audio
Posts tagged "audio".
- Not Every FLAC Is Lossless
A file's extension is a label, not a promise. Self-hosting a music library, I kept running into FLACs that were lossy files in disguise and 'hi-res' tracks upsampled from a CD. The metadata lies; the spectrogram doesn't. So I built a tool to tell them apart.
- They Took the Jack
The headphone jack was the most universal, highest-fidelity, zero-configuration audio interface ever shipped — and it left the phone because most people didn't miss it. That 'most people didn't' is the whole story. It isn't a conspiracy; it's what designing for the average does to the edges.