Currently we are content with music in its small compressed MP3’s, but eventually people will begin craving better quality and higher fidelity. Most MP3’s that people are currently listening to are so highly compressed, ”stripped of millions of digital bits that leave them with about one-tenth of the data found on a CD track.” A small inventive company called MusicGiants is soon to begin selling downloadable CD quality songs off of the internet. They will be more expensive and require more storage space but when listening devices become bigger than ipods and their small speaker hook ups, people will demand listening to better quality.
Burrows, Peter. “Is this Digital Music’s Future?” Business Week. 2 August 2005. 11 June 2009. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2005/tc2005062_3663_PG2_tc024.htm
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I feel that we are loosing sound quality in our music due to mp3’s and other digital formats. Hence many folks complain saying that records provided a much richer quality of sound than tapes, CD’s, and now especially digital music formats. I am glad that quality is finally superseding convenience, and that someone is stepping up to improve our music! Quality over quantity, folks, quality over quantity. Music will always remain important to human beings because it is a form of communication.
ReplyDeleteA higher quality replacement for mp3s has been around for a long time now. It's called FLAC, unfortunately FLAC files dont play on current portable devices such as ipods and cellphones. They use up a lot more space as well. When I switched from mp3s to FLAC, my music collection from a little over 5gbs to about 40gbs. Not to big a deal considering how much memory current computers have.
ReplyDeleteQuality is truly an issue that is faced as music files are compressed and compressed and things get distorted, music sounds change, voices change. Number one rule in computers (maybe not), as files are compressed you lose quality of that file, especially when it comes to pictures, so why not music files as well?
ReplyDeleteMost people listen to digital music on their PCs or MP3 players, devices normally used with cheap speakers that mask any sound quality problems. Music compression has played a vital role in the development of the market so far. It's the magic that makes iPod-mania possible, by enabling even tiny devices with limited storage to carry thousands of songs. But if the digital music revolution is to reach its full potential an all digital future, it will have to hit a far better-sounding note. The compressed files sound quality is lacking. If you're listening to compressed music using your iPod earbuds, you won't notice much difference But once you play it on a good stereo, the difference is huge.
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