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Raw studio-quality audio and highly compressed mp3s are multiple orders of magnitude apart.
by Retr0spectrum 10y ago
Raw studio-quality audio and highly compressed mp3s are multiple orders of magnitude apart.
- fritzw 10y agoTo insinuate that the average user is using uncompressed audio is being obtuse. The social context for the measurement by song came from iPod like devices based on the average 1MB per minute of audio MP3/MP4. Raw is 10MB Loseless compressed is 5 Everyone using "songs" as a metric is talking about 1MB per minute MP3.
- KeytarHero 10y agoAnd punk rock songs and prog songs can be an order of magnitude apart in length.
- danso 10y agoWhen the average reader has to store/port songs in bulk, which of those formats are they using?
- Retr0spectrum 10y agoAn unknown quantity somewhere in the middle.
- function_seven 10y agoA “song” is about 4-10MB. Good enough for a colloquial point of reference.