Re: "Re: @Rob 10 - and your mum, too → #"
And my mum too...?
Andrew, my mother (who died when I was a teenager), would often remind me that I no more need to correct a fool than a farmer needs to tell a pig that its breathe smells like manure.
Posts by Rob 10
3 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Aug 2009
Cloud iTunes DESTROYS music business FOREVER!
Monday 13th June 2011 11:00 GMT 
Pretentious hack
"The deal-breaker for me is that I really don't want my music, much of which was encoded very carefully, chewed up and spat back at me in AAC format."
As one of the team that originally developed the AAC format in the late 90s, I find pretentious opinions like this quite insulting. If you bothered to do some proper research you'd know the real consequences of encoding music with the AAC codec. A quality assessment such as "chewed up and spat out" is so wide of the mark it calls into question the credibility of your entire article.
FYI: I was a research scientist on the MPEG technology programme between 1998 and 2002, and worked exclusively in psychoacoustic modelling. And back at Philips NatLab we used to use the FYI acronym somewhat differently. Clue: the "i" stands for "idiot".
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