[SurroundSound] Re: new Mastered for iTunes section

I read the stuff on these link and consider most of it as bullshit.
It's still compressed crap generally. With the best on offer being CD
quality compressed in a new way.
The most worrying thing is music producers and engineers being led by
the nose by Apple, just because they have cornered the distribution
market.
Non of the criteria being used really relates to what is best for the
music reproduction.
Not only is Apple nose ringing the music industry, but so is the mass
of the population on the planet, those sleepy sheep that can't hear
the difference between a MP3 and a lowly compressed to hell CD, let
alone have any idea about what real lossless music on SACD, DVD-A or
vinyl can sound like.
We are doomed by these lemming to a future of lossless music mass
suicide and the best we can hope for is whatever the lowest common
denominator of the day is, currently MP3.

On Feb 24, 10:13 pm, "Noreltny-gmail" <norel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree! And to make their download products more appealing, include high
> quality artwork and a PDF of the same sort of information normally included
> with a CD booklet, like liner notes. Since you're not limited by the ~ 5" x
> 5" size of the plastic jewel case,  use standard letter size as the sheet
> size for the PDF, which will provide space for a lot of interesting
> information about how the album was made, biographies of the artists, etc.
> And the album art should be a high enough quality, so when printed at your
> local color printer (or if you have your own good quality inkjet), you get
> very nice looking prints. Then, paying  US $15 for a lossless (CD quality)
> album might be more attractive. For music that is popular with teenagers,
> maybe they should consider selling a downloadable digital copy of
> artist/album posters, which could also be printed at local business who have
> large format color printing services.
>
> Plus, they could start offering higher resolution versions and surround
> versions.
>
> If only we were in charge!!
>
> From: surroundsound@googlegroups.com [mailto:surroundsound@googlegroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Stephen Disney
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:34 PM
> To: surroundsound@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [SurroundSound] Re: new Mastered for iTunes section
>
> All this trouble CAUSED by Apple...  why not just offer an ALAC download
> option... or God forbid, FLAC.
> S
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Ray Shackleford <mos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/mastered-for-itunes-how-aud...
> neers-tweak-tunes-for-the-ipod-age.ars
>
> Slightly more info here.
>
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