[silence] John Cage on iTunes

[Andrew Farrell]

Itunes sound quality is not the best, definitely.  I haave committed myself to the digital revolution completely when it comes to music and I use Itunes as a last resort.  A site that I patronize much more is mp3stor.com.  I haven't actually searched for Cage on there and I can't search it now because of my office' firewall but I bet they have a lot.  I actually recall seeing one of Steffan Schleiermacher's recordings on there.  mp3stor is great because they charge  by kbps.  An example; Last night I purchased Optometry by DJ Spooky (highly suggested if you like a little musique concrete in your jazz).  They offer 2 versions of the album for download.  One is at 190 kbps (CD quality) that cost $2.50, another version 250 kbps for $3.50.  When I play stuff I get from mp3stor next to an Itunes purchase the difference is quite obvious.  And by the way, the price I quoted was not wrong.  Albums cost an average of $1.70-$2.00, not the 10 bucks at ITunes.  They also don't do lame stuff like make one track on an album available only if you purchase the whole album.  AND no DRM encryption!  I think I have spent a total of about $50 at mp3stor and probably purchased the equivalent of about 30 albums...no joke.  Avoid ITunes, it's a scam.  It is, for some stuff however, the only game in town.

-----Original Message-----
>From: greg davis <gregorytylerdavis@gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 6, 2006 1:54 PM
>To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: [silence] John Cage on iTunes
>
>i wish that itunes and others would offer options for quality.
>
>i really dont like 128 kbps mp4 / m4a files on itunes.
>i think they sound pretty lousy.
>id much rather have a cd. (in fact, i just ordered the arpaviva cage  
>cd and the 2 newer megadisc cage cds)
>
>i think the proliferation of mp3s and digitally compressed music has  
>compromised sound quality of music a lot.
>id love to see lossless media or uncompressed audio available for  
>downloading in more places.
>
>i imagine cage wouldve been pretty excited about the internet. (maybe  
>it was already in its public infancy around the time he died?)
>but maybe not as excited about so much recorded music floating around  
>on it.
>
>-greg
>
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Andrew Farrell
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NYC