MP3 – Jonathan Gazeley

iPod nano

Part of a series of specially-commissioned photographs I have been taking for use in a textbook.

I have a large music collection, and today I wondered how physically large it might be in various obsolete formats (not including the playback equipment). In its current form, it is stored on a hard disk as 59GB of MP3 and other digital compressed formats. It has a total playing time of 718 hours –Continue reading “Miniaturisation”

Audioboo

I heard about Audioboo – a sort of Youtube for audio clips – the other day on BBC Click. I decided to give it a go, since I fairly often embed audio clips in my blog, simply by hosting and linking to MP3s and letting the user’s browser handle the playback. This doesn’t always workContinue reading “Audioboo”