New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free"

Posted by timothy on Friday September 6, 2013 @11:55AM from the don't-lose-your-composer-just-give-us-the-money dept.

Eloquence writes "Three years ago, Musopen raised nearly $70,000 to create public domain recordings of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, and others. Now they're running a new campaign with a simple but ambitious objective: 'To preserve indefinitely and without question everything Chopin created. To release his music for free, both in 1080p video and 24 bit 192kHz audio. This is roughly 245 pieces.'" Adds project organizer aarondunn: "His music will be made available via an API powered by Musopen so anyone can come up with ways to explore and present Chopin's life."

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192kHz considered harmful (by the FLAC engineers) by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-06 14:40 · Score: 0, Troll

Please refer to:
http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
The above was written by one of the engineers behind FLAC itself.
READ IT. It will teach you exactly what you need to know about sampling theory and signal processing for you to not look like an utter ignorant, math-challenged buffon every time you start talking about bits-per-sample and sampling frequencies. It will also teach enough about the human hearing for you to understand what is really required *in practice* for good-enough-even-for-SuperMozart signal fidelity reproduction.