Pono store to open with 2.5million tracks?

http://www.audiostream.com/content/pono-music-store-launch-25m-tracks


I'd be happier if they said 'Pono store to open with 10,000 tracks'.

2.5 million = no way these are remastered. Yup, it's HDtracks all over again.

 

Is this USA only again?

 

Yes, what is that -- a couple of hundred thousand albums? No way they remastered that many albums from the original analog masters in high rez digital.

 

told you it was a fail

 

So are you implying that these are just upsampled CD versions? Who knows what the labels have been doing all these years, for all we know there could be a bunch of Warner stuff sitting on servers at hi-rez.

 

The vast majority will be lossless 16/44.1. "The highest resolution available". They won't be up sampled. They will be sold at 16/44.1.

 

Oh, well I'm ok with that but at this point I probably have all the non-OOP releases that I want in my flac library from my own CDs.

 

I'm going to stick with my vinyl 24 bit 10 million kHz

 

I thought the record companies have been backing in hi-rez.If so,there you have it.

 

That's exactly it. And I think it's a good thing if the price is right. I'm all for lossless downloads.

 

I sincerely hope it's "HDTracks all over again," since that's where I buy most of my new music these days. Still, I'll be relatively content with 2.5 million tracks at CD resolution (at last!) for download.

 

And that will most likely be the issue. These need to be $10 per album or less. Otherwise it will fail. Personally, I don't see them selling these at that price - more like $12 or $15 per album or even higher.

 

Apple will rescue Pono when it fails and market the store successfully under the Apple banner- imo.

 

They will likely sell at current market prices for high res downloads, same as HDTRACKS, Acoustic Sounds, Prostudiomasters, etc. (e.g. about $18 for a new release 24/96 download, but with occasional discounts/offers of 10-20% off)

 

whats hi res about 16/44.1 though? do not get it...

 

Exactly. Why pay as much as what a full price cd used to cost (and most new releases cost far less now) for 16/44.1 files with no physical disc and no artwork?

 

Yeah but the whole PONO thing I have been reading about for all these months was all about hires, better masters, whatever...so what gives?? Baffling. I gotta be missing something!

 

Maybe their download manager will work, or better yet, be unnecessary!

 

They're converting iTunes purchases to 24/96 next week, if anything they might put Pono out of business rather quickly.

 

I don't think so. Every download vendor so far sells 16/44.1 files for less than hi-res files.

 

That was my point....16/44.1 files need to be $10 or less for an album.

I agree they will most likely price the higher res files at a higher price - which is still a ripoff IMO.

 

Let's hope their search function works well.

 

I was offering an expected price for high res, not 16/44.1.

Sure, 16/44.1 would be cheaper, probably $10-$12, maybe less for older catalog.

 

Ah, ok. I got confused because you quoted rockclassics' reply to my post, which was about 16/44.1 files.

 

This defeats the whole purpose of Pono then. Dead duck in the water. Totally baffling.

I dont care though, its not for me. Im annoyed enough going out with my car keys, smokes AND phone...much less adding a bloody Pono to the load.