I'm interested in the Amazon quality problem. Here's why: I use iTunes Match which for <$30/yr stores all your music in their cloud. BUT they also "match" the music if they can, and if so, gives you a higher quality version. Indeed a standard trick is to delete the mp3, then download it from iTunes Match, which gives you the higher version. Alas, no choice in format, its AAC.
For Apple users, Amazon even has an option to auto load its download into iTunes, thus automatically converting to high quality AAC. I buy most of my music from Amazon in digital format, thus get their mp3 and it auto-converts to AAC. This is all in Apple's interest: they store one copy, the AAC they get from the music industry, and "share" it with all users of that album/song, vastly reducing their storage requirements. It would be interesting to see, in fact, if the Apple AAC is really of higher quality than the Amazon mp3. -- Owen On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, we'll all have to start our music collection all over again. > First we collected vinyl, then 8-track, then cassette, then CDs, then > local files (MP3 for most but .ogg for me) and now cloud. > > The sad part is that the very folks who think that cloud is cool don't > have any idea of what they're missing. Most cloud MP3 files are lossy - I > was listening to Amazon Music's 50 Greatest Jazz songs playlist over the > weekend and noticed multiple occasions when the volume faded. That always > happened when a musician hit some really high notes whose harmonics get > clipped by the MP3 format. > > Ray Parks > Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager > V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 > > > > On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Yet another fascinating cultural/tech change: streaming music services > up, digital sales down. > > > http://www.iclarified.com/42136/ondemand-music-streaming-up-42-over-last-year-digital-track-sales-down-13 > > I guess this has a lot to do with great phone apps for streaming > music, so owning music must seem like a thing of the past for a certain > segment. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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