I'm about to cancel spotify because they make it hard to find original songs. They present me with 'remastered' songs which often sound quite different to (worse than) the original. I presume they get some kind of financial benefit from this, or they would show originals first
If I search for "beatles let it be" I get 6 results all of which are 'remastered'. Most remastered results are not even 'official' remasters released by the band/label, but something done by spotify or by grifters
Remastering is usually mostly just a reduction in the dynamic range of the audio, also known as compression. Sometimes an engineer will have access to the original studio masters and sometimes not, so it's not a very useful term.
I'm more interested in wether the audio is lossfully compressed (note the potential for confusion) in the data realm. 320kbps is pretty much unnoticeable in most listening environments and to older ears, but less than that is a compromise.
I'm about to cancel spotify because they make it hard to find original songs. They present me with 'remastered' songs which often sound quite different to (worse than) the original. I presume they get some kind of financial benefit from this, or they would show originals first
If I search for "beatles let it be" I get 6 results all of which are 'remastered'. Most remastered results are not even 'official' remasters released by the band/label, but something done by spotify or by grifters
Remastering is usually mostly just a reduction in the dynamic range of the audio, also known as compression. Sometimes an engineer will have access to the original studio masters and sometimes not, so it's not a very useful term. I'm more interested in wether the audio is lossfully compressed (note the potential for confusion) in the data realm. 320kbps is pretty much unnoticeable in most listening environments and to older ears, but less than that is a compromise.
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