Category: Music
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Music In Tahoe: Hellish
The Biggest Problems with MacOS Tahoe’s Music.app A lot has been written about MacOS 16‘s (Tahoe) strengths and features, but little about how it actually is to navigate around the various included apps. The one most people will be familiar with is Music.app, that prior to the rename was called iTunes. This app is a…
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NoiseHush NS400: A Bluetooth Stereo Headset Review
NoiseHush NS400: (TL;DR) they work and work well. Read this article to find out why you should plunk down the cash for these.
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PowerTunes: the iTunes Library Management App I Wished For
If you are anything like me, you will love PowerTunes. The reason for this is that I have an iTunes library with tens of thousands of songs that started about a decade ago from ripped CDs. This library has been moved from computer to computer. As a result of this it has built up a…
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Pono: Neil Young Thinks CDs Suck
I got a ton of flack from people on Ars when I commented that CD quality audio lost a lot of information that greatly affected a listener’s perception, and MP3 and other compressed audio formats simply made a bad situation worse. I over-simplified my argument to keep it approachable, and had some wannabe audio experts…
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44kHz is not enough
In this article (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/does-mastered-for-itunes-matter-to-music-ars-puts-it-to-the-test.ars) Chris Foresman concludes erroneously that a 44.1kHz sampling frequency with 16-bits of resolution is plenty to faithfully reproduce the spectrum of audible sounds “good enough” for most people. The sample rate of CDs is underpowered, because it should be at least comparable to the limits of human hearing. At 44.1kHz the…