You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021)

Post by ShadowBanThis01 » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 4:58 AM UTC

tech2 wrote: post #60

ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #49

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Exactly. I'd say it's the saddest part. The one time I remember reading that some record exec was challenged on it, and the excuse was "nobody wants to have the quietest CD in the changer." WHAT? As if anyone on the planet would go over to the changer, eject this allegedly offending CD, look at the label, and then declare, "Welp, I'm never buying another album put out on Arista records!" The utter stupidity of it is…

> My 1996 Mustang's CD player has a "Compress" button on it, to make listening to highly dynamic music more feasible in a noisy car environment. I believe _this_ is where the issue mostly originated (well, radio, really). Radio is already massively compressed, and many people were either listening to things in the car, on some tiny little radio in the kitchen, or with awful cheap headphones with their walkman's built…

Post by ShadowBanThis01 » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC

tech2 wrote: post #62

ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #61

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For sure, radio stations always compressed in order to sound "stronger" on the dial. Just another reason that compressing the actual recording was unnecessary.

Right, and because radio stations do that I'd wondered whether marketing choose to "make it sound like radio" so people don't complain when they buy the disc