March 11, 2016 at 17:48Audio Digest # 1: Materials on Sound, Music, and Audio Technology
Photo Markus Spiske PD
Music and life
1) Musical multitasking: how music “in the background” improves life
The opinion of the author about when to listen to music, and what it affects
2) Listen to music or not - that is the question
Another point of view on "background listening"
3) Is it worth listening to music during class?
Study of the influence of music on the effectiveness of learning
4) How music affects our productivity with you
How music helps in work and examples of compositions most suitable for certain situations
5) Why you need to stop listening to music while working: the point of view of a neuroscientist
Why you should not listen to music while working, and what to do if you really want to
Work with sound
1) Shazam: music recognition algorithms, signatures, data processing
How does the popular music recognition program work?
2) Nine audio localization tips
This article gives tips on how to interact with recording studios and localization services, how to reduce risks and lower costs for sound localization.
3) What you need to know about sound in order to work with it: Yandex.Music Experience
A few basic concepts you need to know if you are dealing with digital sound processing. There is no complicated mathematics like FFT and other things, but the essence and meaning of the things that you have to deal with are described.
4) How to record high quality sound
Four simple tips on how to prepare your recording room and which microphone to choose
Sound quality
1) Is it possible to measure the sound quality?
Why sound quality measurements do not correlate with its subjective assessment
2) The difference between “turned on the background music” and “listen to music”
Opinion of music critic and journalist Steve Guttenberg, who explains why listening to music in the background is incomparable with the experience of a complete immersion in the world of your favorite sounds
3) Stop listening to music on YouTube
Why not do this, plus a little bit about audio compression
4) Does sound quality matter?
Is it possible to distinguish between low and high resolution sound?
5) Why does sound quality no longer matter
An excursion into the history of MP3 music format and the author’s thoughts regarding overall sound quality
PS Other materials on the topic of audio technology - in our " Hi-Fi World ".
