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The Beatles Reach 5 Million Songs, 1 Million Albums Sold on iTunes
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I'm very happy to see the albums doing well. It took them long enough for them to be available digitally and I'm sure the surviving members and their families are happy with the results. 
For myself I have the stereo boxset and ripped it via Lossless, so I will not be buying the iTunes set, although I am envious of the iTunes LP files... However yesterday I received an email about the 'LOVE' album being released on iTunes with 2 bonus tracks. The bonus tracks will make me buy the album along with the iTunes LP extras. I already have the album on CD/DVD and although the bonus tracks won't be lossless their exclusivity will force me to buy them without a care for their "not the best" audio quality. I recently saw the show in Vegas and loved it, so listening to the unreleased Love mixes of "Fool on the hill" and "Girl" would be nice to hear.
I hope that they continue to release more Beatles content on the iTunes store. Maybe we'll see of the films, in the promo video on the iTunes store Magical Mystery Tour and even Let It Be looked beautifuly cleaned up. I know Apple corps has restored the films for a while now, but, I'd love to see those restored versions see the light of day - nice and cleaned up and not-cropped. Even if it's only on iTunes, but I'd love a Blu-Ray of course.
For myself I have the stereo boxset and ripped it via Lossless, so I will not be buying the iTunes set, although I am envious of the iTunes LP files... However yesterday I received an email about the 'LOVE' album being released on iTunes with 2 bonus tracks. The bonus tracks will make me buy the album along with the iTunes LP extras. I already have the album on CD/DVD and although the bonus tracks won't be lossless their exclusivity will force me to buy them without a care for their "not the best" audio quality. I recently saw the show in Vegas and loved it, so listening to the unreleased Love mixes of "Fool on the hill" and "Girl" would be nice to hear.
I hope that they continue to release more Beatles content on the iTunes store. Maybe we'll see of the films, in the promo video on the iTunes store Magical Mystery Tour and even Let It Be looked beautifuly cleaned up. I know Apple corps has restored the films for a while now, but, I'd love to see those restored versions see the light of day - nice and cleaned up and not-cropped. Even if it's only on iTunes, but I'd love a Blu-Ray of course.
Definitely, I believe the shortest Beatles' album is Sgt. Pepper's at 13, and the average closer to 15, so this is likely at least 20 million songs if counted individually.
Bingo, who remembers the c*** music of 300 years ago? Anyone who saw the film Amadeus knows how tormented Salieri was to see Mozart's music become more and more popular while his faded out.
There is still good/great music being created today, and no one will recall Justin Beiber in 200 years except historians.
i think this is very impressive, considering that most older people don't buy songs off itunes. or at least that's what i thought
Yeah, but...
The bitrate sucks! The music is flat and un-dynamic. Ripping songs off the web doesn't compare to either ripping direct from CD, or in my case, from the Beatles USB. These are direct from the analog masters and then transferred to FLAC.
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is an audio compression codec primarily authored by Josh Coalson. FLAC employs a lossless data compression algorithm. A digital audio recording compressed by FLAC can be decompressed into an identical copy of the original audio data. Audio sources encoded to FLAC are typically reduced to 50–60% of their original size.
These recordings are about as dynamic as can be. Much better than CD quality. When I listen to "I Saw Her Standing There", it's like having the Beatles in the room with you playing live!
If you think your ripped versions compare to my FLAC versions, you either don't know or don't care about quality sound!
Admittedly the files are humongous in size, but that's why I bought a 32gb iPhone. To hold my precious Beatles library!!!
Ha! That's how I got my Beatles albums
The bitrate sucks! The music is flat and un-dynamic. Ripping songs off the web doesn't compare to either ripping direct from CD, or in my case, from the Beatles USB. These are direct from the analog masters and then transferred to FLAC.
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is an audio compression codec primarily authored by Josh Coalson. FLAC employs a lossless data compression algorithm. A digital audio recording compressed by FLAC can be decompressed into an identical copy of the original audio data. Audio sources encoded to FLAC are typically reduced to 50–60% of their original size.
These recordings are about as dynamic as can be. Much better than CD quality. When I listen to "I Saw Her Standing There", it's like having the Beatles in the room with you playing live!
If you think your ripped versions compare to my FLAC versions, you either don't know or don't care about quality sound!
Admittedly the files are humongous in size, but that's why I bought a 32gb iPhone. To hold my precious Beatles library!!!
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Bingo, who remembers the c*** music of 300 years ago? Anyone who saw the film Amadeus knows how tormented Salieri was to see Mozart's music become more and more popular while his faded out.
There is still good/great music being created today, and no one will recall Justin Beiber in 200 years except historians.
I have doctorate in music performance and a master's in musicology. Popular music is just an optional course. Perhaps, the teacher is going to talk about the Beatles, two hours at the most for the whole semester.
In 200 years, musicologists will be talking about Ligeti, Boulez, Stockhausen...etc. They will be still talking about Bach, Mozart, Beethoven...etc There will be doctoral dissertations about their music. And (perhaps), they still will talk 2 hours at most about the Beatles.
Yes, they won't be talking about Justin Beiber. If they do, it means I failed my doctorate.
There are fools who compare Bach to the Beatles. If they can't play Bach or understand it, they shouldn't even talk about music. I still laugh about it
. Anyone who has played some of his master works, will understand why Bach is so great. We could say the same about other great composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinski, Wagner...etc.