kerelybonto
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When I feel like listening to plasticky, hollow music, I fire up my Philips computer speakers and let my collection of about 1400 downloaded MP3s (most of which I also own on CD) roll. I'm in a mood for this masochism more than you may think, since I'm often moving around doing multiple things that don't allow for me to be tethered to my SACD player via my HP-2s.
I can't listen to my extensive compressed music collection on my headphones. It's too painful. Now, I understand that the people who originally rip the music don't use the best software for the job and that there's inevitably some error introduced when a file's passed among users thousands of times. But still, some things I just don't understand. Like the mysterious treble spike. I've found quite a few tracks that, even over my computer speakers, make me wince as soon as they come on -- there's some high treble tone embedded in the MP3 file that is just annoying as hell, much like the sound a television emits. So I whipped out Cool Edit and took a look:
Frequency response graphs from two separate files show what's basically a 16kHz tone sitting in the file. Both of these files were encoded with Fraunhofer IIS.
How does this kind of thing happen? Is it on the encoding end or does it happen in transmission? If the latter, will (legal) digital music transmission via the internet ever be viable, or will these sorts of errors always pop up?
Grr. Anyway.
kerely
I can't listen to my extensive compressed music collection on my headphones. It's too painful. Now, I understand that the people who originally rip the music don't use the best software for the job and that there's inevitably some error introduced when a file's passed among users thousands of times. But still, some things I just don't understand. Like the mysterious treble spike. I've found quite a few tracks that, even over my computer speakers, make me wince as soon as they come on -- there's some high treble tone embedded in the MP3 file that is just annoying as hell, much like the sound a television emits. So I whipped out Cool Edit and took a look:
Frequency response graphs from two separate files show what's basically a 16kHz tone sitting in the file. Both of these files were encoded with Fraunhofer IIS.
How does this kind of thing happen? Is it on the encoding end or does it happen in transmission? If the latter, will (legal) digital music transmission via the internet ever be viable, or will these sorts of errors always pop up?
Grr. Anyway.
kerely