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May. 7th, 2003 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbMSNBC says up with the iTunes Music Store, down with AAC:
Last night I ran into an old coworker from Liquid Audio--where we tried to sell downloadable AAC tracks back in the 1000s--who asked if all the IMS news was giving me painful flashbacks, too. It is.
But I wish Apple well. They seem at least to have made some headway with the labels. Prices are lower (if not low enough), copy protection is more reasonable (not saying much). Maybe it'll work out this time.
The AAC cuts had a complete lack of air around the singer and instruments in the band. The sound quality was somewhat dynamic, but dull sounding. When I compared the downloaded songs to the real CD it was no contest. The uncompressed CD .AIFF files sounded much, much, much better.
This might not matter to most people, but consider this: The Wallflowers CD cost me $11.99 when I bought it. I can make as many legal copies as I like for my personal use — and those copies all sound great and play on any device I can think of. I can also rip the songs onto my MP3 players and the iPod. The Wallflowers download from iTunes cost me $9.99, is limited in where I can play and store it — and the sound is inferior.
Last night I ran into an old coworker from Liquid Audio--where we tried to sell downloadable AAC tracks back in the 1000s--who asked if all the IMS news was giving me painful flashbacks, too. It is.
But I wish Apple well. They seem at least to have made some headway with the labels. Prices are lower (if not low enough), copy protection is more reasonable (not saying much). Maybe it'll work out this time.
