So how many of these selections are wry jokes? The inclusion of the Neil Young got a smirk from me because of his past antics with promoting his “Pono” high-re

So how many of these selections are wry jokes? The inclusion of the Neil Young got a smirk from me because of his past antics with promoting his “Pono” high-res music service. (2012-2017) The Jay-Z is there for similar reasons, explained in the opening: he was promoting his own high-res music service. (Still theoretically extant but he’s gone back to streaming on Spotify.) And the Suzanne Vega track is there because it was one of the three or four songs that was used as a benchmark for the development of the MP3 format; if there is any song that should sound good as a shitty low-res mp3, it is Tom’s Diner. But what about the Coldplay? And the Katy Perry? And the Mozart - and maybe this particular recording of Mozart? Are any of these entwined with the history of lossy audio compression, or attempts to sell lossless compression to a wider market than audiophiles?