[SurroundSound] Re: new Mastered for iTunes section

I did read some of the links off the story provided and one thing that
is a positive in the process is the engineer they spoke to is actually
listening to his work and trying to get the remastered material to
sound it's best in the constrictions of the format used. That is
really the issue in all this. While a 96-24 resolution is perferred
listening on a good system, on a bad system it might be more fruitful
to tailor the sound to the system it will be listened to on or played
back on which was done frequently with vinyl, tape and early cd's.
More often than not recently the music comes out of the box and was
never heard by humans as a finished product until it reached your
player at maximum digital zero. GRRRRR

While I tend to agree there are many people who hook their iPod to the
big system, I would not call a iPod in any sense a high end detailed
audio reproducer. But a hats off to anyone who choose to care about
doing the work and putting forth a professional effort to make it
sound the best it can on a lower end system,

On Feb 29, 4:30 am, ROBERT COOGAN <bobcoo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes sorry, I wonder how Apple are "encouraging" the remastering?
>
> Perhaps they are offering to showcase the remastered content (or free
> hosting) and this would appeal to the labels.
>
> They did offer Beatles remasters on USB at 20/44.1 so they must have some
> appreciation of (slightly) higher quality formats, and anticipate some
> punters would be interested.
>
> As the article states, Neil Young has been famously critical of CD (an
> anonymous wall of digital sound),  his discussions with Steve Jobs would
> have been regarding higher res formats than 16/44.1
>
> We'll have to wait and see if Mr Jobs put any plans in place regarding this
> format before his unfortunate departure.
>
> HDTRACKS is a fairly well-known audiophile resource which may have provided
> some inspiration to Apple.
>
> Does anyone know if they are profitable, or whether most of their content
> simply ends up on "free" file sharing websites?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: citysoundman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 5:54 AM
> To: SurroundSound
> Subject: [SurroundSound] Re: new Mastered for iTunes section
>
> Robert -
> As for the 24/96 thing, from what I can tell this is the deal - Apple
> has released a guideline for songs that are to be submitted for sale
> as Mastered For iTunes tracks. They recommend encoding from masters
> that are mastered as 24-bit/96 KHz files, which is fairly common for
> songs that are professionally mastered. But I think the guideline says
> anything is acceptable as long as it has a minimum of CD quality (16
> bit/44.1 KHz). Apple definitely is not paying for anything to be newly
> mastered. They are just printing what they call 'best practices' for
> people to follow. What appears to be new here is Apple's Sample Rate
> Conversion step, which is the first part of encoding the file to AAC.
> The end result is STILL a compressed AAC 256 kbps file. But my guess
> is the new process will sound a bit better than the older AAC 256
> because of this new SRC algorithm.
>
> Until Apple supports delivery of uncompressed audio we will never hear
> the music as intended by the artist, and that is a real shame.
>
> citysoundman
>
> On Feb 28, 5:10 pm, ROBERT COOGAN <bobcoo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Looks to me that this means Apple will be paying for thousands of Albums
> > to be remastered in 24/96 which would not be otherwise, which can't be a
> > bad thing.
>
> > I'm not an iTunes subscriber so I won't be paying for it.
>
> > Presumably other download sites will start to upgrade their content also,
> > so what is the downside?
>
> > This is presumably part of the "digital revolution" we have been waiting
> > for.
>
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