bluetooth sounds bad
hadn't checked on my mobile. spotify's embeds seem to play here while i'm signed in circa 6/13/23.
i know. life without wires is pretty great. i should be happy that people listen to anything. i could restrict myself to only mixing using bluetooth. however, bluetooth's audio sucks. it sounds like shit. i will take an unbalanced sound source and run it through all sorts of effects (maybe even with distortion induced from overdriven volume on speakers and/or from microphones) just because i like the eventual timbre of the sound. [even with a wired audio chain different speakers will reproduce audio signals differently.] i don't really need to worry about bluetooth compression/decompression or lossy audio formats to publish music. i'm not yet interested in the possibilities of utilizing frequent digital artifacts or convenience driven, overall bandwidth limitations as musical expression. did notice that car manufacturers won't include cd players soon. i don't have a single cd available for sale. i do listen to cds.
[yes, i do politely disagree with the above article. your audio quality will always default to the level of the worst piece of equipment used to reproduce it.]
the range and character of sounds from a 44.1 kHz @ 16 bit recording might not differ much from one stored with 48 kHz @ 24 bit resolution. there's not much difference between their Nyquist frequencies.
so if people can't hear a 22.5 kHz or 24 kHz tone why play it back? because tones above our ability to hear affect the sounds we can hear. the question becomes at what point do those unheard overtones fail to meaningfully interact with vibrations in the audible range. [or if speakers can't play those overtones... ]
there also might not be much difference between sounds reproduced from 16 bit and 24 bit resolutions depending on the digital to analog converter used. a 1,411 kb/s cd might sound just like a 256 kb/s mp3 if that digital to analog quality is nearer to or worse than the lossy audio. 24 bits of digital encoding per sample might not be reproduced by a dac as millions of different analog signals either.
would be nice if i knew what format to publish. guess i could just default to a standard that people could downsample from, again.
https://www.mydrivecar.com/new-cars-with-cd-players/
https://www.drivinggeeks.com/cars-suvs-with-cd-players/
https://soundcloud.com/user-899812461/plopper-crankers-yank
thirty first (scrooo64 #33 pad sweep demo)
kvraudio.com/developer/full-bucket-music
added 6/13/23:
wait a sec. have to restart stuff. [google may have disabled my ability to embed clips.]
huh, no change.
going to reboot next and come back after a break.
works again. meh.
end of 6/13/2023: so you do this because why?
added 6/14/23:
when i started putting songs online it was on cnet's now defunct site. that was twenty years ago. their required format was mp3 encoding @ 144kb/s. i forget when music.download.com went offline.
added 6/17/2023:
