Research finds MP3s drain your music of emotion

Thought this might spark some healthy discussion.

http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/05/research-finds-mp3s-drain-music-emotion/

nothing coming from whathifi needs any serious discussion ever.

no access to the original article but one of the comments reads "The study says they chose 32 kb 56 kb and 112 birates as low middle and high quality because listeners could not reliably tell a difference above 112 kbps. Spotify premium is at 320 kbps. Enough said."

article sounds like a load of shit. two links in the link to the "study" is broken

this article drains my lack of interest

edit oh just read the above lol they were using ass bitrates

Study: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18523

lol is anything even encoded under 128kbps these days? Even bandcamp's preview is 128.

'Normal' SQ on Spotify is 96kbps

edit - audiophiles are a disease though

  On 12/7/2016 at 2:24 AM, modey said:

lol is anything even encoded under 128kbps these days? Even bandcamp's preview is 128.

Illegally streamed films have audio in low bitrate. Music is important in movies so that counts

  On 12/7/2016 at 2:24 AM, modey said:

lol is anything even encoded under 128kbps these days? Even bandcamp's preview is 128.

https://i.imgur.com/9oT3keF.gifv

research shows low quality mp3s don't sound very good.

  On 12/7/2016 at 2:40 AM, doublename said:

edit - audiophiles are a disease though

This was originally posted by The Vinyl Factory.

  On 12/7/2016 at 2:39 AM, usagi said:

  On 12/7/2016 at 4:07 AM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 12/7/2016 at 2:24 AM, modey said:

lol is anything even encoded under 128kbps these days? Even bandcamp's preview is 128.

 

https://i.imgur.com/9oT3keF.gifv

 

dlol

  On 12/7/2016 at 2:24 AM, modey said:

lol is anything even encoded under 128kbps these days? Even bandcamp's preview is 128.

DAB radio and internet radio are usually <= 128kbps.

No.

XM Satellite radio has an atrocious bitrate. AAC 48kbps, which is low for that codec and probably sounds marginally better than an MP3 encoded at 64kbps.... 

  On 12/7/2016 at 7:06 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

here are the people that conducted the research

 

http://www.aes.org/about/

 

 

interesting that the pdf referenced in this article leads to a 404

 

http://www.whathifi.com/news/mp3s-make-you-less-happy-study-says?utm_content=buffer264da&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Everyone in that photo looks like a pedophile

Oh shit...Is this part of PizzaGate?

How far down does the rabbit hole go?

  On 12/7/2016 at 6:15 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 12/7/2016 at 7:06 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

here are the people that conducted the research

 

http://www.aes.org/about/

 

 

interesting that the pdf referenced in this article leads to a 404

 

http://www.whathifi.com/news/mp3s-make-you-less-happy-study-says?utm_content=buffer264da&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Everyone in that photo looks like a pedophile

 

Oh shit...Is this part of PizzaGate?

 

How far down does the rabbit hole go?

 

regarding pizza gate http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/583ef930da57e-never-ending-story-jones-remix-x2.php

that's why elseq is digital only

(Bald guy in the top right is the ringleader btw)

guy on the right with the Cowboy Hat probably heavily involved with PONO in 2014.

Low bitrates and even 320 kbps MP3s obviously don't sound as good as lossless formats. Holy shit, who would have guessed? This article is a total lol, basically everyone above has pointed out that really low bitrates sound bad and most people these days listen to at the very least 128 to 320 kbps audio. For some people unless they have a good DAC and amp they can't even tell the difference between a 320 MP3 and a 24/96 FLAC file. Over 90% of my library is in a lossless format but come on, anyone who knows the tiniest bit about digital audio knows that this article is reeeeeeeeeally ridiculous.

  On 12/7/2016 at 8:27 PM, clarktrent said:

Low bitrates and even 320 kbps MP3s obviously don't sound as good as lossless formats. Holy shit, who would have guessed?

I bet you couldn't tell the difference between 320MP3 and FLAC in a blind test