Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
by arp242 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:57AM
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A very long time ago some of the Darkthrone tracks I downloaded from Napster were corrupted and had glitches/noise in them. I didn't know they were glitches, and I listened to this for years and thought it sounded great. I actually regret not having those "damaged" MP3s any more.
60s-era blues is another good example. The recording equipment at the time certainly wasn't bad, but it was not yet perfected. It added a certain sound to recordings from the time that I kind of miss in later recordings.
Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
by jasonjayr on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:32PM
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Way back when mp3 encoders weren't very good, I could hear some of the compression artifacts that were common in the commonly used reference encoder.
I pointed out that sound to someone who thought it was part of the song and forever cursed them with also hearing them everywhere. It's like learning about kerning ...
Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
by Stratoscope on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:25PM
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Or leaming about keming...
You may enjoy these pieces a local ceramic artist made for me:
Anyway, taste aside I can appreciate this particular artist and their work, it's a lot of midrange noise but the musical elements (mostly percussion tbh) emerge from the swamp with a good listen.