#audio formats

[fuzzyghost]

[todaysdocument]

Audio-Visual Preservation Specialist Jessica Sims shows off a display of audio formats at the @USNatArchives’ Preservation Expo, 3/20/2012. 

Series: Central Digital Photographic Assignment Files Documenting Events, Officials, Facilities, and Operations, 1/3/2006 - 12/19/2013

Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789 - ca. 2007

Image description: Ms. Sims sits at a table and gestures to a display of various audio media, including a wax cylinder, a wire recording, a reel-to-reel magnetic tape, vinyl records, a cardboard record (it’s a Monkees single from a cereal box!), an audiocassette, and DVDs.

[opendirectories]

[savageleewriting]

The Death By Media Man Show

Short stories, audio-plays, and real-life conversations. Dismantling popular culture, contemplating the absurd, and talking in funny voices. Serialized stories, and one-offs. Little shows and commenta

I took the plunge, and paid to get a pro-account at soundcloud; The Death By Media Man Show is now a live, real thing that's going on; basically it's a channel where I put up all the various audio programs I make.

This is gonna be a ramble, okay?

I remember when I was a little kid and I moved away from my best friend, I'd record cassette tapes for him, that'd just be me talking and singing and I think splicing in songs and stuff. That's when I was like, 8 years old? And then through the 90's I was super into making mix-tapes, and then Pump Up the Volume got me interested in being a radio DJ, so much so that I did a week of work-placement at a radio station when I was in Grade 12.

Anyhoo. Now here I am, at whatever advanced age I'm at, and I'm like, obsessed with the concepts of how digital distribution are changing the entire landscape of how we perceive and monetize art & storytelling. Everything's changing; artists, mediums, audiences...

Obviously, I don't know what the future is. I'm not a TIME WIZARD. I'm just a guy who loves writing and making stuff, and would love to find a way to make it pay some bills so I could afford to do it full-time. And this is... another step in my continuing evolution as an artist and a human and a dude who just wants to make money. Where does it all go? What does it all mean? I honestly can't say for sure. But I'm having a good time and experimenting with the creative process, and really, isn't that what it's all about?

So by all means, take this next little step with me, and support me and share me or just be patient with me when I drone on and one every day about some new things I'd love you to listen to. I'm just trying to find my place in the larger scheme of the universe. I'mma just like you!

[idropnews]

You Won’t Be Able to Hear Apple Lossless on AirPods Max (or Any Other Wireless Headphones) — But Does It Really Matter?

If you’ve been hoping the debut of full Lossless Audio on Apple Music will revolutionize your listening experience, you may be disappointed, as Apple has confirmed that even its most expensive headphones, the AirPods Max, will not be able to support the new full-resolution audio formats. While the AirPods Max will be fully compatible with […] https://www.idropnews.com/news/you-wont-be-able-to-hear-apple-lossless-on-airpods-max-or-any-other-wireless-headphones-but-does-it-really-matter/158962/

[mamusiq]

How We Listen:

Evolution of Music

Evolution Audio Formats

Audio Format Timeline

“A timeline of audio formats”: a simple infographic showing when each recording format was introduced, and how long it stayed in production.

I created  this infographic for my Mater’s Thesis, Vinyl Archive.

- Nicholas Restivo

http://nicholasrestivo.altervista.org/Nick_WEBSITE/a-timeline-of-audio-formats/

[tap-tap-tap-im-in]

This is a Computer Science rant.

I was reading a post here about data loss in Lossy-Compressed audio files like MP3, and the author claimed that MP3s lose data over time, whereas Lossless-Compressed formats like FLAC do not.

That’s not true. You will see data loss in MP3s over time, but you’ll see data loss in FLAC files too. But that has little to do with the compression methods used to create the file, and a lot more to do with that fact that you’ve copied the file from location to location over the years, and that hard drives sometimes don’t fail spectacularly, but instead data gets just a little corrupt here or there. All files do this, but digital files are very resilient to this, and it will take decades or some truly bad luck before you’ll notice.

It’s true that Lossy-Compression will lose data over time if the file is decompressed and then recompressed over and over. That’s because Lossy-Compression works to make data smaller by removing some of the data. What data is removed and why depends on what you are compressing and how, but once the data is removed, it’s gone forever and cannot be recovered except by returning to the original.

Knowing that, the premise of the original post makes a little sense. Files have to be decompressed to be played, so you might lose data over time.

But not true. All open files on your computer are copied to RAM before anything is done to them (or portions of files, depending on how big they are and what you’re doing). For MP3s, the copy is then decompressed, also in the RAM. The original file is never decompressed, so it doesn’t need to be recompressed. There is no compression related data loss.

FLAC is a great format, and everyone should prefer lossless formats over lossy ones if they have the option and the space, but your MP3s aren’t going to suddenly sound worse because you play them too much. One of the great benefits of digital formats is that they are infinitely easier to preserve and maintain than physical ones.

Honestly, I think what the post was observing can be isolated down to advances in compression methods in the past few years. An MP3 ripped from disc in 1999 isn’t going to sound like one from 2019, but that’s because we got smarter about things like bit-rates, and now have hardware that’s capable of decoding faster and better.

Anyway, I can’t find the original post, so if you know what it is, please point it out to me so I can reblog the above on it and maybe reverse a little bad information.

I don’t know why I latched onto this bad information in particular, but I did, and thank you for reading my rant.

[lowpursuit]

winamp plug in collection v2

OK, I got a much better collection this  time around. Look at the README.txt for all the deets. For Windows users. 13MB

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EiUhsBWEhyRxbtgJUjZ0Bau2VO7fOHuY/view?usp=sharing

and here is a DIR dump of what is included

[ See my original Shizz post for that info -- http://theshizz.org/forum/index.php/topic/9497-winamp/?p=1378291 ]

OK, hope you enjoy cause  that took forever :ph34r:

EDIT: forgot to add to the README, if you use the MIDI plug in you will need to supply a Soundbank. I included a link to one in WinampPluginSetup midi plugin.txt