On 02/24/2011 12:59 PM, Mark-T wrote:
On Feb 22, band beyond
wrote:
some in the music
industry are rethinking their reliance on 16-bit quality for music
downloads, and Apple's reportedly looking into upgrading their
entire sales stream to 24-bit
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web.../24.bit.music/
As a result, online music stores could eventually offer songs
that sound truer to their original recordings, perhaps at a
premium price.
Professional music producers generally capture studio
recordings in a 24-bit, high-fidelity audio format.
Before the originals, or "masters" in industry parlance,
are pressed onto CDs or distributed to digital sellers
like Apple's iTunes, they're downgraded to 16-bit files.
If the master is the original, then what does
"re-mastered" mean, as commonly used?
A genuine original copy?
Back in the days of vinyl, the "master disk" was a record made of metal
(aluminum? steel?), mixed from the original tapes. From this, the
record company would make molds for the actual disks that were sold.
If the tapes were saved, then you could digitize and clean up each track
individually, then re-mix a new, digital master.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remaster
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