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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Business / Teh Internets Neil Young: "Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, but when he went home he listened to vinyl."
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Neil Young had apparently been in talks with Jobs before his death last October. Young wants to create a downloading application that downloads at the "highest possible resolution," which will reportedly will require approximately 30 minutes per single download. The most interesting thing about this article, however, is Young's stance on the internet, piracy, and the radio:
"I look at Internet as the new radio and radio as gone," Young said. "Piracy is the new radio; it's how music gets around."
Neil Young even talks in lyrics! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm need to go download my copy of Trans.
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One has to admire Neil Young's passion for wanting the public to hear the music as it was recorded. Even though I personally think it's overkill, his DVD audio series is a pretty major advancement in how music is released.
That said, I don't think Apple would ever make buying extremely high quality audio a reality. If you had the definitive most high quality recording, how would they ever sell it to you again in 5 years and then again in 5 more years? Digital audio, like everything they sell, has planned obsolescence. DRM encoded 128 kbps MP3s are the past, you should buy your music again at 256 AAC. Eventually they'll tout FLAC and then sometime down the road, a new encoding of FLAC at higher quality.
If they can't sell you the same thing five times over, Apple is not fucking with it.
That said, I don't think Apple would ever make buying extremely high quality audio a reality. If you had the definitive most high quality recording, how would they ever sell it to you again in 5 years and then again in 5 more years? Digital audio, like everything they sell, has planned obsolescence. DRM encoded 128 kbps MP3s are the past, you should buy your music again at 256 AAC. Eventually they'll tout FLAC and then sometime down the road, a new encoding of FLAC at higher quality.
If they can't sell you the same thing five times over, Apple is not fucking with it.
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