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Re:What Data Compression Does to Music (2012) by cyberferret on Friday January 04, 2019 @07:25PM (#18829025)
To say nothing of what audio compression does to music (Ref: loudness wars [0])

I was intrigued by this paragraph in the article:

>> Psychoacoustics is the study of how humans perceive sound, and it's relevant here because advocates of lossy data compression argue that when listening to CD-quality audio, it is impossible for our brains to perceive all the data reaching our ears. It is, therefore, unnecessary — the argument goes — to store and reproduce all of that data. But which data can be removed is another question, and this is why various psychoacoustic principles are exploited in different amounts by different perceptual audio coding algorithms.

I wonder if different people will perceive sound differently (in terms of frequency and dynamics) purely based on physiological/psychological traits?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Re:What Data Compression Does to Music (2012) by mark-r on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:14PM (#18829876)
I've wondered if some of the loudness wars are driven by an attempt to compensate for lossy compression? The wars haven't abated - the latest by Panic At The Disco is the loudest I've ever ripped.
Re:What Data Compression Does to Music (2012) by rplst8 on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:26PM (#18829911)
The loudness wars started way before lossy compression was widespread. That said it could be worsening it.
Re:What Data Compression Does to Music (2012) by sandov on Saturday January 05, 2019 @12:37AM (#18830115)
Worse than release day Death Magnetic by Metallica?
Re:What Data Compression Does to Music (2012) by mark-r on Saturday January 05, 2019 @12:56AM (#18830192)
I don't have that one so I can't compare. I certainly won't claim to have seen the worst, I can only relate a general observation that things aren't getting better.