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Artificial Intelligence to improve decoding of MP3 files
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:56 pm
by james
"Using a GAN architecture to restore heavily compressed music files"
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08- ... ic.html
The article claims that AI (artificial intelligence) can "guess" the best way to restore some of the stuff lost when music is compressed to MP3.
Re: Artificial Intelligence to improve decoding of MP3 files
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:33 pm
by hudo
Few years ago i was saying that maybe we can use AI to recreate lost info from compressed files:)
When you look what they're doing with images and Dall-E, i wouldn't be surprised if somebody finds a way how to train a model with compressed music. Maybe thats a chance for Spotify to finally gets "lossless" streaming?
Re: Artificial Intelligence to improve decoding of MP3 files
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:25 pm
by james
I am not too interested in AI as a means of improving MP3 playback (it's always better to go back to the original CD rip - if available).
But it could be really good for improving old recordings (e.g. 78's) by removing surface noise, extending the frequency range etc. It could even (dare I say it) produce a convincing stereo effect from a mono record.
Re: Artificial Intelligence to improve decoding of MP3 files
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:42 pm
by Fran
I'm with you on this James. I would suspect that figuring out how to improve a lossy jpeg file for a photo file is not that much different than an mp3 for music.... to a computer/engineer.
But its probably only relevant in very niche situations.