Hey there!
Did anyone of you see these videos he put out at the same time as his debut solo album? If so, what do you think about them?
I read this interview and I was kinda surprised. Well, I have to say that I really appreciate this man's work, but I think he exaggerates about lossy audio compression.
For instance, he said this:
after he was asked this question:
I'm sure I don't lecture you guys here, but I still feel like writing this. Mathematically, he's completely right. There is a lot of information lost, but this is not just random information, this is information that's more or less useless anyway. If encoded the right way, mp3 (and some other lossy compression standards like vorbis, aac and musepack) are quite good and not far from the original source, in my opinion. Or am I wrong? Honestly, I never listened to lossy compressed music through studio monitors or 1000+ bucks headphone equipment, but I still think it's not far from the truth that lossy compression isn't SO bad today. Sure, I still prefer physical discs and lossless sources, just for the psychological aspect. It feels like listening to the "real thing", not just an interpretation a piece of software made. However, when I did some ABX tests for the first time, I was quite disappointed when I realized that I couldn't tell that much of a difference at first ... Took quite some time until I knew what to listen for to distinguish between lossless and lossy, and sometimes I still have no clue what is what.
So what do you think about his videos and statements? More a gag, or is he right about this? Are most people really listening to **** these days?
Did anyone of you see these videos he put out at the same time as his debut solo album? If so, what do you think about them?
I read this interview and I was kinda surprised. Well, I have to say that I really appreciate this man's work, but I think he exaggerates about lossy audio compression.
For instance, he said this:
Quote:
| I’m not trying to say that the iPod is inherently bad. There are some great things about iPods and download culture. The fact that people are arguably listening to more music than ever now, and probably more wide ranging in terms of what they’re listening to than before. And the convenience aspect is wonderful. But what concerned me is that no one was really raising the problems of iPods. There are some really serious issues for me. I can break it down into three basic categories. Number one, the quality issue. I really wonder if people realize what **** they are listening to when they listen to an MP3. The best analogy I can come up with is the idea that, if you took someone to see a beautiful painting in an Art Gallery, and you stood them in front of the painting so they could see the texture of the paint, the colors coming off the canvas, the power and the depth, of that masterpiece, and then you took them out of the Art Gallery and you showed them a photocopy of the same painting. Now, the thing is, you can still appreciate, even from the photocopy, that it’s a masterpiece. It’s the same with an MP3, you can still appreciate it’s a great piece of music and you can still enjoy it, but the quality of experience is so much lower. So much lower. |
Quote:
| Can you encapsulate the statement you’re making against “download culture”, of which the iPod is the ultimate symbol? |
So what do you think about his videos and statements? More a gag, or is he right about this? Are most people really listening to **** these days?
