I found this really interesting. It’s a song made
with only the sounds that were left out when compressing Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” to mp3.
Stop and listen to this for a few minutes and we find out why MP3 sounds so "tin can" like when compared to another lossless format such as FLAC or AIFF.
The Ghost In The MP3Beyond just creating a great new genre of ambient ghost music, the piece makes a few interesting points. First, these are real, actual sounds that your ear can easily hear. You don’t have to be some snobby audiophile asshole. The sounds are perceptible even through crappy MacBook Air speakers and earbuds. Hm.And yet we still have people out there arguing the MP3's are all we need.