Week 7
This week we learned how binary is converted into various media including text, sound, RGB images, etc. It is interesting to notice how all these media that we think of as entirely separate can be rendered using 1s and 0s.
As a musician, it is fascinating to see music translated into WAVs or MP3s, where the computer reads a series of binary and spits out a recognizable sound.
Unfortunately in my opinion a digital binary representation of sound does not mach the nuance of an analog sound wave. The discrete changes in the waveform of a digital sound don't sound as good as the continuous wave form of an analog sound.
Nevertheless, it is interesting to note how sound is stored digitally because this is the main way it is mass consumed.
You might find that if sound is sampled more frequently (standard DVDs just use 44 thousand or so per second) the result is more satisfying.
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