TAPER ALERT: First Greensky audio now available!

[BuckeyeDog]

Since we are discussing taping here, and there are many Neil Young fans out there. here is some news of interest. Seems Young and friends have finally come out with a portable music player named PonoPlayer that can store and play FLAC files. This means that most of us tapers may no longer have to convert FLACs into mp3s to play on portable devices, and lose 90% of the sound quality in the process. You can read about it here.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/neil-young-ponoplayer-high-resolution-music-1.3331767

Now if we can get him to Telluride so that we can test out his player, eh?

 Listening to: Turn your Radio On--Blue Sky Boys

[TellurideTom]

Since we are discussing taping here, and there are many Neil Young fans out there. here is some news of interest. Seems Young and friends have finally come out with a portable music player named PonoPlayer that can store and play FLAC files. This means that most of us tapers may no longer have to convert FLACs into mp3s to play on portable devices, and lose 90% of the sound quality in the process. You can read about it here.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/neil-young-ponoplayer-high-resolution-music-1.3331767

Now if we can get him to Telluride so that we can test out his player, eh?

My understanding of the player isn't quite so simple.
I've read that it uses a proprietary codec similar to flac that makes it loss-less, but it would only play those sold under it's label. You could buy songs by artists that it has under contract.
You couldn't use it to play flac files.

[BuckeyeDog]

TT wrote:
My understanding of the player isn't quite so simple.
I've read that it uses a proprietary codec similar to flac that makes it loss-less, but it would only play those sold under it's label. You could buy songs by artists that it has under contract.
You couldn't use it to play flac files.
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That being true, it would certainly limit the market for this device. i would think they would have a hard time selling these if all it could handle would be proprietary files from selected contracted artists. Music fans tend to get their music from various sources. Even I Tunes is fairly flexible now.
My hope is that at least some of the revenue generated goes back to the artists.

[Doc Mike]

Wrong Tom. I am a Kickstarter backer and proud owner of the Neil Young Limited Edition # 170/500 Pono player. It will play ANY music file format from DSD to lowly mp3. The sound will drop your jaw. You have never heard anything like it.
Stereophile magazine just named it the digital device of the year, beating out digital players that cost 3-4X as much. I rarely use iTunes anymore, and am slowly building my hi-res music collection.
If any of the tapers want to put their 24-bit recordings up, instead of converting to 16-bit, I wouldn't mind.

[TellurideTom]

Wrong Tom. I am a Kickstarter backer and proud owner of the Neil Young Limited Edition # 170/500 Pono player. It will play ANY music file format from DSD to lowly mp3. The sound will drop your jaw. You have never heard anything like it.
Stereophile magazine just named it the digital device of the year, beating out digital players that cost 3-4X as much. I rarely use iTunes anymore, and am slowly building my hi-res music collection.
If any of the tapers want to put their 24-bit recordings up, instead of converting to 16-bit, I wouldn't mind.

Happy to be mistaken.
Maybe it was a beta version that I read about a long time ago, but I'm glad I was wrong.

[rossstevens]

THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY BANDS THAT I FIND MYSELF LISTENING TO THE MOST !!

 Listening to: GREENSKY BLUEGRASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Australian fan]

Me too, me too!