Tag Archives: itunes
Ian Shepard Calls BS
Mastering engineer Ian Shepard does a null test1 on three versions I’m With You by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This was the album that had a specific master for iTunes. Go to the link for the Youtube video. Since … Continue reading
“The degree of misinformation in this thread is pretty amazing”
James Johnston, who’s credentials are solid, on the Gearslutz forum about Mastered for iTunes, and then is later accused of being an Apple plant. There really is no doubt between AAC and MP3 using a good encoder for each. AAC … Continue reading
Windowing
Spotify exec Ken Parks with Forbes about windowing, when recording artists hold their releases from Spotify. My initial take is that it’s a very bad idea. Because it puts my service at a disadvantage. From a user standpoint, it’s a … Continue reading
Apple’s Mastered For iTunes Pages
Finally some explanation direct from the source: An ideal master will have 24-bit 96kHz resolution. These files contain more detail from which our encoders can create more accurate encodes. However, any resolution above 16-bit 44.1kHz, including sample rates of 48kHz, … Continue reading
“Mastered For iTunes” on iTunes
Mastered for iTunes means these albums have been specially tuned for higher fidelity sound on your computer, stereo, and all Apple devices. Browse a range of music across all genres below, and keep checking back as we add more music … Continue reading
iTunes Match Can’t Handle The Truth
User kudzurebel on Apple’s discussion forum sums up the iTunes Match problems pretty well: The big things that everyone is realizing aren’t being updated in the cloud libraries are “play counts”, “last played dates”, and artwork (I’m sure there are … Continue reading
Hitting the iTunes Match Limit After Signup
As long as they’re going to have limits that don’t really make sense they should give you a little counter or bar graph to let you know how close you are to that 25,000 limit.
iTunes Match Distrust
Check out this weird behavior. Sometimes iTunes just plows through music, updating the play counts with it. I’m accessing these on a non-primary Mac’s iTunes library with iTunes Match enabled. If I open some of these songs in Quicktime I … Continue reading
Entertainment Ecosystems
My brother’s girlfriend bought him an Apple TV for Christmas. He brought it over yesterday so I could try it. It was wonderful. Over the years he purchased a lot of TV Shows through iTunes, including The Wire and It’s … Continue reading
iTunes Match Play Counts and Last Played Dates Problem
From what I can tell they don’t work at all between iOS and Mac/PC, and between computers sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. iTunes Mach vs. Play Counts