Unintended Aural Consequences of MP3 Compression 670
zenst writes "A rather interesting read about possible damage to your hearing due to the way most audio compression techneques work. They mainly work by presenting a signal that the brain perceives to be the same as the original and it is this assumption that could effect our hearing and the way we hear."
woo-whooo (Score:3, Funny)
Oh thats what it is... (Score:5, Funny)
Shhh! Don't Tell the RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
Knowing them... they might try giving money to help the military research sonic based weapons and get something to fight those pesky pirates!
Then again I suppose it will also depend on the quality of the speakers, and what frequency range they can properly output (as well as the soundcard and encoded track).
Music type... (Score:5, Funny)
Let's see... (Score:3, Funny)
Is there anything left that wont slowly kill or mame you over time? They wont be happy until I'm sitting in a darkened padded room eating a liquid only diet.
Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Ohhh Kay then...
Think I'll wait till someone with a smidgen of credibility has something to say.
More RIAA FUD (Score:1, Funny)
Seems to be pseudoscientific drivel? (Score:5, Funny)
He does say that CDs are overpriced though, so it must be worth posting on Slashdot.
The article (Score:4, Funny)
As a healthcare provider and someone that works at Mayo clinic, this article does not even merit the cursory speed read.
what? (Score:5, Funny)
Breathing kills you (Score:3, Funny)
Arrgh! My Eyes! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shhh! Don't Tell the RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, you work for the Mayo Clinic! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let's see... (Score:4, Funny)
You forgot to mention s*x!
However, I'm not sure yet which takes more damage during the act, my genitals or my ears...
Anyway, as I understand the article, only half of my hearing capabilities will be damaged if my girlfriend screams MP3 encoded, because my ears have been calibrated using analog screaming (the vintage stuff).
I think I can live with it either way...
How MPEG Audio Compression Works (Score:3, Funny)
Blindness and hairy palms (Score:3, Funny)
Well with all those pictures us geeks are sterotyped as always looking at, we're heading for blindness anyway (along with hairy palms) ;-)
Re:Oh thats what it is... (Score:1, Funny)
Pure crap. (Score:1, Funny)
This guy is a flake.
His statements have to be correct (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Loses all credibility right here. (Score:5, Funny)
As a side-note, my neuromechanomy studies have led me to a potentially disastrous discovery: gravity is the leading cause of death. Preliminary studies involving rodents support my theory -- many died within minutes of being placed in a centrifuge. Therefore, I propose that mankind be fitted with antigravity suits, so that life will not be hindered by the harmful effects of gravity. It's amazing how long the human race has survived with a daily, constant exposure of this magnitude.
MP3's will kill you... (Score:2, Funny)
I SWEAR
I'm NOT just pulling this out of my butt. I PROMISE!!!!
If technology directs evolution... (Score:5, Funny)
...then everybody only heard mono before stereo was invented.
...then there was no math before the Babbage machine. Thus, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Newton are frauds.
...then video game players couldn't hear human voices before the mid 1990s because games didn't have much speech before CD-ROM.
...there is no such thing as depth perception because TV is still 2D. Thus no one is qualified to drive a car, or at least the people who watch TV aren't. Nor are Slashdot readers, I'm afraid.
Calvin and Hobbes has evidence that the same thing happened to color vision:
Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
Dad: They sure did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just the world was black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yap. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while there, too.
Calvin: That's really weird.
Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily, a lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
[Calvin leaves, meets Hobbes]
Calvin: The world is a complicated place, Hobbes.
Hobbes: Whenever it seems that way, I like to nap in a tree and wait for dinner.
Re:Wonder if same true for Ogg as well (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Loses all credibility right here. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Other research from the author -- Pink is Evil (Score:1, Funny)
Warning: Pink can be dangerous for health!
I dunno, her last album was okay, the title was a little hard to pronounce but I haven't felt sick yet.
*rimshot*
Partial English Damages the Brain (Score:3, Funny)
This effect seems magnified if subjects have been sitting in front of CRT all day reading headline websites and not generally excercising their physical body in any way.
(BTW-Tongue firmly in cheek, no offense meant to these researchers in any way.)
apples run OSX (Score:1, Funny)
with the new version of OSX
Rose colored glasses V coffee! (Score:3, Funny)
From the webpage cited in the parent post:
When the man artificially gets exposed to a pink viewfield,the same waking archprogram gets executed and sets free stress hormons.If the exposure lasts for a too long time,lots of stress hormons are setted free,causing a similar effect as consuming too much coffee,cigarettes or any other wakening drugs;the man doesn't get waker anymore but feels exhausted and even more weak and ti- red,because this maladjustment of his body cybernetics hinders his brain from cleaning up itself.An exposure to a red viewfield starts a similar,but weaker program,because red appears in the daylight sequence at morning and evening too,but for a longer time.
Just think of the money you'll save! I am still trying to perfect the process of "artificial exposure" to the color pink. Maybe if I change the backgroung color of my code editor from white to pink that will be "artificial exposure". I am not sure what the effects of natural exposure to pink are. Since they are still unknown I suggest that you all avoid any natural pink for now.
Re:Music type... (Score:5, Funny)
And I thought that was an oxymoron.
This article is obviously part of a RIAA plot (Score:3, Funny)
In fact, the newer formats, such as DSM (SACD), have so many more frequenceis, that listening to these formats will, in fact, improve your hearing. So, everyone, listen to SACDs instead of normal CDs. beecause even CDs may cause brain damage.
Never mind the fact that SACDs are copy-protected 15 different ways, and that our methods for copy-protecting normal CDs have been shown to be ineffective. We want people to listen to SACDs for, well, their hearing.
Again: Do not listen to MP3s! they only damage your hearing (and promote bands which are not approved by us).
- the RIAA
Re:Let's see... (Score:2, Funny)
This is called a pub and believe me son, you'll like it.
Jpegs damage your eyes (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe only because what your doing while veiwing those jpegs..
ferrous meweler (Score:3, Funny)
So it must be the author's contention that glaring irony doesn't compress well and so intensive consumption of his infotrash is juuuuust fine.
This just in! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let's see... (Score:5, Funny)
They wont be happy until I'm sitting in a darkened padded room eating a liquid only diet
Here in Canada we call that "going to the pub". It's not a bad way to live actually..
Re:Let's see... (Score:1, Funny)
You forgot to mention s*x!
However, I'm not sure yet which takes more damage during the act, my genitals or my ears...
Umm... your ears? Are you sure you're doing it right?
Right (Score:2, Funny)
The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. The problem is that I want to make copies. CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V CTRL+V
There's an easy solution! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let's see... (Score:1, Funny)
"It starts as a frenetic burst of biological activity, with a growth which increases in size in the first 18 years or so, sometimes up to six or seven feet in length", says one scientist who declined to be named,"From there, biological activity decreases steadily until death results. So far, we have found no one who shows immunity to this disease."
Fortunately for the developed world, the message about this terrible disease has been heard; lowering birth rates will lead to fewer deaths in the future.
You've got to be kidding me! (Score:2, Funny)
Someone should check this guy's funding - I would bet it's from the RIAA!
Re:Let's see... (Score:3, Funny)
Life is an STD with a 100% fatality rate. Get used to it.