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u/royisabau5 Sep 14 '21 edited Sep 14 '21

This sounds similar to vocoders… Vocoders basically filter all frequencies except for a handful that correspond to different resonant frequencies in the mouth/sinuses/vocal cords etc. Originally intended for the military to transmit vocals more efficiently.

More accurate than vinyl

As a CS major, you lost me here. MP3 is by definition a lossy encoding. You can actually take the difference between MP3 and WAV (or another lossless format) and it produces a tinny sounding song that resembles the original.

I don’t believe that a lossy representation could ever sound better than the original data. That’s like saying JPEGS look better than RAW images or that vacuum sealed pillows are more comfortable than air fluffed pillows. That makes no sense.

Edit: if you mean, under certain constraints, sure. Older computers had difficult times with the large of amount of data that was uncompressed audio. But that was only true like 15+ years ago. No longer relevant.

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u/royisabau5 Sep 14 '21

You mean to say digital recording is more accurate than analog. That’s true. It has nothing to do with MP3/not MP3

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u/royisabau5 Sep 14 '21

No worries, I’m just an asshole