Neil Young has an agreement with Warner Bros. No Prince involvement needed

Pono has already signed an agreement with Warner Music Group to remaster its catalog for Pono distribution.

[Edited 1/12/15 19:54pm]

I love both Prince and Neil Young as well...

I also see no connec--

but WAIT.

They both play guitar.

And they both sing!

Coincidence?

"Prince and Neil Young are into Porno. Pass it on"

PANDURITO said:

"Prince and Neil Young are into Porno. Pass it on"

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Examples needed.

There's a tour documentary from 1987 that circulates among Neil collectors, where he and one of his crew are talking about the show that night, talking about how tough the audience was, how they really had to give everything they had to get a rise out of people. The associate starts to say something like, "How is Prince gonna..." and Neil snaps back, "Prince is a genius!" The other guy says "Yeah I know he;s a genius but..." and Neil says "But he'd better be ready to give them everything he's got."

So other than that one statement of admiration from Neil, I don't know of any other connection. He doesn't seem to be a guy that listens to a lot of music newer than when he was in high school.

I didn't notice there are high res Prince downloads available - anyone know if they are just upsamples of the existing CD tracks or actual newly mastered for HD? (I'm guessing, not newly mastered).

Pono does sound interesting but right now I am eyeing the Fiio X1, which for $99 and a memory card, has the same playback capabilities (eg, it handles 24-bit FLAC files which is how most HDs are sold).

I've never heard of pono, but that's a briliiant name for a website. Lots of traffic from people who type too fast.

Beyond that, I got nothin'.

I'm thrilled with the better sound quality of Pono but I am very unhappy that someone can only buy music through their site to put on their music player. Where's the freedom and where's the improvement over Itunes and Ipod in that regard...

PANDURITO said:

"Prince and Neil Young are into Porno. Pass it on"

Hahahahahaha

purplethunder3121 said:

I'm thrilled with the better sound quality of Pono but I am very unhappy that someone can only buy music through their site to put on their music player. Where's the freedom and where's the improvement over Itunes and Ipod in that regard...

I don't think that's true. The files are simply FLAC, and can be loaded into the PONO the same way files can be added to iTunes (which also don't have to be purchased from their store to be used on your iPod).

Revolution said:

Cinnamon Girl

I was always pretty weirded out by this. I mean, I know it's fairly common for two distinct songs to share the same title, but at the same time Neil Young's title is so specific I can't believe it was an accident on Prince's part. And it's not exactly an obscure album track either, it's one of Neil Young's best known songs, which makes Prince's borrowing of the title even weirder.

Revolution said:

TwiliteKid said:

purplethunder3121 said:

I'm thrilled with the better sound quality of Pono but I am very unhappy that someone can only buy music through their site to put on their music player. Where's the freedom and where's the improvement over Itunes and Ipod in that regard...

I don't think that's true. The files are simply FLAC, and can be loaded into the PONO the same way files can be added to iTunes (which also don't have to be purchased from their store to be used on your iPod).

You can put FLAC files on your IPOD? If so, how? I ain't no techie and haven't been able to do so.

purplethunder3121 said:

TwiliteKid said:

I don't think that's true. The files are simply FLAC, and can be loaded into the PONO the same way files can be added to iTunes (which also don't have to be purchased from their store to be used on your iPod).

You can put FLAC files on your IPOD? If so, how? I ain't no techie and haven't been able to do so.

No, but you can use iTunes to rip your CDs into ALAC (Apple's lossess). What I meant earlier was that you don't have to purchase direclty from the iTunes or PONO stores to use a file on their respecitve players. As long as the files are compatable, you can use files from any source.

As of right now, Ipods cannot play FLAC files. It's not like it would be hard to make an Ipod that plays FLAC files, they just haven't done it yet. I'll bet they will within a year.

The Pono store is just one place you can buy HD downloads. Other sites include HDtracks.com. Most of them sell whatever the labels have licensed, either in 16 bit or high-res 24 bit. One thing I did notice, was the Pono store allows you to buy individual tracks for about $2.50, which HDtracks did not, for the titles I was looking at.

I haven't gotten into high res yet. It's interesting but pricey and I got other things to worry about.

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