Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music — New York Times

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9 hours ago, TubeLover said:

 

 

And he is dead right to rail against Steve Jobs and Apple. They are to blame for the near absolute deterioration of the quality of available, recorded music. First for the ultimate evil that is iTunes, selling a generation of young listeners garbage audio quality music to make it fit into the pathetic storage capacity of their iPods. After all, profit is all that matters! They have further damaged the creation of music, globally, by creating a situation where the ADD addled generation  just buy any singles they want, forget any thought of purchasing an actual "album". The album being the key format that endless bands have slaved over, for five or more  decades. Their entire creative output has been intended to be listened to as a group of songs that make up an "album".

 

JC 

All of that damage was done by  Napster, et. al. before iTunes came along. The public didn't want' to pay $10 or more for a CD when they actually only wanted one or at most a few songs on the CD. Illegal downloading of 128k mp3's supplied the public with what it wanted. Albums? Before the late 60's, the music market had been a singles market. This was true for all forms of popular music, including Jazz, as until the LP, 78's ruled. Even when the LP arrived it took about 15 years for it to become as important as singles in the marketplace. So, since the 90's the pendulum just swung back to what had been before - from the 20's thru the 60's. And people got used to 128k mp3's on portable audio and on laptop/computer speaker audio as the standard for music listening.

Apple just figured out how to monetize what already existed on the black market. 

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38 minutes ago, wgscott said:

256 kbps ACC, but don't let mere facts interfere with a good rant.

Not when they started. That was an upgrade.

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6 hours ago, wgscott said:

 

Only when exerting mind-control over Fidel Castro's crocodiles.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49418726

 

 

6 hours ago, wgscott said:

That reminds me...  Did the Nazis use lossy compression when they live-streamed their attack on Pearl Harbor?

Yes, that's why all those WWII films are in black and white.....
It's too bad the technology didn't exist, or we could have video of the airports during the American Independence War, as a certain President alluded to...

 

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Just mention the Grateful Dead in a positive way, and Bill will be happy...