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Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It
Neil Young is right: Those songs on your iPhone do sound like crap, and it's time we demand better-sounding alternatives for our digital music. Here we explain exactly what's wrong with the MP3, and provide options for much higher-quality digital music formats.
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Neil Young Wants Digital Music to Die
Death to the MP3. Long live vinyl, said rock icon Neil Young, speaking at an industry conference on Tuesday.
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MP3 Monday: Ben Hackett
Greetings! This week's MP3 Monday comes from local singer/songwriter Ben Hackett, who's about to release his second album in more than 15 years of performing.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Can an MP3 sound better than a Blu-ray?
High-resolution formats define the upper limit of quality, but if the recording's mix was overcompressed and processed, a lossless file won't sound great.
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MP3 Roundup: New music from Memoryhouse, War and Wild Nothing
With glistening slow-motion '80s synths accompanied by some softly-focused crooning from Denise Nouvion, the new Memoryhouse single sounds like a Kathleen Edwards contribution to the Drive soundtrack.
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MP3 Roundup: New music from Daniel Rossen (of Grizzly Bear), CFCF, First Person Shootr, and Bowerbirds
We've already gotten a taste of Daniel Rossen's forthcoming solo EP with the beautiful, melancholic “Saint Nothing.” On “Silent Song,” the Grizzly Bear/Department of Eagles member gets off the piano bench, picks up his 12-string guitar, and actually kind of rocks out.
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Media : MP3: Cuff the Duke is “Smothered in Hugs” (Guided by Voices Cover) (FILTER Premiere)
Cuff the Duke reigns from Oshawa, Ontario and are Toronto-based, bringing alt-country to the masses via Paper Bag Records. The band is preparing for their fifth album release Morning Comes out February 28 (via Paper Bag Records), and has teamed up with us at FILTER to present a collection of covers found in their EP In Our Time . Each week we'll be premiering one track off the EP in anticipation ...
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Media : MP3: Now, Now Sees the “Shifting” + Announces Tour News
This week, Minneapolis-based Now, Now released their Dead Oaks Digital EP via iTunes , featuring the new unreleased B-side "Shifting . " Stream the track below, courtesy of Trans- Records . The digital EP is a great introduction to the trio, laying out all the cards on what the band can offer, one dimension being sublte bone-chilling dark indie-pop as found in the b-side tune. Available on ...
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Neil Young's plan to make digital music sound 20 times better
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 ...
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SC Johnson Introduces New Radio Technology to Remote Rwanda Communities
RACINE, Wis., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SC Johnson has distributed 225 MP3-enabled Lifeplayer radios to remote farm communities in northern Rwanda. SC Johnson is the first to use this new technology ...
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