<div dir="ltr">hú a kedvenc számom :)<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez47TXdeYPI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez47TXdeYPI</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-05-15 14:50 GMT+02:00 János Sugár <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sj@c3.hu" target="_blank">sj@c3.hu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">MP3, the digital audio coding format, changed the way we listen to music and drove the adoption of countless new devices over the last couple of decades. And now, it's dead. The developer of the format announced this week that it has officially terminated its licensing program.<br>
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The MP3 is dead but its effect on the digital landscape is profound. It enabled easier downloading of audio files during the broadband days of the internet and drove technical newcomers to join the cyber age. The iPod and iTunes both fueled a new era for Apple and led to the iPhone and all of its imitators that dominate the way we communicate today.<br>
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Unlike vinyl or the cassette, it seems unlikely that MP3 will ever have a nostalgic resurgence. The audio quality is trash by modern standards and some research has even suggested that its compression reinforces perceived negative emotional characteristics in musical instruments to the detriment of positive emotional characteristics.<br>
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In honor of the MP3, let's all listen to the song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whbabi7KA-8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=whbabi7KA-8</a> that Karlheinz Brandenburg used as a reference track while he was developing it in 1994.<br>
Below, you'll find an embed of all the audio that's lost on the track when it's run through MP3 compression.<br>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/120153502" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/120153502</a><br>
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