29 May
2013
29 May
'13
10:58 a.m.
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 03:54:22AM +0200, Benoît Rouits wrote:
Sorry if i was taken seriously. I just wanted to
translate my
understanding of the link, which was today pretty refreshing to me.
No need to be sorry !
Well, it's as crazy as trying to approximate a
sine with an endless
polynom... (but i still consider that fun :-)
The 'Laws of Sound' remind me a bit of the way chemistry evolved
just before the really fundamental issues started to be understood,
e.g. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory>...
Not entirely stupid as an idea, but it leads nowhere. If anyone
would formulate such a theory today, it would be taken either as
a joke or as a sign of complete ignorance. And if it goes on for
years, as is the case with this 'audio format', it's no longer
a joke.
Ciao,
--
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)