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On Saturday 23 February 2008, schoappied wrote:

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> To say if a brain can do it, a machine can do it, is quit a

> degradation of the very complex organ of human that can let us

> experience this amazing world... Maybe you're sitting to much time

> behind your pc... ;)

Anyone here *not* spending too much time with computers and

stuff...? :-D
Anyway, first you say we're underestimating the complexity of the

human brain...
> @Sebastian:

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> I'm a guitarplayer and sometimes want to play a song of other

> musicians... Sometimes its hard to hear for example the exact

> guitarpart... Would be great if you can isolate that part and study

> it...

...and then you want machines to do what not even your brain can

handle? ;-)
> But maybe that is asking for a whole different way of recording in a

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> whole new filetype with a lot of Gb's....

Well, structured audio, or just multitrack + mixdown metadata would do

the trick, but realistically, that only really works if you author

specifically for that format.
Also, as soon as you want any non-trivial processing in addition to

the mixing, you either have to apply that destructively to the

tracks, or you run into CPU load issues in players, problems finding

effect implementations that you can legally include in your files

etc.
It's definitely doable (the technology is there already) and very

interesting, but I doubt it'll ever replace plain, "opaque" streams

as a general music distribution format.
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