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Apple Music Classical
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I second this! Couldn't agree more. In all honesty, some of the best parts of jazz lie in its history. For example listening to Clifford Brown might make you think "huh this is neat". But understanding his relationship to gillespie, early death, etc, puts his career in a unique and fascinating frame.
+1 on Clifford Brown. I think he wrote some of the most brilliant bop melodies and his death was probably one of the more tragic that music ever saw
What aways amazes me about Brown is how much he accomplished in so little. I play trumpet, in high school was in California All State Jazz and Classical. I'm by no means a prodigy, I merely brought that up to say I know a lot of musicians.
When you ask any trumpet player to name their top 5 go-to artists if they want to sit down and listen, I'd say that 95% plus would have Brown somewhere in that list. This would be true of people ranging from myself to pro studio musicians. Heck I don't know anyone who's dedicated to the instrument that cant hum along perfectly to Jordu or Joy Spring including his solos.
In only 26 years of life, he has become one of the most iconic names in hard bop, a genre containing the likes of Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver.
To think he did that in 26 years, one can only imagine what he'd have done if he made it to 60+!
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#463Oh my, 192kHz/24bit. One would expect Apple would not need snake oil to sell their product. To those not so familiar with audio DSP: 192kHz and 24bit make perfect sense if you intend to mangle the audio a LOT afterwards. At 192kHz, you can pitch shift your audio down by two octaves and still have frequency content in the entire CD spectrum. Very useful, and common, for movie effects. And 24bit, or better even 32bit,…
192kHz/24bit is definitely overkill but I wouldn't call 16/44 overkill; I'd say it's just about perfect and the engineers who decided on that standard when the CD came to market knew what they were doing.
The frequency range of human hearing does cover all the way to 20 kHz, and maybe a tiny bit beyond especially for kids and teenagers. That says 40kHz minimum sampling rate, 44.1 is enough to cover the full range, give a tiny bit for the antialiasing filter rolloff band, and the exact number was chosen IIRC because it fit well into repurposing existing 80s video recorders for digital audio.
The dynamic range of human hearing from threshold of audibility to threshold of pain is slightly wider than the theoretical 96 dB of 16-bit audio, but with dithering the effective dynamic range can be > 105 dB. Of course most popular music only uses a tiny bit of that range, but movies and even classical full-orchestral music can use 60 dB and beyond, for which 10 bits wouldn't be adequate.
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#464Earlier quoted context omitted.
192kHz is overkill of the overkill, but 10bit, seriously?! That is 1024 levels for the whole dynamic range, you are cutting it down to its 64th fraction man! With classical music where it is not filled up to the level of clipping but silent parts contain plenty of details you really must be joking with 10 bits or perhaps rely on listening experience of rap with through the roof bass and inarticulate jabber, there eve…
>perhaps rely on listening experience of rap with through the roof bass and inarticulate jabber, there even 6bits may be too much, I give you that. I think you made a great recap on why this is good and especially good for classical music listeners. But I can't fathom why so many music lovers online are only able to communicate about their love of music while trashing a specific genre. I think more people should be e…
It wasn't about the genre or taste at all but about people accustomed to only less demanding settings drawing wrong conclusion based on that, projecting it on else. The situation looked like that.
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#465A free alternative, based on LPs streaming from the Internet Archive, can be found here: https://locserendipity.com/LP.html
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#467You can try www.Musconv.com to transfer your playlists.
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#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spotify's power comes from more than its ubiquity. Pop music, the kind that charts (and the only kind labels care about), is way more commodified than TV shows. If Sony were to make a streaming service with just their music and leave Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon/etc, their artists would simply fail to chart ever again. The advantage of a single streaming service with all the songs is also much greater than one with all…
I also lack the vision to see what could ultimately replace streaming as the primary delivery mechanism for music. It delivers an ongoing revenue stream, the monthly nature of which beats the old "put it out in a new format every few years so everyone has to rebuy everything" in terms of cash flow, although obviously not in overall revenue. I could definitely see streaming wars in music happening like they are in vid…
I think bandcamp shows that there are people who still want to purchase and download a digital version and contribute directly to artists (on top of purchasing physical media).
I personally, want a lossless version that I can archive, have on my offline portable music player, stream to my phone, and stream through jellyfin to my stereo.
That fits better to the style of music I listen to, and how _I_ listen to music (I don't shuffle and listen to full albums only)
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#469Funny, you recognize sometimes that they took tracks from Youtube: https://classical.music.apple.com/de/album/1553740049
Here, look at "J.S. Bach: Cellosuite Nr. 1 in G-Dur, BWV1007: I. Prelude (Transc. for Guitar), which is recorded by Ana Vidovic. At 1:28, she is making a small error, which she is also making at this YT video at 1:40: https://youtu.be/zBdK-ailioA
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#470Funny, you recognize sometimes that they took tracks from Youtube: https://classical.music.apple.com/de/album/1553740049 Here, look at "J.S. Bach: Cellosuite Nr. 1 in G-Dur, BWV1007: I. Prelude (Transc. for Guitar), which is recorded by Ana Vidovic. At 1:28, she is making a small error, which she is also making at this YT video at 1:40: https://youtu.be/zBdK-ailioA
There seem to be some extra notes from the implied counterpoint, which I think pretty much every Bach interpreter make of their own, but it made me think it would be nice if Apple would credit arrangements as well.
Maybe that's a clustering job for an ML tool?