Lofty headline, no?
Music is life. Perhaps we should all play music to each other, that might be a better world.
Instead we developed technology to record the music so we can play it on demand without musicians present.
After … Read the rest
Author: ezzy
Rip 2.0
Rip your CD’s again. Do it right this time.
Most of us went through ripping phases where we created gigs of MP3 files and either traded back in our CD’s or hid them in the basement. We’ve been walking around … Read the rest
Mark Price Appreciation Post
Steph Curry knows. Kenny Smith knows. Brad Daugherty knows. Steve Kerr knows.
1989-1994: the height of the Jordan years in the NBA – when the best shooter and one of the best overall point guards in the league went without … Read the rest
Oklahoma USA
No tolerance for the singing college kids on the bus. The frat brothers and their sorority dates deserve to be expelled from school. Maybe daddy will stop paying for some of them and they can go to community college and … Read the rest
Welcome to 1979
Me likee
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The New Kid On The High Resolution Block – MQA
Well this is getting interesting. British company Meridian has come up with something that goes beyond just a format or delivery mechanism, and also involves lossy compression, yet it still looks like a potential future audio technology we need to … Read the rest
The Power Of A Musical Mind
Yes computer’s seem amazing, but then there’s human’s and the rest of the animal kingdom. Wow.
Human’s ability to process music and lyrics, whether it be creation, memory, or playback is astounding and mysterious.
Certain rare people are called prodigy, … Read the rest
Lots of Gadgets Are Spying On You
I covered it last week here. Samsung gets called out for their smart TV’s listening and transmitting everything we say to a third party. Very 1984. You might have thought ‘Samsung isn’t the only one doing it’ – and … Read the rest
NBA Drama Lesson
Heehee great Cleveland joke hidden in this cartoon about the gods of sport wanting to fix basketball. We love our sports drama!
… Read the restI Thought It Was Gone…
… or I was losing my hearing.
Words of wisdom from the people that know music (the people that make music):
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Excellent work by Ryan letting you hear an approximation of what they are removing from MP3 files when doing “lossy” compression.
This is what the MP3 programmers deem unimportant in your music. You can play the video with it’s own … Read the rest
Stewart’s Daily Show Coming To An End
For 17 years Jon Stewart has given much of late night America their politics and culture in a groundbreaking comedy format. The Daily Show was uniquely funny and timely like very few other formats, and the gamut of guests kept … Read the rest
The Office of the Future
Many of us don’t “go into the office” anymore. New cubicle farms are not spreading across the land.
The coffeeshop is the office, the extra bedroom is a command center, or you do your work while mobile through … Read the rest
Samsung TV is Listening To You
Samsung Warns Smart TV Customers That Personal Conversations Will Be Recorded & Shared
It sucks being right about this. As soon as the devices are listening to us and watching us at all times, there will be no shred of … Read the rest
The Complicated World of Hearing
What do you hear?
Everything you can.
How do you hear?
Binaurally through the ears using mechanoreceptors in the form of tiny hairs called follicular receptors. Additional data is picked up by … Read the rest
Word of the Day: Provenance
Provenance - Noun : origin, source, place of origin; birthplace, fount, roots, pedigree, derivation, root
You hear it on antiques shows and now you hear about it in digital music, and it’s … Read the rest
Katy Scary
The Super Bowl halftime show was a total disaster. It had none of the demographics pleased.
I was at a party with a bunch of people and their kids, some of who were teenage Katy Perry fans, and even they… Read the rest
Right, Natural, and Real
I’ve been telling you all about my snazzy new music player. And I’ve been fighting the good fight with online math geniuses that claim there is no such thing as hi-res. Here’s another review of the PonoPlayer, along with … Read the rest