To those that know me well, I enjoy listening to music. However, I don’t fret about quality as much as some people do. I actually think 192 kbps for mp3s is good enough to listen to. I can bear the size increase for 320 kbps for a slight incremental benefit in quality. But the sound quality for flac does not warrant the sometimes three fold increase in size. When I look at it, most of the time, I’d need to have very expensive sound system to notice the quality difference. And frankly, I listen to music in my car, at the gym, at work and at home so the quality difference will be pretty unnoticeable.
Currently, my iPod music library is full of anime and anime character songs at the moment. I have some classical as well as trance music as well too. I also have some albums that anime seiyuus put out. I have a few random instrumental only music albums. To some, it might be a pretty eclectic collection.
But music is all a matter of personal taste. And I’ve noticed that the one type of music that I’ve pretty much stop listening to is a broad genre I call “American music.” It’s a broad category of American artists/groups in pop, alternative, and rock that have signed under the big record companies. Oh sure there are some songs I enjoy listening to (Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida) but these gems are very rare. I find much of the music that is given air play are not worth my time to listen to. I don’t know if its the composer or the conglomerate machine that decides what “sounds good” when the songs are recorded.
Perhaps the RIAA and the big record companies need to start putting out good albums so their music CD sales will start rising? Oh wait... maybe they should have spent all the money that was used to sue people into producing better music. Or even better, spend all that money into developing a new business model (hello iTunes!!). Ten years ago, during the height of all the mp3 downloading, no one would want to spend close to $20 on a CD for only two or three songs. Aside from the fact that you could probably get the album for free off the Internet, even the hit singles would cost $5. Totally not worth the money. The record companies unwillingness to break up a CD into song components and charge a “fair market vale” for hit songs was probably their undoing.
But all that’s in the past now... what’s still for certain is... I enjoy anime music much more than any other genre. It has much better melodies, beats and emotive response than American music. I want you to listen to an awesome song with pictures from my favorite anime, Aria. This Makino Yui song represents the epitome of what I love about anime and anime music.
Currently, my iPod music library is full of anime and anime character songs at the moment. I have some classical as well as trance music as well too. I also have some albums that anime seiyuus put out. I have a few random instrumental only music albums. To some, it might be a pretty eclectic collection.
But music is all a matter of personal taste. And I’ve noticed that the one type of music that I’ve pretty much stop listening to is a broad genre I call “American music.” It’s a broad category of American artists/groups in pop, alternative, and rock that have signed under the big record companies. Oh sure there are some songs I enjoy listening to (Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida) but these gems are very rare. I find much of the music that is given air play are not worth my time to listen to. I don’t know if its the composer or the conglomerate machine that decides what “sounds good” when the songs are recorded.
Perhaps the RIAA and the big record companies need to start putting out good albums so their music CD sales will start rising? Oh wait... maybe they should have spent all the money that was used to sue people into producing better music. Or even better, spend all that money into developing a new business model (hello iTunes!!). Ten years ago, during the height of all the mp3 downloading, no one would want to spend close to $20 on a CD for only two or three songs. Aside from the fact that you could probably get the album for free off the Internet, even the hit singles would cost $5. Totally not worth the money. The record companies unwillingness to break up a CD into song components and charge a “fair market vale” for hit songs was probably their undoing.
But all that’s in the past now... what’s still for certain is... I enjoy anime music much more than any other genre. It has much better melodies, beats and emotive response than American music. I want you to listen to an awesome song with pictures from my favorite anime, Aria. This Makino Yui song represents the epitome of what I love about anime and anime music.
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