Petzold on Lossy Music

"The "digital revolution" wasn't supposed to be like this." says Charles in a very interesting piece.

I rarely listen to classical music, but that's not the point I want to make. I couldn't help thinking that maybe there's an echo in Charles' points in photography. Is a consequence of the digital revolution that we're becoming accustomed to accepting lower image quality in photographs? With masses of digital cameras are we trading quality for quantity?

Many argue that desktop publishing had a similar impact on the quality of typography — we ended up with more printed stuff but the visual quality (and readability) of the majority went down.

Does the ease with which we can do something mean we can't help but take less care over it? Are some things better off being left harder to do so will continue to appreciate them more? Does this mean that the explosion of blogging will make it much harder to dig out the high quality journalism from the digital noise?

I'm sure minds immensely superior to mine have written more extensively and more intelligently on this subject, but to go off and research that would be much more effort than I envisaged when I started this post, it's much easier to just hit 'publish' in Live Writer. And, with that thought, I've probably answered most of the questions, questions, questions...

 

tags: music | photography | quality