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| From | mark london <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> |
| Subject | Re: Universal Music cuts CD price |
| Date | Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:38:45 -0400 |
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> >Stop worrying about the formats and start changing the
> >*MUSIC*.
Actually, there is a format which I'm still hoping to see someday,
and am curious if would ever be done (or if anyone would want to do
it). That is, I want a format which would provide me the music in
the original multi-track format, so that I could mix the music, and
create a CD that sounds the way I want it to sound. No more of
having people hating the way that some producer decided it should be
sound.
Now, that would be a lot of data for a single album to fit even on a
single DVD. However, in order to do the mixing, you would need to
do it on a computer anyway, and so you wouldn't care if it required
several disks, as it would be transferred to a hard drive anyway.
And, now here's the possible incentive for music companies. Since
this theoretical multi track format disk(s) is not meant to be played
on a CD type of player, but instead would be meant to be used by a
single computer, that I'm sure there is a way to make it that such
files could only be accessed on the computer it's licensed for, just
as some software is configured so that it will only run on a single
computer, and can't be installed on another computer (at least
easily) without calling the company back for another key.
Would there be a demand for something like this? Would companies
ever allow it to be done? Someone could come up with a better mix
than the official CD, which of course the companies wouldn't want to
happen. And, of course, there are probably artists that wouldn't
want that allowed either. But it's a sort of dream I've always had,
so maybe someday?
Mark
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