Apple Music boss admits he can’t hear any difference between compressed and lossless audio: “our ears aren’t that good”

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• 57H ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I collect lossless audio since it makes transcoding easier. I like being able to control the audio quality on my phone by changing around bit rates, while keeping lossless files on my computer. Transcoding lossy to lossy introduces a lot of extra artifacting.

  • realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That makes sense

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• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  As long as it's high enough bitrate, it's ok. You can usually tell when it's not high enough because the subtle or complex parts of a recording end up sounding like you're listening through an ocean.

  Apple is coming up against a singularity problem, imo. Android too -- You can get a really good phone these days for virtually no money, and it's getting harder and harder to explain why you should be springing for the premium phone.

  Compare for example this year's moto g to this year's flagship phones. Quarter of the price, and they're both decent phones. The technology just reached a point where different price points and "levels of technology" are effectively the same for most people's purposes.

  The same happened to Personal Computers quite a long time ago. I've got a laptop from 2009 in front of me right now, and it's just fine -- It does everything you'd need a laptop for unless you start getting into gaming, and even then there's a lot of gaming it can do just fine.

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  • realcaseyrollins ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    True

    Apple is coming up against a singularity problem, imo. Android too -- You can get a really good phone these days for virtually no money, and it's getting harder and harder to explain why you should be springing for the premium phone.

    Compare for example this year's moto g to this year's flagship phones. Quarter of the price, and they're both decent phones. The technology just reached a point where different price points and "levels of technology" are effectively the same for most people's purposes.

    THIS. As a matter of fact, flagship phones have basically the same battery capacity as midrange phones, giving them far worse battery life, so next time I'll probably get a midrange phone instead of a flagship phone (My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S10e, which I consider to be a flagship phone).
• Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  @realcaseyrollins Any sample rate above 48khz is stupid. You can't tell the difference between that and higher sample rates.

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