![]() In order to be able to do that the algorithm has to figure out where the mask is and there is, of course, a time dimension to that mask. MP3 (and other lossy compression algorithms) use this mask to hide noise (the noise that results from compressing the audio). Short, sharp sounds (think castanets), for example, are a problem.īecause of the way human hearing works, loud sounds mask quiet sounds. MP3 certainly is limited, it even has some problems that are inherent to it, not even a higher bitrate can fix those. ![]() I tried 256kbps AAC files – those were the ones I was planning on buying – and I most certainly couldn’t hear the difference.) I consequently don’t know whether I can hear the difference. ![]() I did just that before I started buying compressed music. It doesn’t matter who can and cannot hear what, what matters is whether you can hear the difference in a blind test. I don’t think you can trust your ears if you know what you are listening to. As a side effect, I ended my Premium subscription, because the 2.5 hours/week, 5 plays per track is plenty enough for evaluation.ĭid you do a well controlled blind test is? That’s, I guess, the relevant question. It only helped me to make more 'accurate' purchases. However, given the reasons listed above, I am now mostly using Spotify for music discovery, and still buy albums. When Spotify was introduced in The Netherlands, I absolutely loved it, and was convinced that I'd never need to spend much more on music than 10 Euros per month (imagine what a save this is when you buy at least 4 albums per month). The lack of availability of lossless streams, incompleteness of the catalog in 320kbps, missing tracks on many albums, uncertainty about future accessibility of music, etc. It's a combination of things that make Spotify subpar for many music enthusiasts. The very same reason they pay some television and radio stations to broadcast particular material: to get people to buy the albums. Why would the labels let Spotify stream the new Paul Oakenfold and Beyonce album as exclusive pre-releases and, at the same time, not allow them to offer HQ streaming for those albums? What's the point? Personally I don't think licensing is the problem. ![]()
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