Neil Young’s plan to make digital music sound 20 times better
Neil Young explains his push for the music and tech industries to develop a new lossless audio format and a new type of iPod-like device to play it. He also addresses the lack of danger from piracy and talks about the late Steve Jobs. Quotes and full embedded video.
There is no doubt that the move from vinyl to CD and now MP3 has compressed and degraded the quality of music we listen to on a daily basis. Neil Young is hoping to change this. In an interview at the D: Dive Into Media conference yesterday, Young was quite vocal and realistic about where the music industry is and where he’d like it to go. The singer/songwriter claims that MP3s only offer about 5 percent of the true sound bands and artists like him make when recording in the studio. CDs aren’t much better either, as he claims they only reproduce about 15 percent of the true sound of a record.
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Good luck Mr. Neil Young, I can wait to be amazed by your awesome invention. Probably my hearing won’t go as far as past CD quality, but I know that a lot of people will be happy.
In Europe and Asia we no longer fight piracy, because we understand it now. We make music for people and they are still coming to our concerts.
Is not that bad is just different.
Good luck Mr. Neil Young,
rock our dreams like you rock our hearts!