Mobile Fidelity will be issuing the Cowboy Junkies debut album – Whites Off Earth Now!! – in a special 20th Anniversary, 5.1 Surround Sound Super Audio CD edition on December 5th. While Mobile Fidelity has issued several Classical Music Surround Sound Super Audio CD discs …
We get to hear Peter Moore’s Soundfield recording in surround 20 years after the recording.
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The social networking site MySpace.com is using technology developed by GraceNote to “audio fingerprint” music files uploaded by users to make sure they’re not violating any copyrights.
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London, UK (October 23, 2006)–Apple Corps Ltd/EMI Music are to release the Beatles Love album in stereo and 5.1 on November 20. [snip]
The 5.1 disc is a DVD-Audio/DVD-Video hybrid. The audio is presented in high-resolution 96/24 5.1 surround on the DVD-Audio part of the disc. The DVD-Video part carries 5.1 surround in DTS and Dolby Digital as well as a PCM stereo mix. This DVD album is designed to be played on DVD video equipment but will carry no video component.
Right on. This is the way it can and should be done (for now). This being a very high profile release perhaps the idea of releasing audio only packages in this format will get some traction.
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If my receiver had an integrated HTTP server, I could tell it to switch to play music from my Mac Mini (that’s Aux 3, btw). Then I could send iTunes a network Apple Event (does it support XML-RPC?) to play my Grateful Dead for Travelers playlist. I could do this from my desktop computer, without even having to get up. I’m very close to audio-visual nirvana. When Apple partners with Denon, we’ll be all the way there. Or maybe Apple will go all the way and make an amp and speakers, better quality stuff than the boom box they’re selling now.
For some computer/geek perspective.
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While digital music sales were up during the first half, a decline in physical music sales led to an overall decline in total music sales.
A number of interesting tidbits in this article.
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Seven 5.1-main microphone configurations (see below) were compared in a listening test.
During a rehearsal of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna two different music samples (Mozart and Berio, representing contrasting dynamic characteristics) were recorded. 18 participants had to assess different characteristics of these sound samples (see the questionnaire) in a blind test. The results of these assessments are reproduced as mean values in 9 tables.
The test was repeated under comparable circumstances with 14 students at the FH Düsseldorf. The results of both listening tests are compared
This page was published almost one year ago but it’s worth drawing attention to again.
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Word is that there is now a software fix for this problem. Sonic Studio have updated their download page. Look for this string of text: “Sentinel Dongle Driver – 10.0.3 Installer ( 34 kB ZIP), for Mac OS 10.4.8″.
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