"They have a FLAC archive. FLAC—Free Lossless Audio Codec. It preserves every single bit of the original recording. Unlike MP3s, which are essentially musical hearsay."
"...Fine," he whispered. "But I'm still deleting the church's karaoke app." young sheldon s03e14 flac
He turned up the volume. Still, the MP3 file of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 compressed the cellos into a muddy wash of digital artifacts. He could hear the missing frequencies—the ghostly flutter of cymbals reduced to a faint hiss. "They have a FLAC archive
"The difference," George said, surprising everyone, "is that Beethoven didn't write his symphonies for FLAC files. He wrote 'em for people. And people are messy, imperfect—kinda like MP3s." Unlike MP3s, which are essentially musical hearsay
No one responded.
"The song ? Mom, this is Beethoven. He didn't write 'songs.' He wrote symphonies. And right now, his genius is being slaughtered by 128-kilobit compression."