eli5: Why hasn’t the audio quality of “on hold” music improved in decades?

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eli5: Why hasn’t the audio quality of “on hold” music improved in decades?

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sound is compressed when sending it trough telephone network. Compression was designed to work best with human voice

On hold music uses the same phone system as your normal call, but music is different from human voice, so it sounds bad… compared to your hifi spotify playlist

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