24 Dec
2012
24 Dec
'12
4:20 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:13:01AM -0500, Ricardus Vincente wrote:
On 12/24/2012 03:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
And those of today, that hasn't changed.
44100 was chosen for a mix of reasons, the wikipedia article
referred to earlier explains all of them very well.
Ciao,
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FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
44.1 was a compromise to get enough minutes on a
CD, later when consumer
DAT was introduced it wasn't needed to take care about the length, so
they came with 48 KHz.
I was always told that 44.1 was chosen because they wanted to be able
to reproduce signals up to 20K, but the other 2.05K of audio was needed
for the low-pass filters of the day.