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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/08/DDEJR7KN11.DTL
MP3 music - it's better than it sounds
Joel Selvin, SF Chronicle
Whether you know it or not, that compact disc you just copied
to your MP3 player is only partially there.
With the CD on its way out and computer files taking over as the
primary means of hearing recorded music, the artificial audio
of MP3s is quickly becoming the primary way people listen to
music. Apple already has sold 100 million iPods, and more than
a billion MP3 files are traded every month through the Internet.
But the music contained in these computer files represents less
than 10 percent of the original music on the CDs. In its journey
from CD to MP3 player, the music has been compressed by eliminating
data that computer analysis deems redundant, squeezed down until
it fits through the Internet pipeline.
When even the full files on the CDs contain less than half the
information stored to studio hard drives during recording, these
compressed MP3s represent a minuscule fraction of the actual
recording. For purists, it's the dark ages of recorded sound.
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<But keep reading on the Web, it's an excellent article>
Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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