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San Francisco (CNN) -- Apple and other digital music retailers are in discussions with record labels to improve the quality of the song files they sell, executives involved in the talks say. As a result, online music stores could eventually offer songs that sound truer to their original recordings, perhaps at a premium price. Professional music producers generally capture studio recordings in a 24-bit, high-fidelity audio format. Before the originals, or "masters" in industry parlance, are pressed onto CDs or distributed to digital sellers like App From there, the audio can be compressed further in order to minimize the time the music will take to download or to allow it to be streamed on-the-fly over the internet. Why don't record labels at least give retailers the option of working from higher-grade recordings? "Why?" Jimmy Iovine, a longtime music executive, asked rhetorically. "I don't know. It's not because they're geniuses." |
Gregg Janman wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 09:48 |
I think it's about time Apple started to support FLAC. |
TotalSonic wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:28 |
Got to say also once again the majors are seriously behind the times in this in that tracks from a good number of independents has been available in high-res downloads for a few years now ... |
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Finally I heartily agree with Bruno that 16bit/44.1kHz well mastered - without being hyper limited or clipped - can in fact sound far superior to 24bit/96kHz that has been crushed. |
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perhaps at a premium price. |
MoreSpaceEcho wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:26 | ||
what do you guys think about this? i think it's a mistake. to my mind, you'd be more likely to entice people to get the hi-res versions if they were the same price as the mp3s. sure, i understand 'you should pay more for higher quality', but since these days it seems to be something of a struggle to get people to pay for anything AT ALL... |
Adam Dempsey wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:04 |
It was encouraging, reading that CNN piece today. |
jlapointe wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:08 |
Plus virtually no portable players support 24 bit playback, but almost all will do 16/44.1. |