Cory K. wrote: > Sad article on the state of production and how undiscriminating/ignorant > consumers are killing fidelity. > > http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity/print
The trend is not recent and it has been discussed over the last few years. My take is that it's one of the last side-effects of the current music industry dominated by a few giant corporations. Once the dinosaurs die off, there will be an explosion of diversity fueled by Internet-based distribution. Those who want crap will find crap by the boatload. Those who want better stuff will also be able to find it. The bazaar-ification of the international music scene will allow all those different things to coexist. By that time the Internet will be fast enough to allow 24 bit 192 kHz files to be the standard "lossless" distribution media, which will put to rest all issues related to the quality of the media per se. Indeed, we're pretty much already there - this is driven by the needs of the video distribution, with its much bigger needs for bandwidth. So, cheer up, it will get worse before it gets better. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
