"So what kind of music capabilities did ZZT have? Since the goal of ZZT was also to allow players to create their own game world, it’s documented in the unofficial manual [...], but a bit loosely."

https://nicole.express/2025/zoo-of-zero-motivation.html

#DigitalPreservation #technology #audio #AudioFormat #ZZM

Question for the Fediverse.

What format do you think would be better to store audiobooks in?
.m4b or .mka

love to hear reasons in comments

#audiobook #audio #audioformat
#ffmpeg #FileFormats #audiobooks #askfedi

#Apple will soon begin offering incentives to #Musicians and to other artists who produce music using their #SpatialAudio format, which is more immersive. Beginning next year, they plan to offer "added weighting" to such files, which they *claim* will offer higher royalties to artists who use the new format.

#TechNews #TechIndustry #Technology #MusiciansOfMastodon #MusiciansLife #AudioFormat #Audio #MusicStore #Dolby #AppleMusic #DolbyAtmos #Atmos #AudioFiles

https://www.engadget.com/apple-will-reportedly-reward-artists-for-offering-music-in-spatial-audio-183713277.html

Mythbusting Tidal’s MQA Format – How Does It Measure Up?

MQA is an audio format that claims to use a unique "origami" algorithm, promising better quality and more musicality than other formats. At times, it's been claimed to be a lossless format in so many words, and lauded by the streaming services that use it as the ultimate format for high-fidelity music. With the format being closed source and encoders not publicly available, these claims are hard to test. However, [GoldenSound] wasn't born yesterday, and set out to test MQA by hook or by crook. The results were concerning. (Video, embedded below.)

To actually put the format through its paces, the only easy way available was to publish music to the Tidal streaming service, which uses the format. [GoldenSound] went this route, attempting to get some test files published. This hit a brick wall when the publishing company reported that the MQA software "would not encode the files". The workaround? [GoldenSound] simply cut some audio test content into the middle of an acoustic track and resubmitted the files, where they were accepted without further complaint.

Testing with the content pulled from Tidal, [GoldenSound] found concerning evidence that the claims made around MQA don't stack up. Significant amounts of added noise are often found in the MQA-processed files, and files served from Tidal are clearly not lossless. Additionally, MQA's "blue light" authentication system, designed to guarantee to listeners that they're listening to a identical-to-studio release, is demonstrated to be misleading at best, if not entirely fake.

Upon writing to MQA to get a response to his findings, [GoldenSound]'s test files were quickly stripped from Tidal. The company eventually disputed some of the findings, which is discussed in the video. The general upshot is that without open, transparent tools being made publicly available to analyse the format's performance, it's impossible to verify the company's claims.

We've had fun looking at audio formats before, from the history of MP3 to musing on digital audio at truly ridiculous sample rates.

[Thanks to Chris for the tip!]

#digitalaudiohacks #audio #audioformat #audioformats #compressedaudio #digitalaudio #flac #lossless #mqa #tidal

Audioplayer Deadbeef: Erstes Update nach drei Jahren

Der Audioplayer Deadbeef hat nach fast drei Jahren Funkstille ein umfangreiches Update erhalten. Unter anderem wird jetzt auch das Audioformat Opus unterstützt.

#Audioplayer #Deadbeef #Player #Audioformat #Opus

https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/26953/audioplayer-deadbeef-erstes-update-nach-drei-jahren.html