Neil Young, a big proponent for better sounding music formats, says that Steve Jobs agreed with him and they talked of developing such a format for iTunes. He also said that when Jobs was at home he preferred to listen to vinyl records.
Young talked about this at a technology conference in California on Tuesday. He said the format would be lossless, containing 100% of the original data, instead the poor sampling rate of an mp3. It would mean far fewer songs on a portable device and the download would take a long time. The reward would be a much richer music listening experience.
The Wall Street Journal's tech writer Walt Mossberg confirmed Young's comments. He said that Jobs was surprised "that people traded quality, to the extent they had, for convenience or price".
Here's the story from the Huffington Post, Neil Young: Steve Jobs Listened To Vinyl.
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