File compression format found to alter timbre of music causing loss of some emotional context

[Rod]

https://techxplore.com/news/2016-12-compression-format-timbre-music-loss.html
"They also suggest that the current trend in popular music toward growl-like tones or angry lyrics might have arisen due to their ability to translate well into the compressed file format.

 

[amirm]

We discussed this when it first came out: https://audiosciencereview.com/foru...-characteristics-in-musical-instruments.1056/

 

[Rod]

Ok missed that. Oops.

 

[amirm]

No worries. It happens all the time.

 

[Grave]

No sane person would use these bit rates though. No shit low bit rate mp3 sounds bad. It can sound really good at high bit rates, but it is still not transparent to me.