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Re: [ARSCLIST] The "dumbing down" of Downloaded Recordings
I agree with Roger on this subject. I think that the record companies
are in a transition phase. Maybe they finally decided that suing
their customers wasn't such a wise business move. In regards to the
poor quality that downloaded music offers, I think that this
distribution model is still in it's infancy and is slowly improving
as technology has allowed it. Off the top of my head, iTunes only
been around as a download source for a few years now? When it first
started to sell music, it was only available as Mp3 or AACs. Then
some of the downloads were available in Apple lossless. The fact that
most folks migrated from dial up to DSL in the last couple of years
would have made large files impractical before that. Apple's recent
announcement that iTunes would begin offering HD movies with DTS 5.1
sound in March should be evidence that there is no lack of bandwidth
to stream any audio format currently in use. Maybe it's just wishful
thinking, but I think that it won't be that long before iTunes makes
it's next improvement in sound quality options. I just hope that they
start with the "live" orchestral concerts.
Steve
On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/12/27/special-
report-the-death-of-high-fidelity-in-the-age-of-mp3s-sound-quality-
is-worse-than-ever/
I see there are currently twenty posts in this topic.I do not
download music from the web,except for a few well transferred 78
rarities from members of the Google classical group,and probably
never will.I do stream,though.As I said to Tom offlist,there is a
great variance in the quality of one stream to another,just as
there is among the sound of one radio station to another.
What a lot of people do not seem to realize,is I believe we are in
the transitionary phase of a dramatic paradigm shift in the way
recorded music is sold,and distributed.Basically the end of all
physical formats of recorded music, as a whole. Yes there will
still be new vinyl and CDs pressed,but they will be limited edition
runs sold on eBay,Amazon,or label/artist websites.That will be
it,period.The other option will be CD-Rs burned on demand,like
Smithsonian/Folkways offers. The retail store selling new vinyl/CDs
will go the way of Betamax in the next few years,"collectors"
stores aside.