{"id":535,"date":"2004-08-12T14:29:19","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2004-08-12T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T21:29:19","slug":"itunes-and-music-compression-on-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/08\/itunes-and-music-compression-on-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes and music compression on Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, Brother Superior is telling me iTunes is the answer. He works for apple, so he has to say that…<\/p>\n

But I am very suspicious of downloaded music. It just sounds like crap. I mean, didn’t we all move from am to fm and cassettes to CDs because it sounded better?<\/p>\n

I find my appreciation for music is increased when it sounds good, when I can hear the nuances. Sometimes, I won’t even realize that’s why I like a song so much. THen I buy the cd and listen closely and realize that the song I keep stopping to listen to on the radio has great quality sound.<\/p>\n

so…When I encounter the craze for MP3s, it’s like…oh man! it’s compressed, all the nuance squeezed out. I don’t want to listen to crappy recordings of music! I don’t care that I can fit thousands of songs on a player the size of a credit card. I NOTICE that it sounds bad.<\/p>\n

But before I whip out a flame at Brother Superior for recommending the apple version of mp3s, I decided to doublecheck. This guy<\/a>
\nthinks iTunes has the goods.<\/p>\n

I will have to check it out. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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