"an MP3 is not a song. It is a numerical representation of a song algorithmically treated to make you ears think you're listening to music but you're not." Thi

"an MP3 is not a song. It is a numerical representation of a song algorithmically treated to make you ears think you're listening to music but you're not." This is spot on. And the lie kept being repeatedly sold by tech bros and streaming service who need to lower their cost as much as possible and are, in 2023, still unable to stream lossless music to their audience without losing too much money. And the tech bros, for the love of tech, keep explaining you how "you cannot tell the difference so you may as well listen to the lossy song instead of the lossless one". But why? Fuck no. Just no. Why the heck would I listen to a 320 kbps mp3 when I can have something simpler and unarguably more correct? Do I want to go to the Le Louvre museum and see a color print of Mona Lisa, made from a .jpg at 97% quality "because from 1 meter nobody can tell the difference"? For the love of tricking human's eye just as mp3 can trick human's ears? Just screw that mindset of disrespecting humans. Now a case could be made that "CD audio" ain't "human" either but the CD audio format was created in 1979 (?), then commercialized in the early 80s. This was way before the real tech abuse started. It's an incredibly well conceived format and it's all I need. "the original kind of tech bros science nerd need to separate from humanity and nature" They are tricksters. They want to trick my eyes and my ears for the love of Rube-Goldberg algorithms and the complexity deity. They want to trick me behaviorally. They need to sell me ads. They need to track me. I'm off ranting, I'll now go buy a few audio CDs. Early 80s tech, the best one.