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Originally posted by Paul Turpin
get it right before you bitch guys.
Its not mp3! its AAC - which is part of the new mp4 specification - its a brand new compression scheme by Dolby.
True It is not uncompressed 16/44.1 - but you know what? I think 16/44.1 can sound pretty bad too. If you take a nice 24bit file and use that to do high rate AAC - it might even sound better than mp3. Plus - many older mp3 were enoded badly. The encoding coming from the itunes store its top notch. Stop using old data to make new judgements. |
Come on,
I'm perfectly aware that 16bit/44.1 is not fully satisfactory, but don't you think that this is going backward even more? Instead of setting a new standard of linear uncompressed format that would better suit todays technology, we open the door to something even more crapy.
I was disapointed by CD when it came, and now that I was hoping for DVD audio or DSD, as well as better consumer converters, I will mix on expensive gear to get the best sound I can have to be converted in compressed internet mp3, mp4 or whatever crap names you put on it.
Don't you realise that could mean that making quality sounding records obsolete as you would not tell the difference between a DAW mixdown crushed in a L2 from a nice neve mix into 6000$ compressor ...
itune being top notch, c'mon ...
I had that A&R prefering the mp3 version of a mix I've done better than the file I sent him at the post office 2 days later.
I had to struggle with him as he wanted to release the mp3 as is, I f***king couldn't believe it, the guy had no more ears than a snake...
Am I over reacting ?
I don't think so. I'm so fed up to explain to people in record companies that ask you if you work on Pro tools that there are other ways, better ways for one given project, but no, they are so confident in their miserable technical knowledge that I lost work wanting to go analog or radar or anything else instead of the hype that looks like the only medium they would be able to agnowledge for the moment.
So when those guys will decide that mp4 is as good as vinyl or linear hi def format, and that there is no way to release record outside internet downloading, we would have as only alternative to shutt the f**k up or sell the studio and quit this job ...
and I don't want that to happen
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