He wasn't kidding about destroying her voice, i always had trouble sometimes hearing a difference between flac and mp3, but after the transition in that clip you can clearly hear the change.
Then again we would have been talking about a much lower kbps then 192 still back then.
Nice background story.
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Wow. I've been annoyed by that song for over 30 years, and never knew it was a historic compression milestone. Cool
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The recording engineer himself wrote a comment on that video (I mean this video):
FYI I recorded Tom's Diner into a Nakamichi DMP-100 digital processor, not wanting to add any tape hiss to the original recording. The master was a Betamax tape! Little did we know we were recording a reference standard!!! How can we live without the MP3?? It is an amazing technology. Steve Addabbo, Producer/Engineer Suzanne Vega/Solitude Standing
https://www.discogs.com/release/1302258-Suzanne-Vega-Solitude-Standing
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And I'm turning to the horoscope
And looking for the funnies
When I'm feeling someone watching me
And so I raise my head.
I posted the DNA version a while ago, until yesterday i heard this version that i didn't know exist, nor that it was the first mp3 ever made.
Music history lesson of the day.
And how she is still performing in 2022.
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