Audio Digest # 1: Sound, Music, and Audio Materials

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Music and life

1) Musical multitasking: how music “against the background” improves life

The opinion of the author about when to listen to music, and what it affects

2) To listen to music or not - that is the question

Another view on background listening

3) Is it worth listening to music during class?

Study of the effect of music on learning efficiency

4) How does music affect our productivity?

How music helps with work and examples of compositions that are most suitable for certain situations.

5) Why you need to stop listening to music while working: the point of view of a neuroscientist

Why you should not listen to music while working, and what to do if you really want

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Working with sound

1) Shazam: music recognition algorithms, signatures, data processing

How does popular music recognition software work?

2) Nine audio localization tips

This article provides tips on how to interact with recording studios and localization services, how to reduce risks and reduce the cost of localizing sound.

3) What you need to know about sound in order to work with it: Experience Yandex.Music

A few basic concepts you need to know if you are dealing with digital audio processing. There is no complex mathematics like the FFT and other things, but it describes the essence and meaning of the things that you have to face.

4) How to record high quality sound

Four simple tips on how to prepare a recording room and which microphone to choose.

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Sound quality

1) Is it possible to measure sound quality?

Why measurements of sound quality do not correlate with his subjective assessment

2) The difference between "turning on the background music" and "listening to music"

Opinion of music critic and journalist Steve Guttenberg, who explains why listening to music in the background is incomparable with the impressions of a complete immersion in the world of favorite sounds

3) Stop listening to music on YouTube

Why not do this, plus a little bit about sound compression

4) Does sound quality matter?

Is it possible to distinguish between low and high resolution sound?

5) Why sound quality no longer matters

Excursion into the history of MP3 music format and the author’s thoughts on the quality of sound in general

PS Other materials on the topic of audio - in our " Hi-Fi World ".