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FreeYourMusic.com
FreeYourMusic.com
Transfer all of your playlists, songs, and favorite albums from Spotify to Apple Music.
As a premium user of Pandora, if you listen to music for 1h, you will use 86.4mb per hour
Another monster sneaking on your data… The iHeartRadio music streaming service offers a 128kbps bitrate option. That’s the only option. That equals to 57.6mb. Just like in the case of Pandora.
·freeyourmusic.com·
FreeYourMusic.com
Hi-res music streaming services compared: which should you subscribe to?
Hi-res music streaming services compared: which should you subscribe to?
Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon Music and Apple Music all offer hi-res streaming tiers, but which deserves your monthly fee?
The battle to become the best music streaming service when it comes to offering hi-res streams is well and truly underway. Gone are the days when all a streaming platform had to do was offer up low-quality Ogg Vorbis or MP3 streams and make you endure a few ads for the privilege.
Today, the key to victory is ad-free, hardware-supported streaming in high-resolution audio quality – and, crucially, for the best price.
So where does the arrival of these newer, competitively priced hi-res services leave Tidal and Qobuz, and even services not in the hi-res game (Deezer 'only' offers CD quality, and the delay of Spotify HiFi leaves the world's most popular streaming service with some of the poorest-sounding streams)?
First things first, should you care about hi-res streaming? High-resolution (often shortened to 'hi-res') audio is a term used to describe music files that have a higher sampling frequency and/or bit depth than that of CD quality, which is specified at 16-bit/44.1kHz.
So a hi-res file can be 24-bit/44.1kHz, where bit-depth is higher than CD quality but the sampling rate is the same, and vice versa.
The highest quality MP3 has a bitrate of 320kbps. A 24-bit/192kHz file takes that to 9216kbps. Music CDs are 1411kbps – remember, they're your starting marker for hi-res.
Although hi-res audio songs and albums have been available to download for several years now, streaming hi-res audio is relatively new across popular music subscription platforms – and some still don't offer it.
While the terms 'lossless' and 'hi-res' may be used in close connection – Apple Music has launched Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless labels and, to complicate matters further, Amazon Music prefers the terms HD and UHD when referring to its more premium audio offerings – music that is 'lossless' is not always hi-res.
·whathifi.com·
Hi-res music streaming services compared: which should you subscribe to?
Why 24 bit/192kHz Music Downloads Make No Sense - VideoProc
Why 24 bit/192kHz Music Downloads Make No Sense - VideoProc
In this guide, we will mainly talk about some information about 24 bit/192kHz music and show you why 24 bit/192kHz music downloads make no sense.
Decades ago, all mp3 encoders were really bad by today's standards. Plenty of these old, bad encoders are still in use, presumably because the licenses are cheaper and most people can't tell or don't care about the difference anyway. Why would any company spend money to fix what it's completely unaware is broken?
·videoproc.com·
Why 24 bit/192kHz Music Downloads Make No Sense - VideoProc
Quantum lidar prototype acquires real-time 3D images while fully submerged underwater
Quantum lidar prototype acquires real-time 3D images while fully submerged underwater
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a prototype lidar system that uses quantum detection technology to acquire 3D images while submerged underwater. The high sensitivity of this system could allow it to capture detailed information even in extremely low-light conditions found underwater.
·phys.org·
Quantum lidar prototype acquires real-time 3D images while fully submerged underwater
Fat Quantum Cats: Physicists’ Record-Breaking Schrödinger Cat Experiment
Fat Quantum Cats: Physicists’ Record-Breaking Schrödinger Cat Experiment
Researchers at ETH Zurich have created the heaviest Schrödinger cat to date by putting a crystal in a superposition of two oscillation states. Their results could lead to more robust quantum bits and help to explain why quantum superpositions are not observed in everyday life. Researchers at ET
·scitechdaily.com·
Fat Quantum Cats: Physicists’ Record-Breaking Schrödinger Cat Experiment
US20150339658A1 - Method of authentication between a mobile terminal and a processing terminal - Google Patents
US20150339658A1 - Method of authentication between a mobile terminal and a processing terminal - Google Patents
A method is provided for authentication between a mobile terminal, located less than a predefined distance from the body of a user, and a processing terminal. The mobile terminal includes an antenna constituting a radio interface suitable for transmitting and receiving radio signals through the body of the user, and the processing terminal is suitable for transmitting and receiving radio signals through the body of the user. The method includes: approaching a user interface of the processing terminal with a portion of the body, triggering an activation of the processing terminal and establishing communication between the processing terminal and the mobile terminal; requesting the entering of a piece of personal authentication data; memorizing the authentication data entered; sending the authentication data through the body; receiving a result of a check of the authentication data carried out by the terminal; and checking the result.
·patents.google.com·
US20150339658A1 - Method of authentication between a mobile terminal and a processing terminal - Google Patents
US9842329B2 - Body area network for secure payment - Google Patents
US9842329B2 - Body area network for secure payment - Google Patents
Disclosed is a method performed in a system comprising a first Body Area Network (BAN) enabled device and a second BAN enabled device, for performing secure payment at a payment counter by a user of the first and the second BAN enabled devices, the user wearing or carrying the first and the second BAN enabled devices; where the first and the second BAN enabled devices are paired for authorizing the user by the second BAN enabled device; the method comprises: establishing a connection between the payment counter and the first BAN enabled device; sending a BAN signal via BAN from the first BAN enabled device to the second BAN enabled device requiring confirmation from the second BAN enabled device that the second BAN enabled device is in contact with the user's body; receiving a confirmation BAN signal via BAN from the second BAN enabled device to the first BAN enabled device confirming that the second BAN enabled device is in contact with the user's body; receiving a request for payment from the payment counter in the first and/or second BAN enabled device; and confirming the requested payment in the first and/or second BAN enabled device.
·patents.google.com·
US9842329B2 - Body area network for secure payment - Google Patents
The Echo Nest - Wikipedia
The Echo Nest - Wikipedia
The Echo Nest is a music intelligence and data platform for developers and media companies. Owned by Spotify since 2014, the company is based in Somerville, MA. The Echo Nest began as a research spin-off from the MIT Media Lab to understand the audio and textual content of recorded music. Its creators intended it to perform music identification, recommendation, playlist creation, audio fingerprinting, and analysis for consumers and developers.
·en.wikipedia.org·
The Echo Nest - Wikipedia