Attie Grande on Nostr: I sort of can't believe I've never done this before... When I was a youngling and my ...
I sort of can't believe I've never done this before...
When I was a youngling and my only persistent storage was scavanged from the school waste pile, I had to be super frugal. I remember ripping CDs to 64 kbit/s WMA files and going "it sounds fine!" (😱)
I've always had a large appreciation for music, and I'm lucky enough to have grown into really caring about sound stuff - working as a technician and sound engineer all my way through school and uni, since about 10 years old. It's easily one of the things I miss most, and that "fork in the road" decision that I sorta-kinda regret.
Anyway. Instagram just shoved a pretty decent sounding song at me, but oh boy the quality was shite.
Here is a spectogram of the Instagram audio vs the 24-bit 48 kHz audio from Tidal. No points for guessing correctly, and a stern look for guessing incorrectly.
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