At 08:27 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, Nintari Man wrote:
quoted 19 lines Sorry if this is offtopic, but I just discovered this today, and it sounds>Sorry if this is offtopic, but I just discovered this today, and it sounds
>really cool.
>
>--info--
>
>Shorten (extension .shn) is an audio compression scheme written by Tony
>Robinson of SoftSound that can compact .wav files without subtracting out
>any frequencies. It's "lossless"- everything in the original .wav is
>there, so that full quality is maintained. For many traders of live music,
>Shorten files (SHNs) therefore have an undisputed advantage over
>"lossy" MP3-format files. A SHN file made from a WAV is quite a bit larger
>than the corresponding MP3, with a size perhaps ~50-60% of the orginal
>WAV.
>
>--info--
>
>So, 148 minutes of lossless audio on a standard audio CD!? Sign me
>up! Why hasn't this caught on? Hardware manufacturers need to get with the
>program...
How would this fit onto a standard audio cd as it stands? Manufacturers
would have to modify all of their current hardware in order to play the
cd's (much like MP3 cds), making it a worse deal for the average
consumer. Only elitist audiophiles (who already believe analog speakers
present sound "accurately and without loss") would really worry about
losing frequencies that they don't hear.
That, and those people who are just anti-mp3 for the sake of being anti,
much like people being anti-microsoft just cos it's 'cool' and 'linuxy'.
derek
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org