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If you're going to author it, why not include just a few quadrillion \x00 characters every so often in a comment field (or whatever the equivalent is for mp3)?
by NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
If you're going to author it, why not include just a few quadrillion \x00 characters every so often in a comment field (or whatever the equivalent is for mp3)?
I mean, FLAC proves that people for some reason cherish wasted storage space, especially when that storage space is used for meaningless content that they can't actually hear.
My scheme does that, only bigger.
- nitrogen 12y agoThere are audible sounds that MP3 simply cannot encode correctly. One example is in a song by Planet Funk (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166937). However, better lossy formats shouldn't have this problem.
- kstenerud 12y agoIt's also used for archival, so that a few years down the road when a new lossy format du jour (cough m4a) comes along, you're not left with the dilemma of converting one lossy format to another. Not to mention the fact that better quality encoders tend to come along over time.