Timeline for Why is loudness war and mp3 bad?
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:08 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | I disagree completely - it sounds much worse. It just sounds louder. If you like louder, then fair enough, our opinions will differ. To be fair, there is only so much you can do on an iPod or other cheap audio gear as they just don't have the capability to reproduce audio very well, but you can still make it sound at its best by using lossless reproductions. On top end devices, volume compression/removal of dynamic range ruins music, so getting away from it is a good idea. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:02 | comment | added | wat | "It sounds worse on small cheap devices" - but this is the thing - it doesn't. That's the point of doing it, to make it sound better on cheap devices... On top end devices, everything sounds good :) | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:00 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | They are disliked because they make music sound worse. I use flac for most of the music I really like, and if I have a small device I'll use the highest VBR mp3 quality, because it is almost painful to listen to the artifacts you get otherwise. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:59 | history | edited | Rory Alsop♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:57 | comment | added | wat | Sorry I didn't mean that mp3 compression = sound compression (decreasing dynamic range). I'm well aware that they are 2 different things, but I was asking why are they both viewed as evil by music professionals. MP3 compression affects size but indirectly also affects the sounds (less audible freqs, which is not necessarily bad as I pointed out in my example) | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:53 | history | answered | Rory Alsop♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |