[MLA] Apple Music horror story

[Bob Katz]

Guys:


It's a good thing I buy my music either on CD or from HD tracks or 
similar vendors. I only buy the AAC from the iTunes store when one of my 
clients wants me to reference a CD that I don't have and I have to 
listen to it "now". If then I like that music, then I go out and buy it, 
usually on CD. Amazon has become my major vendor, I pity the brick and 
mortar stores, though Best Buy seems to be hanging on, they don't have 
the CD collection I can get online from Amazon. I can then transfer the 
CD into iTunes and use on my iPhone if I like.

For my highest-sonic-quality personal entertainment on my iPhone I use 
an incredible app called HFPlayer from Onkyo..... in conjunction with an 
Oppo DAC that connects via Lightning directly to the iPhone and plays 
any high res. flac files I have on the iPhone up to 384 kHz/24 bit (and 
also plays DSD directly into the ESS Sabre DAC in the Oppo DAC).... It 
beats the crap out of the Astel and Kearn stuff that is so unreliable 
and uber-expensive.

Bob L., I tried the Astel and Kearn player and got it to crash in 15 
minutes, three times before I called it flakey. And their communication 
with their dealers and reps is exremely shakey. I do not like this 
company. If they wanted to make a dependable music player, why did they 
pick the Android operating system?

Also, sorry, Neil Young, this Oppo/iPhone combination beats the Pono 
because I can also take phone calls  :-(. If I'm jogging or don't want 
to carry the DAC, the HF Player will downsample the high res material so 
it will work out of the iPhone's regular headphone jack.

Tip: the Oppo PM-3 headphones are killers! Maybe the most accurate and 
impacting headphones you can get and carry with you to play music.

If you want to salivate about the best portable playback on earth, in my 
opinion, read my review of the Oppo pieces and the HF plyaer: visit 
http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/katzs-corner-episode-11-oppo-explosion#RiXt3ToxveQ4BMf5.97 
These PM-3 headphones have bass that goes down to the center of the 
earth, are extremely accurate and tonally neutral....  With a little of 
the 64-bit EQ in the HF-player you can get even more accurate 
playback.... and the Oppo DAC/headphone amp is clean and punchy and 
open....

I have tons of high res flacs that fit in a 64 GB iPhone. If Apple lost 
for me the purchased AAC music that I have from the iTunes store I'd be 
pissed, but not that pissed because I just don't have that much money 
invested in AAC material I bought from the iTunes store. It seems to me 
that music must be in the iPhone backup that's on my Mac, though, isn't 
it????  I'm only semi-attached to the cloud. I use icloud for Notes, 
Calendar, etc., but not for music (I think). I share my iTunes library 
with a few OSX computers.... maybe that's through iCloud?  Yuk....


Bob K.


On 5/7/16 2:39 PM, Thomas Lund wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> This casual treatment of tracks fits with what I'm seeing in iTunes. 
> One has to actively disable cloud replacement time after time so 
> iTunes doesn’t steal your known-good tracks. From Tidal I’ve heard how 
> record companies require them to carry only the newest (crappiest) 
> version of a track, and make sure originals aren’t available.
>
> Compared to such demolishment, I’m afraid MQA is a sheer marketing 
> detail which is bound to disappoint consumers just like the myriad of 
> previous attempts at promising “hidef". 24 bit, 16 bit, 14 bit, 12 bit 
> resolution: Doesn’t matter. Dither or not: Doesn’t matter. Sample rate 
> DSD, 192k, 96, 48, 44.1k: Doesn’t matter. Lossless, 320k, 256k, 128k: 
> Doesn’t matter. The version of a track/squashing is what generally 
> matters.
>
> cheers,
> Thomas
>
>
>> On 07/05/2016, at 00.20, Robert Ludwig <gatewaybob at mac.com 
>> <mailto:gatewaybob at mac.com>> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/05/apple-music-isnt-deleting-music-libraries.html
>>
>> I think this article explains it pretty well.  It isn’t as horrible 
>> as the blog describes, but it is still taking _way_ too much control 
>> for me to ever want to use their service.
>>
>> BTW, Tidal has 300 albums with MQA so with an MQA converter you can 
>> hear streaming 96kHz or even 352.8kHz music!
>> MQA is really revolutionary.
>>
>> Best,
>> Bob L.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/6/16 5:01 PM, Grimm | Eelco wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> If this story is true it is unimaginably horrific.
>>
>> https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me it is not true?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eelco
>>
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