[James Tanner]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-trademarks-new-audio-format-20120403

[Haemus]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-trademarks-new-audio-format-20120403

mp3 is certainly an atrocity even for ears struggling to cope with 12kHz due to age; flac is fine, MLP as well, hopefully we would not have to witness umptieth lossless format peddled by marketing. Could lossless be any better?

[sfraser]

If I have some time this weekend, I will dig into his copyright filings and see what they are all about. I will report back on the specifics regarding sample size and bit rate etc.

Cheers,

[Cheeseboy]

Sounds like an idea whoes time has come.  Rock hard Mr Young!  Steve Jobs always had a great 2 channel rig.  I'm always amazed that he could sell out to MP3 so easily.  But then again he sold alot of downloads and iPods.

[CSI]

I was struck by the following quote from the article,

"It's not that digital is bad or inferior. It's that the way it's being used is not sufficient to transfer the depth of the art."

That could apply to a lot of the furious vinyl vs. digital debate.

[newzooreview]

I was struck by the following quote from the article,

"It's not that digital is bad or inferior. It's that the way it's being used is not sufficient to transfer the depth of the art."

That could apply to a lot of the furious vinyl vs. digital debate.

Judging from that, it sounds as if he's planning no just a new file format but an underlying certification that the file has met certain standards for recording, mixing, and mastering. That makes more sense than strictly an alternative to AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless, or FLAC as storage formats. Will be interesting to see if he gets traction and what the full specification is.

[JRace]

Just what we need. Another format that does the same thing the current formats do, only more commercialized.

We can already do 192/24/5.1 with the FLAC container. All we need is more content.

[Rclark]

Not this time. With everything he's been saying, for well over a decade or more on this issue, you could almost say he has a fanatical drive to get this right.

[JRace]

Not this time. With everything he's been saying, for well over a decade or more on this issue, you could almost say he has a fanatical drive to get this right.

It has been right for years.
All that is missing is more content in the right format, not another format.

Whats wrong with hi res flac?
Its free and has no drm ( to me that is what makes it great, but not to those who want to make massive profit from it).

[sfraser]

It has been right for years.
All that is missing is more content in the right format, not another format.

Whats wrong with hi res flac?
Its free and has no drm ( to me that is what makes it great, but not to those who want to make massive profit from it).

Nothing, but lets see what Neil is up to. Maybe he is planning things we have not thought of. Neil thinks outside the box, maybe he will turn the industry on it's ear. (no pun intended).

[SoundGame]

It has been right for years.
All that is missing is more content in the right format, not another format.


Whats wrong with hi res flac?
Its free and has no drm ( to me that is what makes it great, but not to those who want to make massive profit from it).

There is still an active debate about the performance of lossless compressed formats, such as FLAC and ALAC vs uncompresssed lossless such as WAV.  With the latter being purported to provide better performance.  Perhaps is on to something that will fuel up the debate.