AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoWhite noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about itwww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square324fedilinkarrow-up1998arrow-down144
arrow-up1954arrow-down1external-linkWhite noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about itwww.bloomberg.comAccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square324fedilink
minus-squareOskarAxolotl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoOnly reason I could think of is that compressing white noise is very inefficient because of its high entropy. Compression needs patterns and white noise doesn’t really have any.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·2 years agoThat would be true for lossless compression. Audio codecs generally don’t work that way.
Only reason I could think of is that compressing white noise is very inefficient because of its high entropy. Compression needs patterns and white noise doesn’t really have any.
That would be true for lossless compression. Audio codecs generally don’t work that way.