[Loser777]

Sauce:
iPods and Young People Have Utterly Destroyed Music - Gizmodo Australia
Quote:

Each year, Stanford Professor of Music Jonathan Berger does an informal test of his students by playing a bunch of different music in a bunch of different formats. Over email, here's how he told me performs the informal study: Students were asked to judge the quality of a variety of compression methods randomly mixed with uncompressed 44.1 KHz audio. The music examples included both orchestral, jazz and rock music. When I first did this I was expecting to hear preferences for uncompressed audio and expecting to see MP3 (at 128, 160 and 192 bit rates) well below other methods (including a proprietary wavelet-based approach and AAC). To my surprise, in the rock examples the MP3 at 128 was preferred. I repeated the experiment over 6 years and found the preference for MP3 - particularly in music with high energy (cymbal crashes, brass hits, etc) rising over time. In other words, younger people haven't just grown more tolerant of thin, soulless MP3 renditions of their favourite music, they actually like them. ****ty MP3s, even. O'Relly Radar quotes Professor Berger as saying that it's the "sizzle sounds" that people are loving because it's what they're comfortable with. So, yes Virginia, iPods really have killed music. People aren't just ignorant of high quality audio, they actually hate it. Gee, thanks for contributing to the downfall of civilization, Apple. Music is dead, everyone, carry on

 

[jewman]

I'm sorry, are they dissing the format? Can someone please clarify? Because I have mostly mp3s, though they're encoded at 320kb/s vbr, and they sound fine to me.

 

[v3nom]

I dont get it... is it saying that young people are destroying music because they prefer mp3s? If so, shouldn't it be the people who are distributing these mp3s in low qualities fault for destroying music?

I actually think iPods have done a lot for music. Sure the quality has decreased but it has greatly increased the rate of which music is spread around the world and gets people interested in music. An American icon such as the iPod allows artists to be easier heard and make smusic a part of the culture.

 

[LFF]

See this thread:

HERE

 

[Loser777]

Sry, didn't see that in a search D:.

 

[krmathis]

How many of these threads do we need?

At least 3-4 of them so far, not counting this one.

 

[mark2410]

at least 47

 

[soozieq]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif How many of these threads do we need? At least 3-4 of them so far, not counting this one.

I thought I was suffering from excess substance abuse until I read this.
So there ARE a million threads already about this? Phew

 

[DrBenway]

The Wonder Bread brand is a license to print money.

People use the word "Velveeta" and the word "cheese" in the same sentence.

Everybody agrees that Britney Spears can't sing or dance, yet she sells out huge arenas at ticket prices that can easily exceed $1000.

Justin Timberlake is thought of as a great singer.

The Strokes are lovingly remembered as a great rock band.

Many people will tell you that McDonald's makes the best burger you can buy.


Do I have to continue...???

 

[Brighten]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrBenway /img/forum/go_quote.gif The Wonder Bread brand is a license to print money. People use the word "Velveeta" and the word "cheese" in the same sentence. Everybody agrees that Britney Spears can't sing or dance, yet she sells out huge arenas at ticket prices that can easily exceed $1000. Justin Timberlake is thought of as a great singer. The Strokes are lovingly remembered as a great rock band. Many people will tell you that McDonald's makes the best burger you can buy. Do I have to continue...???

Haha, that was great.