Pono music is simply 24-bit FLAC. With the help of you listers I have altered my LP transcoding workflow to produce this output. Audacity is capable of recording as 32-bit WAV which can then be compressed to 24-bit FLAC. Most modern players (including cell phones) are capable of playing these files; making Mr. Young's $400 player a bit superfluous. OTOH, selling music in this format, which is higher definition than CD does make aesthetic (if not necessarily business) sense.
For those of you who must know more, pono is (according to Wikipedia) the Hawaiian word meaning "righteousness". Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:08 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ponomusic. Opinions? Neil's efforts are really just a way to play uncompressed audio as I understand it. The story I heard was that he was all bent out of shape over how poorly common compressed formats like MP3 sound. I can't see this going anywhere myself. Good to see you, DBV! Dan Sent from my iPad > On Dec 4, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Van Knutson via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Ponomusic ( https://ponomusic.force.com/ ) is a high def music > project backed by Neil Young. Its an inline lossless digital music player, due to ship Q1 2015 at $400 a pop. Their library is rather limited at the moment, but they plan on expanding rapidly as more licensing agreements are signed with artists and publishers. That aside, they claim to at least attempt to improve the throughput quality of non-lossless files -- even mp3's -- as well, meaning you don't necessarily have to buy their remastered files for it to work, with the aforementioned caveats on output quality. Their files are extremely dense, turning what would be a 3-4 meg mp3 into 50-60 meg file, if memory serves. Their current players are expandable to 128 G -- 64 G on board, with a 64 G slot So, is this a game changer in high-def listening, or a well-intentioned but ultimately non contributory measure to improve the art? Opinions? > DBV, president, low budget audiophile division > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
