While I agree with what Lauryn has said for the most part (because we have already seen the effect of Napster on the music industry). We must include one more particularily special point.
MP3 Quality at less than a bit rate of 192 sounds shoddy on the extreme low end and extreme high end. MP3 is a compression algorithm which lops off the signal at the extent of the human hearing range (ie 20, 000 Hz but most codecs lop off around 16, 000), and the sub-extent of human hearing (around 20hz but again most codecs lop off around 100Hz). When listening at home this isn't so bad since most in home stereo systems already reduce extreme low-high end by means of a crossover either in the speaker itself or digitally in the amplifier. At the club however the is no roll off, and things like these become more apparent. Worse is the fact that despite our inability to hear these frequencies, we can hear the harmonics that they create with frequencies we do hear. Moreover even without knowledge the producer of the track may have utilized those particular harmonics. With MP3 those will never be heard. I've heard both MP3's and vinyl on the same system, and to be honest unless you have a good soundcheck and all your files are recorded and EQ'ed properly beforehand, your set will sound lackluster. MP3's with a bitrate higher than 192 sound great, the higher the better, but they take up more room. As we progress into a generation where physical memory is no longer an issue I'm sure this will become more viable. Cheers todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "miss lauryn g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [313] ANyone know about Finalscratch (maybe OT) > i think the idea of this technology is fantastic. however, what i am > wondering is what this is going to do to the independent record label > industry. use of mp3s right now doesn't currently affect them as much as > it does the major record labels. but what this is going to do is > discourage buying vinyl. (at least that is how i see it.) all you have to > do is basically find a track online or find a friend with that record and > rip an mp3. it's going to cause a lot of producers to not make any money. > i wonder how much people are going to start fighting within the dance > music community after this becomes readily available. i personally think > that final scratch is going to be pretty popular and that after it gets > some more attention, it's going to be utilized by more and more people, > especially after they see that it works so well. it's just also a question > of people supporting their artists and buying the vinyl still. (which > is something that i would still be doing if i really really wanted a > certain track...it would cause a lot less of that "ooooh why did i buy > THAT?" syndrome that i occasionally get here and there if i used final > scratch and just had an mp3 of the track.) > > i dunno...i'm just going to sit back and watch and see how people start > changing their minds on the mp3 argument when it starts affecting THEM. > > -l > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
