Re: [tlug] MP3 normalization

[Benjamin Tayehanpour <benjamin@example.com>]

On 18 December 2013 14:02, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Possibly, but I've never heard a classical fan mention it.  (Perhaps
> that's because they only listen to radio in the car, where it's an
> optimization.)

I should think it'd be because listeners of "classical" music (i. e.
what non-listeners call everything (including the actual classical
era) from renaissance to romantic or even all the way up to
contemporary) were among the first to abandon radio for local media,
due to several reasons. Firstly, audio quality, but that's probably
only a small piece of it. Secondly, you can't simply slam five hundred
years' worth of music together and expect any but the most cursory
listener to like it all, but this is usually what faux-classical radio
stations do, even though you with contemporary pop music usually don't
slam more than twenty or thirty years together. Not everyone can hear
the difference between CD releases of varying quality, but I think
everyone would be able to hear the difference between Mozart and, say,
Stenhammar, and show a clear preference of one over the other.