Beatles and Apple settle dispute

Not true! A lot of the people who use iTunes are still boomers who barely know how to work the CD ripping device and/or don't know where to find an illegal p2p service, much more how to use one.

You can't imagine fifty-year-old women ripping Beatles CDs, putting them on their iTunes/iPod and then organizing them accordingly, can you? They don't usually have the time, much more the knowledge.

hahaha

This is true. I wonder though,in these remastered versions how much has been added/brought out/changed that isn't in the original lps?

Not a large number of people, but there will always be a small number of kids who have heard some Beatles stuff at school and liked it so much they want to have it on their iPod.

More like 20s and teens. Those of us who are older stick to albums rather than single tracks.

Daily Mirror front page story

And bookies last night predicted Beatles hits will occupy EVERY space in the Top 40 once they can be downloaded legally.

xpost - I was going to say, save at least one spot for Westlife or something.

Let's face it, we'll have "Get Back" in for one week at number 39 and that'll be it.

Next you'll be telling me people listen to them all the way through!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Light

you should actually go to vegas and see the show. it's great. really!

(really!!!)

What do you think about this, Nick?

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.

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?

I have the disc and some of the technology.

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

point taken though, it's not the same

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

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!!!)

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."