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MP3s suck, as usual

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MP3s suck, as usual

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"Each was asked to rate the sounds they were hearing based on a list of emotional traits: romantic, calm, happy, shy, mysterious, angry, comic, sad and heroic.
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romantic, calm, comic, heroic and happy were noticeably less present after files had been compressed into the MP3 format."

"They also suggest that the current trend in popular music toward growl-like tones or angry lyrics might have arisen due to their ability to translate well into the compressed file format."

Article: https://techxplore.com/news/2016-12-com ... -loss.html
Paper: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18523

EDIT: somewhat reminds me of this: http://drjohndiamond.com/what-interests ... ecordings/
You may or may not find it ridiculous.
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