Comments on: How I Use My MP3 To Concentrate http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/use-mp3-to-concentrate/ Because a fulfilling life doesn't have to be complicated. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:37:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/use-mp3-to-concentrate/#comment-1206 Paul Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:21:31 +0000 http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/how-i-use-my-mp3-to-concentrate/#comment-1206 Hello, thanks for the interesting post. I listen to virtually any classical music (as long as there is no chanting or singing...) to help me concentrate on work. I can't listen to anything with words or else I can't help but listen to what is being said, be it music, or ebooks, etc. I like your ocean sounds idea though... Incidently, I'm afraid to say that the first comment is complete rubbish. Actually, that's a bit harsh, the bit on losses due to sampling and filtering is pretty much right, but the bit about the brain '...re-generate[ing] all thos loosed armonic frquencies...' thereby making it work harder is wholly inaccurate. The truth is that the precise brain mechanisms involved in listening to music/speech/other sounds are not known in nearly enough detail to make such a judgement (and I would very much doubt that this would be the case). Sorry to raise it, but one of my bug-bears is the passing off of (to my knowledge) unsubstantiated theory as fact in a public domain where it could be accepted as such (I'm a cognitive science researcher btw...). Hello, thanks for the interesting post. I listen to virtually any classical music (as long as there is no chanting or singing…) to help me concentrate on work. I can’t listen to anything with words or else I can’t help but listen to what is being said, be it music, or ebooks, etc.

I like your ocean sounds idea though…

Incidently, I’m afraid to say that the first comment is complete rubbish. Actually, that’s a bit harsh, the bit on losses due to sampling and filtering is pretty much right, but the bit about the brain ‘…re-generate[ing] all thos loosed armonic frquencies…’ thereby making it work harder is wholly inaccurate. The truth is that the precise brain mechanisms involved in listening to music/speech/other sounds are not known in nearly enough detail to make such a judgement (and I would very much doubt that this would be the case). Sorry to raise it, but one of my bug-bears is the passing off of (to my knowledge) unsubstantiated theory as fact in a public domain where it could be accepted as such (I’m a cognitive science researcher btw…).

]]> By: LJ http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/use-mp3-to-concentrate/#comment-1191 LJ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:22:19 +0000 http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/how-i-use-my-mp3-to-concentrate/#comment-1191 <p>I am not arguing any of these points, which are beyond the point of the article. Since you brought this into the realm of digital frequencies and spectrum analysis, I will give you your points. It is no secret that the digital encoding of any analog sound is not going to be perfect. I can argue, though, that most of the harmonic frequencies cut off by the encoding are well beyond the range of human hearing, depending on the algorithm used. Again, though, such engineering points are beyond the scope of the article.</p> <p>My point in the article was that noise-blocking, not relaxing, becomes necessary in certain environments in order to concentrate. And since I do not have the space to keep a phonograph at my desk, nor have the capacity to lug around stacks of 45 RPM records, MP3 and other digital media are the only reasonable answer to the problem. Shock training the woman who laughs like a hyena would not be considered reasonable, I fear. :)</p> I am not arguing any of these points, which are beyond the point of the article. Since you brought this into the realm of digital frequencies and spectrum analysis, I will give you your points. It is no secret that the digital encoding of any analog sound is not going to be perfect. I can argue, though, that most of the harmonic frequencies cut off by the encoding are well beyond the range of human hearing, depending on the algorithm used. Again, though, such engineering points are beyond the scope of the article.

My point in the article was that noise-blocking, not relaxing, becomes necessary in certain environments in order to concentrate. And since I do not have the space to keep a phonograph at my desk, nor have the capacity to lug around stacks of 45 RPM records, MP3 and other digital media are the only reasonable answer to the problem. Shock training the woman who laughs like a hyena would not be considered reasonable, I fear. :)

]]> By: mp3gain http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/use-mp3-to-concentrate/#comment-1190 mp3gain Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:10:04 +0000 http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/how-i-use-my-mp3-to-concentrate/#comment-1190 I dont mean to argue, but let me tell you that im a mp3 software developer (i just point that to explain that i know something about mp3). Okay, lets go to the point: All digital music looses must of the armonic frequencies, thats one of the ways the mp3 get encoded and smaller than the original wav file. And the brain need to re-generate all thos loosed armonic frquencies, so it does the job and the consequence is that listennign to digital music makes the brain works more and many times people feels very tired after listening to digital music. To feel relaxed the analogic recording, reproduced in some old analogic player will be uch better for relaxing. My 2 cents :) I dont mean to argue, but let me tell you that im a mp3 software developer (i just point that to explain that i know something about mp3). Okay, lets go to the point:
All digital music looses must of the armonic frequencies, thats one of the ways the mp3 get encoded and smaller than the original wav file. And the brain need to re-generate all thos loosed armonic frquencies, so it does the job and the consequence is that listennign to digital music makes the brain works more and many times people feels very tired after listening to digital music. To feel relaxed the analogic recording, reproduced in some old analogic player will be uch better for relaxing.
My 2 cents :)

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