Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Will iTunes sell lossless music?

This is a promising article from CNN: Apple in talks to improve sound quality of music downloads.

Apple and other digital music retailers are in discussions with record labels to improve the quality of the song files they sell, executives involved in the talks say.

As a result, online music stores could eventually offer songs that sound truer to their original recordings, perhaps at a premium price.

For example iTunes could offer an audio format in 24bit. iTunes and Macs can play Apple Lossless in 24bit, but the portable devices can't (yet). I also believe the Apple Airport Express downgrade the music from 24bit to 16bit, as mentioned on the Apple discussion forum.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Radiohead – The King of Limbs

A new Radiohead album! This saturday! Well that's a pleasant surprise.

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Not much is known about the new album, but you can preorder it in WAV format here: http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/