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Recording Compressed to 1,000 Times MP3 Rate Could Be the Future of Music Playback

The University of Rochester has just devised a way of reproducing music in a file that's compressed 1,000 times smaller than an MP3 file. The way they do it—physically modeling an instrument in a computer and then feeding it input variables (breath, tongue, fingers) in order to generate the output tone—seems super obvious. People were making music with MOD files by recording one tone and generating different notes with it back in the '90s. But actually reproducing the instrument wholesale? That's amazing. More »

3:20 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Jason Chen
10,082 views, 55 comments

Latest by NotPop: @ideaman2020: but you don't need Robert Johnson, just his guitar. and, um, 6 million bucks. [www.independent.co.uk] more »