On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:28:12 -0400, Daniel Gibson <metalcae...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:12:37 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of
anti-copy distortion. You can actually see a pattern on the data
side of the disc. The result when you encode it via MP3 is some
slight distortion, even at 160kb/s. It's pretty bearable though.
I would expect that a bit-for-bit copy would not have any issues
though. It's not copy protection, it's ripping protection.
Given that Metallica uses heavily distorted guitars anyway, who
would notice?
You notice in the cymbals the most :) And Ulrich uses a lot of
cymbals.
But you are right, the guitars aren't as noticeable (you can still
hear it though).
Back in the 80's, it wasn't unusual for a compiler vendor to release a
"student" version or some such, that was missing a feature like
floating point. The problem, though, was that the compiler would earn
a reputation as not having floating point and people would turn
elsewhere when they would want to buy a professional compiler.
In introducing such subtle distortion, Metallica runs the risk of
being labeled a band with lousy sound.
Note that the sound is fine if you are playing the CD, it's if you rip
the tracks to MP3s when the sound degrades.
BTW, I think they abandoned this, the Death Magnetic album does not
have this protection.
-Steve
The Death Magnetic album had crappy sound anyway, according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic#Criticism_regarding_production
(But not because of the copy protection but because of the
aforementioned loudness war).
*shrug* sounds good to me ;) The production quality is low, but I'm
pretty sure that was on purpose. I've never heard of the dynamic range
thing, and I've never really noticed it.
On another note, ...And Justice for All is an album that you can turn up
all the way and it's never loud enough :)
Crappy sound that I'm talking about is like a "wishuwishuwishu" sound over
the whole recording. I can only hear it on my ripped tracks of Garage Inc
(and only the second disc, the one they recorded for the album
specifically), the actual disc doesn't exhibit the sound. I think they
did something to the high frequencies that messes up mp3 encoders.
-Steve
