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0 pointsachillesheels5y ago0 comments

Sir, it relates to how does the information in the mp3 file maintain its fidelity whereas a spectrogram transformation of the original analog sampling becomes corrupted. Are you familiar with digital signal processing and sampling theory? Are you familiar with it to the most fundamentally electromagnetic level of understanding? Are you familiar with how computer memory is electromagnetically cached?

I’m quite alarmed that I am being virtually thrown under the bus by those who do not have the knowledge on how they program electromagnetic waveforms.

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detaro5y ago· 1 in thread

Sorry, but it's patently obvious that you are the one who isn't familiar with how any of this works. A spectrogram isn't corrupted, it's just a representation that chooses to not record some information - and thus it's not surprising that the information it excludes isn't recoverable. Whereas an MP3 is designed to include this information. That's all that is to it. Anything "electromagnetic" is entirely irrelevant at that level.

achillesheelsOP5y ago

Well thank you for educating me on the spectrogram. But is not the spectrogram a digital system, ie software, output? Are you simply saying the program itself does not find it resourceful to reconstruct the analog time-series with complete fidelity? Why wouldn’t it? In theory it should be able to, know?

I had been merely supposing the spectrogram software programming causes such spurious frequencies rather than actual filtering of what is still fundamentally electromagnetic action.

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