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I think the audio quality gives this recording character. What could be more cyberpunk than hearing the quirky artifacts resulting from ripping an obsolete reco
by muricula 1y ago
I think the audio quality gives this recording character. What could be more cyberpunk than hearing the quirky artifacts resulting from ripping an obsolete recording medium?
- jszymborski 1y agoI was about to say, feels more of its time...
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoA little embarrassing when the 1970s technology is better than the 1990s.
- robotresearcher 1y ago‘Worse is better’ in effect. MP3 trades quality for convenience. Edit: I read above that these particular MP3s are corrupted, so they have a serious enjoyability issue.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThat's the point. CDs have error correction to handle corruption. MP3 has nothing. A complete downgrade in robustness.
- robotresearcher 1y agoWith an advantage in compactness that makes them easier to distribute. That trade off is their point.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThat wasn't the MPEG design goal. It was to stream video through a distribution network where dropouts would be tolerated as part of doing business. People were accustomed to snowy analog broadcast video. That is more disruptive when listening to purely audio. This is incidentally why CDs had their error handling significantly improved over Phillips' original prototype which would have been much more susceptible to scratches if commercialized.
- amatecha 1y agoNo I know but I mean it has actual mp3 encoding errors because the files are getting corrupted over time lol, like it's an issue in the storage medium not the original analog-to-digital conversion :( Examples in the following file http://bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/Tape1a.mp3 http://bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/Tape1a.mp3 : 0:40, 1:04, 1:13, 1:21, 2:18 ... I mean.. the files are basically ruined :\