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This isn't "racial bias" and has nothing do with race, but the types of music MP3 developers, who were western men, decided to use as a reference. Famously, Kar
by drzaiusapelord 6y ago
This isn't "racial bias" and has nothing do with race, but the types of music MP3 developers, who were western men, decided to use as a reference. Famously, Karlheinz Brandenburg focused on making 'Tom's Diner' sound good, which suggests the mp3 model is strongly optimized to rock music and, as others have claimed, sounds sub-optimal when encoding non-Western music.
Your comment was good until you got into an unfounded and reactionary "reverse racism" accusation.
- nayuki 6y agoI read somewhere that Tom's Diner is used for lossy audio codec evaluations because it is a clear, strong a capella voice. It's been said that humans are sensitive to even minor distortions in vocal quality. You can sing a capella in any language, and it is not limited to western music. Sorry, I don't have references to offer.
- niftich 6y agoThe line "I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a capella voice", a quote from MP3 author Karlheinz Brandenburg, first appeared in the article 'Ich Bin Ein Paradigm Shifter' [1] by Hilmar Schmundt, published June 2000 in the magazine eCompany Now, a year before that magazine merged with its rival Business 2.0. (The Wikipedia article on Tom's Diner says anachronistically that the quote appeared in Business 2.0 magazine. This has been present on the page since the very first revision [2].) [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20001003052745/http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,6590,00.html http://web.archive.org/web/20001003052745/http://www.ecompan... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%27s_Diner&oldid=8193154 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%27s_Diner&old...