I just finished reading this article http://www.stereophile.com/news/010508ref/
which I found fascinating for several reasons. Not least of which was the idea of creating a wholly new digital encoding scheme. That in itself is interesting, but what i find really fascinating is if we take this one step further. Why shouldn't we expect dozens or hundreds of individually designed encoding schemes? One from each recording company. Possibly one for different types of music. I can see a encoding scheme for rock and one for jazz and one for classical. It would be simple enough if the music was transmitted as a digital file over the internet to also include the decoding algorithm with it. All that would be needed would be a "player" on the user's computer to look for and install the new decoding software every time there is a new file downloaded.
I'm not saying this would be perfect as we would probably see many more badly designed decoding algorithms in the beginning. But how exciting it would be to hear each piece of music decoded with the algorithm the recording engineer's thought best.
I just finished reading this article http://www.stereophile.com/news/010508ref/
which I found fascinating for several reasons. Not least of which was the idea of creating a wholly new digital encoding scheme. That in itself is interesting, but what i find really fascinating is if we take this one step further. Why shouldn't we expect dozens or hundreds of individually designed encoding schemes? One from each recording company. Possibly one for different types of music. I can see a encoding scheme for rock and one for jazz and one for classical. It would be simple enough if the music was transmitted as a digital file over the internet to also include the decoding algorithm with it. All that would be needed would be a "player" on the user's computer to look for and install the new decoding software every time there is a new file downloaded.
I'm not saying this would be perfect as we would probably see many more badly designed decoding algorithms in the beginning. But how exciting it would be to hear each piece of music decoded with the algorithm the recording engineer's thought best.