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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 5, 2009 12:02:43 GMT -5
Er, yeah, wasn't sure exactly where to post this...correct/slap me if there's somewhere else I'm supposed to put it.
Does anyone, ANYONE, out there have a clue why listening to music over the internet (via Pandora, Last.fm, SL, etc.) would incite migraines, but listening to an iPod or SansaView all day long won't? It's pretty freakin' annoying, especially when you're trying to sample music to buy and listen to offline...
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Post by Bluefinger on Jul 5, 2009 12:10:51 GMT -5
Er, yeah, wasn't sure exactly where to post this...correct/slap me if there's somewhere else I'm supposed to put it. Does anyone, ANYONE, out there have a clue why listening to music over the internet (via Pandora, Last.fm, SL, etc.) would incite migraines, but listening to an iPod or SansaView all day long won't? It's pretty freakin' annoying, especially when you're trying to sample music to buy and listen to offline... You might be more sensitive to the heavier encoding that streaming songs undergo in order to be playable over a internet connection. Could be simply that the quantisation noise that you would notice or be affected by with streaming tracks isn't as noticeable with tracks of higher quality encoding that you would encounter. Plus, different codecs have different responses with the quality of sound with the encoding quality, so with what a track is normally encoded for playback on an iPod would be generally better than what you'd get over a internet stream. EDIT: Also, moved it to the Science & Tech. section as the question is technology and health related. |
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 5, 2009 12:14:35 GMT -5
Er, yeah, wasn't sure exactly where to post this...correct/slap me if there's somewhere else I'm supposed to put it. Does anyone, ANYONE, out there have a clue why listening to music over the internet (via Pandora, Last.fm, SL, etc.) would incite migraines, but listening to an iPod or SansaView all day long won't? It's pretty freakin' annoying, especially when you're trying to sample music to buy and listen to offline... You might be more sensitive to the heavier encoding that streaming songs undergo in order to be playable over a internet connection. Could be simply that the quantisation noise that you would notice or be affected by with streaming tracks isn't as noticeable with tracks of higher quality encoding that you would encounter. Plus, different codecs have different responses with the quality of sound with the encoding quality, so with what a track is normally encoded for playback on an iPod would be generally better than what you'd get over a internet stream. EDIT: Also, moved it to the Science & Tech. section as the question is technology and health related. D'oh. I almost posted it here, but then went "Naaah I probably shouldn't." Maybe that's it, then. :/ Now I need to figure out what makes me more sensitive to such things and hope it's not serious...besides seriously annoying. |
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Post by Bluefinger on Jul 5, 2009 12:18:00 GMT -5
D'oh. I almost posted it here, but then went "Naaah I probably shouldn't." Maybe that's it, then. :/ Now I need to figure out what makes me more sensitive to such things and hope it's not serious...besides seriously annoying. Some people are just more sensitive to noise than others, so I don't think it is THAT serious, unless it provokes some very strong migraines, etc. Or it could be that your brain is more of an audiophile than you'd think  |
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 5, 2009 12:36:28 GMT -5
D'oh. I almost posted it here, but then went "Naaah I probably shouldn't." Maybe that's it, then. :/ Now I need to figure out what makes me more sensitive to such things and hope it's not serious...besides seriously annoying. Some people are just more sensitive to noise than others, so I don't think it is THAT serious, unless it provokes some very strong migraines, etc. Or it could be that your brain is more of an audiophile than you'd think I went down like a ton of bricks last night from one of these migraines...nauseous, sensitive to light/sound, ready to kill anyone who spoke, the whole nine yards. Not even a bloody nap helped, until I took some heavy meds, and I'm still dealing with the aftershocks. I do like the idea of being a natural audiophile, though; makes me feel better about only liking bands for a few months before hating them. |
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Post by Bluefinger on Jul 5, 2009 12:51:44 GMT -5
I went down like a ton of bricks last night from one of these migraines...nauseous, sensitive to light/sound, ready to kill anyone who spoke, the whole nine yards. Not even a bloody nap helped, until I took some heavy meds, and I'm still dealing with the aftershocks. I do like the idea of being a natural audiophile, though; makes me feel better about only liking bands for a few months before hating them. I see... I get like that with some bands. I like them for a bit, but then end up not liking them after a while and wondering how on earth I even enjoyed the songs in question. Other times, I do a 'hiatus' on a certain band and come back after a while when I happen to be in the mood for a particular sound. Sometimes, I even end up only liking one song from a particular band and not liking anything else, purely because I enjoyed the sound of that one song only. I'm also quite picky on audio quality, but otherwise not bothered by low-quality streams to the same extent as you though. |
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