On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, David Honig wrote:
At 10:52 AM 10/6/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote:
For the sake of us audiophiles, please don't. MP3 is tinny and flat at best;
Then why are you 'audiophiles' traumatizing yourselves by listening to it?
For the most part, I'm not. I had just hoped to have a better music format available on the web, and it looks like MP3 is blocking it from happening.
We're talking about covertext, not rec.audio.cypherpunks.audiophile
To your message recipient, it's covertext. To everybody else who downloads tunes, (since you're talking about putting stego in *all* MP3s downloaded from your site) it's degraded sound quality. Understand, it's your site and you do what you want: I'm just saying MP3 is already too thin. My crypto-relevant warning to you is that if you stego it at all heavily, the difference will be audible to some people. Even if you can't hear the difference, somebody (maybe a lot of somebodys) will be able to, and this could tip snoops off to the existence of the stegogram. Bear