Hello, Goodbye: The surviving Beatles aren't exactly digital front-runners, but better years late than never. On Wednesday, iTunes started offering a selection of Beatles ringtones for $1.29, the same price as a full-length song. Of course, ringtones are well past their prime, but actually still worth billions.
Sales of Adele's 21 surged nearly 500,000 units last week, thanks largely to the Grammys clean-up. According to Nielsen Soundscan, recent-week sales of the album topped an impressive 730,000 units in the US alone. Separately, the Brit Awards issued an apology for cutting an Adele acceptance speech short, a move that provoked a bird-flip from the singer and jeers from the crowd.
The Orchard has tapped ADA cofounder Michael Black as SVP of its Client & Sales Group. Separately, the company is also looking for a retail marketing manager for North America (more on our Job Board).
Eventbrite has now sold 50 million tickets, a nice milestone that includes everything user-generated bake sale tickets to major music events. Ticketmaster currently shifts more than double that in a year, by comparison, though Eventbrite is a well-financed, fast-growing upstart.
Rdio has expanded into Spain and Portugal, a move that puts its global footprint at 8 countries.
Playing SXSW? Then you'll probably get a great review. According to a raft of stats shared by Musicmetric, more than half of SXSW shows got 'very positive' reviews, with more than 75 percent getting glowing press.
Sorta seems like SOPA, but across the pond. The European Commission has now suspended ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, based on a howl of online protests. ACTA is now being bumped up to the European High Court to determine whether it violates EU statutes.
Also on the iTunes front, a number of Universal Music Group artists have remastered their collections for the iTunes Store. Madonna, Paul McCartney, Kaori Muraji, U2, John Coltrane and Bon Jovi are all upgrading as part of the Mastered for iTunes initiative, perhaps part of a long, steady climb towards fidelity nirvana.
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Krazy Kiwi Thursday, February 23, 2012
"Remastering for iTunes" is what, exactly? There's still the 256kbps limit, so there's no resolution quality improvement. I would love to be told there's a real improvement happening here, but remastering for iTunes reminds me of "fine Corinthian leather" for some reason. I want my Ricardo Montalban!
bart Thursday, February 23, 2012
Hey, if you master something you know will be compressed, than that master will sound better than a master that was prepared to other format. Duuuhh...
Christian Thursday, February 23, 2012
Bart - not sure this is really a "Duhh" moment. Is this common knowledge? With Grammar skills like yours perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to accuse... just sayin. You've gotta be what... at least a second quarter audio student? Duhh....
Cliff Baldwin Thursday, February 23, 2012
No one on this board can tell the difference between the current implementation of 256K AAC and an uncompressed CD master in a double-blind test. That's a fact. Asking for lossless in a world where bandwidth, battery life and storage still matter is like saying that everyone needs to watch movies from the original master file and that Blu-Ray and HD isn't good enough. Ridiculous. Enjoy the music. It sounds damn good.
Visitor Friday, February 24, 2012
Maybe that means the mastering engineer pre-ruins the audio fidelity before it gets to iTunes.
Although I bet iTunes will still re-ruin further.
- Versus
mdti Thursday, February 23, 2012
You can import an mp3 in your daw, which will convert it to a wave, and re-equalize it and normalize it and export the mp3.
You can also take the master wave file and rework on it for the mp3 to sound better and louder than only "exporting" the original master to mp3 (which make you loose DB in addition to frequencies).So its a game of a few try/export/listen to the result. after a while , you know exactly which frequencies to boost and what gain correction to use for the mp3 to become a master in itself.
By re-eaqualizing for the mp3 format, you get a better sound than without doing this.
I do this since the real-audio era, ie, even before mp3.
@hustledjs Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wake up and get to the money...
Krazy Kiwi Thursday, February 23, 2012
Thanks for the explanations. Much appreciated. :)
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