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Mantras and compressed audio files
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| I bought recently a Ipod in order to listen to music in general and
also to listen my 2 CD of Harish Johari.
I know that compressed audio files, (like MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC) get
rid of the sounds that our ears don't listen.
Perhaps our ears don't listen those sounds, but our centres of energy
feel them, and need them....
When I converted a mantra to the AAC type, I think I've felt the mantra
in a diferent way, like some lack of depth...
Is this true? What is your experience?
Moon
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| Shava_X 2005-09-24, 2:25 pm |
| On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:14:35 -0700, Moon wrote:
> I bought recently a Ipod in order to listen to music in general and
> also to listen my 2 CD of Harish Johari.
>
> I know that compressed audio files, (like MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC) get
> rid of the sounds that our ears don't listen.
>
> Perhaps our ears don't listen those sounds, but our centres of energy
> feel them, and need them....
>
> When I converted a mantra to the AAC type, I think I've felt the mantra
> in a diferent way, like some lack of depth...
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> Is this true? What is your experience?
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> Moon
i have heard some people say that audio recordings intended to stimulate
alpha waves and similar things don't work well after they are put threw
lossy compression.
As an experiment, You could try encoding the discs with a lossless
compression scheme like FLAC and Compare the two :
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
FLAC is completely lossless, every bit of audio that is on the CD will be
in the FLAC files too. If it is not in the FLAC files, it wasn't in the
CD audio either. i am not sure if iPods support FLAC, but i am fairly
sure some digital audio players do.
You could also try encoding them again with LAME :
http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
One of the goals of LAME is to improve the psycho acoustics of MP3
encoding. So it might help...
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| Just Another Person 2005-09-24, 2:25 pm |
| Shava_X wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:14:35 -0700, Moon wrote:
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> i have heard some people say that audio recordings intended to stimulate
> alpha waves and similar things don't work well after they are put threw
> lossy compression.
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> As an experiment, You could try encoding the discs with a lossless
> compression scheme like FLAC and Compare the two :
> http://flac.sourceforge.net/
> FLAC is completely lossless, every bit of audio that is on the CD will be
> in the FLAC files too. If it is not in the FLAC files, it wasn't in the
> CD audio either. i am not sure if iPods support FLAC, but i am fairly
> sure some digital audio players do.
>
> You could also try encoding them again with LAME :
> http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
> One of the goals of LAME is to improve the psycho acoustics of MP3
> encoding. So it might help...
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G'day
I thought Ogg Vorbis wasn't lossy. Am I wrong???
Just Another Person
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