Monday, April 13, 2015

Vad är det som låter? (What's that sound?)

How are you listening to music these days? Maybe as many people, streamed music from Spotify or Youtube via the mobile phone using headphones? Did you ever think about the quality of the headphones, the quality of the phone's DA-converter or the bit rate of the streamed material? Did you know that streamed music is very likely degraded in quality, compared to CD or to other lossless formats?

If you know Swedish, listen to Anders Olséns documentary "Vad är det som låter" about degraded music, from Sveriges Radio P2!

Make sure to download and listen to the program via any of these lossless formats:
Wav: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=4112&artikel=6130756
FLAC: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=4112&artikel=6130753

Information about the program (in Swedish) can be found here: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/529585?programid=4112

The mp3-file that can be downloaded from the link above is encoded with 128kbps only, and should therefore NOT be used to listen to the program!


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