Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online

Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by sumeetjain on Monday November 15, 2010 @09:47PM (#1908810)

I get it: The Beatles are huge, and Apple's had a colorful relationship with them. But why does that make tomorrow unforgettable?

"While the move to digital does not quite rival the band’s first trip across the Atlantic to appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, it is an acknowledgment that online purchases dominate the music industry’s sales strategy."

I didn't realize that the online purchasing model was something that still needed acknowledgement, and I definitely don't see how one artist's addition to the iTunes catalogue (even if that artist is The Beatles) is such an acknowledgement.

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by sumeetjain on Monday November 15, 2010 @10:32PM (#1908912)

Also, this reminded me of a friend's tweet from a while back.

http://twitter.com/holman/status/20483293633

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by protomyth on Monday November 15, 2010 @11:10PM (#1908999)

If you are a Beatles fan you have their music on (much better quality than mp3/aac) CDs. You have probably also ripped the songs to mp3/aac at a higher bit rate than iTunes will sell you (or maybe to a lossless format). Given that, I would expect some second day stories about how much better the CDs are anyway.

The only reason I would see a Beatles announcement as worth much is if it signaled that iTunes was going to sell music at above CD quality. At that point I could see some really big time sales.

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by Dbug on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @02:12AM (#1909378)

Above CD quality? With 60's material done with vacuum tubes and magnetic tape, CD sampling rates and bit depth won't limit the distribution quality. Of course there are often cases where there's room for noticeable improvement over earlier CD releases, but that's due to better hardware and differences in mastering and other processing.

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by ssp on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @08:17AM (#1909935)

I bet you could sell music sampled at some ridiculous rate to audiophiles. How about "Copelab Music Company"?

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by protomyth on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @04:08PM (#1915753)

Well, they make SACD versions of some truly epic 1960-1970 era music that gets very good reviews.

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by haribilalic on Monday November 15, 2010 @11:21PM (#1909017)

Or they downloaded average quality MP3s from P2P.

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by patrickaljord on Monday November 15, 2010 @10:43PM (#1908944)

They are probably going to announce streaming from itunes from their lala purchase.

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by rms on Monday November 15, 2010 @11:25PM (#1909026)

The Beatles were the last holdout.

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Re:Apple Strikes Deal to Sell Beatles Catalog Online by kree10 on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @12:22AM (#1909162)

AC/DC is still holding out, and probably will as long as the Young brothers are alive. They're apparently so against separating songs from the context of their albums, they've never even authorized a straight greatest hits compilation.

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