. To my ears, compressed music files are the equivalent of junk food to the music industry. The difference is like comparing a slice of the best bakery-made chocolate cake you’ve ever eaten to a Devil Dog or a Ring Ding. Fulfilling richness vs. empty calories. Both are satisfying chocolate desserts but which one will you remember as being something special?"Around these parts, we refer to Gary Krakow as "Crazy Guy" (look at the picture, he's even more nuts in person) and this article highlights the method behind the madness. Yeah, uncompressed music is nice, but it's prohibitively large as well. I can't wait until this guy settles on uncompressed video as his next jihad. Does anyone really fret over the quality of today's highly-compressed DVDs? When does "Good Enough" stop being good enough? [ Posted at 11:53 AM | Permalink ]
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