Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young says that he speak to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs about offer up higher - quality digital medicine downloads , but that since Jobs ’s death , discussion with Apple on the matter has ceased .
Speaking at theD : Dive Into Media league , Young arrogate that modern digital music format are so highly compress that 95 percent of the audio content is confound off . ( This is a highly debatable title , but suffice it to say that Young is n’t happy that most music today is sold in a lossy , relatively abject - bit - pace format . )
Young does n’t have a company to plug or a solution to the job . In fact , he turned to the largely well - heeled consultation at the group discussion as said he need “ a plentiful guy , someone out there ” to lead the boot for right music quality . But he did say he had been talking to one particular plenteous cat : Steve Jobs .
Neil Young (right) talks to Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg at the D: Dive Into Media conference. (Photo courtesy of AllThingsD)
“ I was talking to Steve about it , ” Young said . “ We were working on it . ” When asked by conference co - host Walt Mossberg of theWall Street Journalwhat was happening with that now , Young suggest that no give-and-take were on-going .
“ Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital euphony , and his bequest is terrific , ” Young say . “ But when he went home , he listened to vinyl . And you ’ve got ta believe that if he ’d lived long enough , he would have finally done what I ’m trying to do . ”
Neil Young ( veracious ) dialogue to Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg at the five hundred : Dive Into Media conference . ( Photo good manners of AllThingsD )
Young likened speaker system and phone to “ the back end of the domestic ass , ” suggesting that the problem with medicine timber is not in the output method , but in the lower - quality input formats .
“ The ears are the windowpane to the someone , ” Young said . “ You feel what you get a line . When you take out 95 percent of the nutritionary time value , you feel it … . Music is smashing . rent the masses have 100 percent , or 99 percent . worry audio ! ”
Young said that other high - resolution formats , such as Super Audio CD and DVD Audio , failed because of poor marketing and commercial enterprise decisions . He cited Sony ’s control over the SACD formatting and the focal point on multichannel audio for DVD - Audio .
“ The adult female of the planetary house does n’t want five boxes out there , ” Young said . “ They ’ve should ’ve made DVD Audio a two-channel matter , but they [ did n’t , and they ] failed . ”
