{"id":41076,"date":"2017-12-12T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41076"},"modified":"2017-12-01T08:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:15:11","slug":"why-hold-music-sounds-worse-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/why-hold-music-sounds-worse-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hold Music Sounds Worse Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2A8q3XIhu0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Scott<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 27 Nov 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here&#8217;s why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Milton Keynes Museum, and their Connected Earth gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkmuseum.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mkmuseum.org.uk\/<\/a> &#8211; they&#8217;re also on Twitter as @mkmuseum, and on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mkmuseum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mkmuseum\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scott Published on 27 Nov 2017 It&#8217;s not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here&#8217;s why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to the Milton Keynes Museum, and their Connected Earth gallery: http:\/\/www.mkmuseum.org.uk\/ &#8211; they&#8217;re also on Twitter as @mkmuseum, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,7,15],"tags":[109,174,200,547],"class_list":["post-41076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-history","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-innovation","tag-music","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aGw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41077,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41076\/revisions\/41077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}