| Amos, Tori - The Backyard, Austin, TX |
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| Recorded at The Backyard, Austin, TX, USA. Excellent audience recording. From the info file: Tori Amos April 26,2003 The Backyard Austin, TX Source: AT 853>Sound Professional Battery Box>Nomad Jukebox 3 @ 48k Taper: roio420 (roio420@hotmail.com) Location: section C row 19 seat 19 Conversion: Nomad JB3>1394 FireWire>CDWave (WAV splitter)>MKW Audio Compression Tool 01) Wampum Prayer 02) A Sorta Fairytale 03) Sugar 04) Father Lucifer 05) God 06) Rattlesnakes 07) Girl 08) Black-Dove (January) 09) Wednesday ~Band Leaves~ 10) China 11) Vincent (Starry Starry Night) 12) Carbon ~Band Returns~ 13) Putting The Damage On 14) Cornflake Girl 15) Sweet Dreams (with band!) 16) The Waitress 17) Precious Things 18) I Can't See New York 19) Iieee 1st Encore 20) Taxi Ride 21) Spark 2nd Encore 22) Glory Of The 80's 23) Hey Jupiter SHN?! WTF?! You jumped on the MP3 bandwagon didnt you? Shame on you. SHN is the file extension for an audio compression named Shorten. SHN's can compress WAV's without loosing any frequencies. Also it has no gap in between tracks, which is nice. In retrospect - MP3's = Lossy SHN's = Lossless There are also other lossless formats including Ape, WavPac, RKAU and Flac. SHNs suck! They are so large, who cares about little frequencies?! Obviously we do! And we care for you.....You see Johnny, due to the compression, which leaves certain sounds out, the ears would become lazy and degrade. Unlike with compression and decompression of computer programs (e.g. ZIP), that is to say, during lossy data compression (data reduction) the original signal is not reconstructed 1:1, but to reduce the data amount, only control signals for a synthesizer programs (called CODEC) get recorded, those are optimized in a way that during rendition the CODEC can reconstruct from these an approximation of the original picture or sound signal that appears as similar as possible for the human conscious perception, but is not identical to the original signal. The danger of this exploitation of human perception flaws is that especially by lossy audio data compression sound portions get destroyed those, although the brain would not pass them to the conscious awareness, are likely necessary for the human hearing's own perpetual calibration. Possible consequences of intensive consumption of datareduced audio material could therefore include ear noises (tinitus), a general degradation of the perception of quiet sounds, as well as a worsened timbre perception (a so-called 'tin ear'), which would make the human of the cyberage even more insensitive than he already yet has become by the continuous mass media infotrash bombardment he is exposed to. Actually it is still unclear whether the consequences of such maladjustments are only temporary (similarly like seeing the world in green/ red discoloured after taking off red/ green 3D glasses) or if the continuous consumption of neuroacoustically datareduced sounds can lead to long lasting or even permanent damage. *** So you see the reason we prohibit MP3 is for your safety. |