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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by arp242 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:57AM (#26412568)
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 (#26415149)
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 (#26416463)
Or leaming about keming...

You may enjoy these pieces a local ceramic artist made for me:

https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb

Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by sonofhans on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:29PM (#26418557)
That yellow tin is just ... evil. You are a bad person and you should feel bad :D
Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by c5karl on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:16PM (#26417127)
Compact Disc audio is uncompressed.