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Hmm...would be interesting to see the demographics for the iTunes store. That many 50 and 60 year olds use it? That surprises me. I figured their customers were mostly in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s, and they know how to rip CDs. I mean, there are fewer steps involved w/ ripping a CD in iTunes than buying one, about 2 or 3 fewer in fact.

It's all very well for us, handful of computer-literate types that we are to think that, but really, not many people can work computers that well (at least where I come from). Sure, a lot of people can operate MS Office to a more or less perfunctory level, but if I mention Firefox or BitTorrent or Slsk to most people I know, I'd be met with some rather blank looks. I think iTunes will sell lots of Beatles things.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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128 AAC's of the Eno & Can remasters sound different than 320 mp3's of the original issues. They're different recordings. What remastering adds is not comparable to what file compression subtracts.

Also for the piddly record I hate AAC artifacts much more than mp3 artifacts -- mp3 noise is like a layer of fizz you can kind of screen out but AAC's really screw with the sound, redistributing the frequency balance of the sound. Maybe it sounds all right for some pop but with a lot of experimental music ripping to AAC can constitute an outright remix.

Has anyone sat down with the 5.1 surround version of Love yet?

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

One of these days, I will.

I have the disc and some of the technology.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Believe it or not, you can actually buy whole albums on iTunes, too.

But they don't have album covers. And concept albums with no pause between tracks skip.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

iTunes 7.0 finally fixed that, we now have gapless segueways and album covers

point taken though, it's not the same

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

iTunes 7.0 finally fixed that

They did? Good news, and I hope Nero incorporate the same technology. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone sat down with the 5.1 surround version of Love yet?

i recommend listening to it at full blast in a las vegas arena while gymnasts, roller skaters, trapeze artists and trampolinists do amazing feats in front of you. really!

(really!!!)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Geir, Toast also burns gapless (DAO) discs.

I found this rofltastic quote from that wiki link upthread:

George Harrison rejected it because, according to McCartney, "he didn't like avant garde music."

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

it's really weird that that track never leaked when pretty much everyting else that wound up on anthology leaked in the 80's somehow

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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