Posted by Jack on 11/29/07 06:20

Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtri@dslextreme.com> wrote in
news:mcmurtri-BCF038.21010128112007@news.dslextreme.com:

> Audio compression will stay around for some uses. CPUs and algorithms
> will always be much cheaper than long distance bandwidth and wireless
> bandwidth. Regardless of how fast the internet gets, 10x compression
> still means 10x customer capacity. 10x compression on your mobile
> player means 10x the room for music.

Also, there are now warnings of Internet bottlenecks by 2010 due to
multimedia content and increased population/usership.

I doubt we'll see a return to pure WAV files for a number of reasons. 16-
bit PCM is outmoded and inefficient in terms of bit allocation (80s
technology). Psycho-acoustic compression has big advantages beyond
filesize.

I have few complaints with compressed audio at 192+ kbps in almost any
format except the old Xing encoders. As soon as 32gb flash drives get
cheaper, I'll re-encode my library and not worry about mushy anything.

Jack

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