By Luis Paz. Supplement NO - Pagina 12, March 31, 2011 .- In 1995, German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg, Head of Electronic Media at the Fraunhofer Institute, managed to convert a digital file to mp3 and concluded and the development of MPEG1, Audio Layer 3. In July, the audio compression format that we knew by mp3 extension will be 16 years debated more symbolic and political than practical or technical. The anniversary forced to spy what about the mp3 format as mature. And the first thing you see is something as remarkable as it has left out the use of young people to CD. For the generation that entered the musical experience in recent years, and no doubt was whether CD or mp3, as for the previous, but if you listen to music online or download. There is something revolutionary in that now the two alternatives of recorded music experience with more common among young people occur under user control: the mp3 is decided when and what you hear and see Soundcloud, Cuevas and YouTube or mobile phones, portable media players and game consoles. This conceptual pair streaming / download is a social contract different from the hardware, unlike the old choice between listening to radio or buy a disc. Unable to decide when a song would sound radio (or when it performed live), were purchased under the existing logical drives from vinyl appearance as a process of appropriation. But if all you need to download is online, why and what to download? Why not streaming live? Changes in practices, customs and especially the technologies of recent years could have taken the ownership to that plane, and a tape-recorded songs from the radio because they knew when they would sound and, ultimately, they would not pass followed in the streaming is something that removes the user's control: the need for connectivity. It declined, however, is self-control.
The download appears to be a closer relationship with artist or an album, perhaps as a commitment to new age. Lower their record is really a nod to the artists of this generation under, or coming to it, publishing your MP3 music, streaming is offered for free, and to have and discuss how many had downloaded the album. But there is also an appropriation of the work: and the "suddenness with delay" featuring Napster, allowing tracks down in minutes, was replaced by the real-time snapshot YouTube channel or profile of an artist's Last.fm could be to download a "movement" similar to buying a CD. Download implies a movement: find the disc, find the correct download link, wait to drop, decompression, key input and then listen. Unzip a zip not have to do with buying a CD and break its packaging in symbolic terms, but in those studies.
must understand that it is a logic different from that of the previous generation that questioned the legitimacy of illegal downloading, and before her, who discussed the mp3 for romance or political attachment a physical and sonic fidelity rather than a real problem in the format. There are only two big problems for the mp3. The first is social: the patent is owned by the Institute and its clients, and because the mp3 is basically a language coding, can only be developed by those licensed to it, so that the community can not apply improvements. The second problem is economic and the other: the widespread availability of illegal music recorded in MP3 format. That's the worrying thing for the labels and owners of patents, but not for artists, according to the 2010 report of the British Recording Industry Association, in 2004 all the musicians in the UK earned half that record all commercial activities there , but in 2008 came to earn the same and in 2010, players earned more than the stamps. However, according to Music For PRS, the total income of all the musicians was reduced 7 million pounds.
"The mp3 was created to help record" Brandenburg revealed in the presentation of the latest progress report MusicDNA project, which also works on behalf of the owners of the great cultural industry, a format compression mp3 restrictive than they expect to arrive to solve your problem promptly. The MusicDNA is the seventh level of the MPEG compression, ie mp7. This will save space to include other information: song lyrics, streaming of their videos, news about the band. And advertising, that from now on. For all that, online will have a base instance of self-validation: as a program that, after being installed, is connected to the network to check whether it is legal software, topics in MusicDNA will be validated online or irreproducible.
All at the request of "the industry" Fraunhofer customers are large corporations audiovisual. There are only six of them that control, manage and take hundreds of millions of tickets at universal culture, the Big Six: Walt Disney, Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom, NBC Universal and CBS Corp., owners of the six major film studios and TV and Warner, EMI, Universal and Sony / BMG, the four published 10 CDs and 10 DVDs Bestsellers in Argentina during 2010. The Big Six is largely considered by the remarkable blog The Economic Collapse: are owners of the most influential music channels, news and sports, the most important journals, patent systems and audio formats, music catalogs and major newspapers . So that control channels, playback tools and standards and formats of all commercial audiovisual product. What is more, MySpace, mirage of "cradle of independent music, is owned by News Corp. They are hurt by downloads, free access to information and free use of technologies and media, those who commissioned the mp3, obtained a format turned against them and now seek the solution in MusicDNA.
In this context, the duality of mp3 could become a time when the MusicDNA-or whatever we end this project, is active in a format completely rebel, not only an act of romance of time (this time), respect to the path of initiation (digital, social networking and direct download) and resistance against the trade submission (which appears to be mandatory in the next format imposed by the industry), also as the support capable of stopping the technological leaps station station technology and keep us in it all sus bondades, algo que hasta aquí no lograron el vinilo, el casete y el CD, que cada vez más son destinados para el consumo de melómanos, coleccionistas y trabajadores de la música. Lo mejor es que las herramientas para acceder a ella en mp3, bajarla, oírla y deconstruirla están disponibles aquí, ahora y para todos.
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