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   Yeah, Aaron is correct, Gordon -- Apple has been requiring the record companies to supply them with 24-bit lossless files for a couple of years now.

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Brian W. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brian W. Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 May 2014 at 1:44pm
	Yeah, Aaron is correct, Gordon -- Apple has been requiring the record companies to supply them with 24-bit lossless files for a couple of years now.

aaronk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 208	Post Options Post Reply Quote aaronk Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 May 2014 at 3:54pm
	When I worked for Disney, we would occasionally have to send them things for our iTunes Store. Even as early as 2007, they were requiring lossless files.
	Aaron Kannowski Uptown Sound 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop

Brian W. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brian W. Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 May 2014 at 10:42pm
	Another recent article about Sony's plans to push for hi-res (doesn't really mention iTunes): Inside Sony's Plot To Snuff Out The MP3 For Good With High-Res Audio

Yah Shure Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 11 December 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Yah Shure Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 June 2015 at 8:11pm
	THE SEEKERS - "MORNINGTOWN RIDE" (Capitol 5785, 1967. #41 CB, #44 BB, #49 RW) Listed and actual commercial 45 time is (2:36). --------------------------------------- Per Dawn Eden's liner notes from the Seekers' 1992 Capitol Collectors Series CD: "Capitol capitalized upon the success of "Georgy Girl" with "Morningtown Ride," which had already made the English Top Five. In the label's haste, it made a goof. Instead of releasing the English hit version of "Morningtown Ride," which was done in 1966, they released an earlier version from one of the Seekers' World Record Club albums. The label corrected its mistake by putting the 1966 version on future releases of the song. This compilation marks the first release of the World Record Club version, which reached number 44 on the Hot 100." If the above statement is true, then Capitol made the switch while the iron was still in the fire. The version on my Capitol 5787 stock 45 is the 1966 UK hit version, not the World Record Club version. The two may not seem particularly different at first listen, but an A/B comparison shows that they are different recordings. The vocals are very close, but the real giveaway is the bass, which differs noticeably (there are also a couple of flubbed bass notes on the World Record Club version.) The World Record Club's cold ending has the strings ending just after the final banjo pick at the end, whereas those strings continue on for another 2-plus seconds on the Capitol 45/UK hit. My Capitol 45 does match the version on the 2004 UK import CD, The Seekers A's B's & EP's (EMI 23459 68182), which was part of an all-mono series, the covers of which all had the word "mono" in very large letters. The UK CD track does run slightly slower than the Capitol 45's 2:36. The same UK EMI CD also contains the mono mix of "A World Of Our Own" that matches the US Capitol 45, with its prominent acoustic guitar at the very beginning and an autoharp audible, but in the background. On the Capitol Collectors Series stereo mix, the tables are turned and the autoharp really overpowers the acoustic guitar at the beginning.

MMathews Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 18 August 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote MMathews Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 June 2015 at 4:07pm
	I should also mention that are two different versions of the Capitol Collector's Series CD. The 1992 version features the early version of MTR which was not the hit single version in the UK and the U.S. The liner notes were in error in that case. But in 1998 Bob Hyde remastered the CD for Collectables and that remaster contains the hit 1966 recording. Here are some comments from the BSN board from Tony Watson about this issue: The version actually released on single in the US is the group's 1966 remake for EMI, as I had always thought (my post #17). I've now listened to 3 other US copies in case my reference copy was a one-off and they are all identical. It is also the same version released in England on EMI's Columbia label - single #DB 8060. The 1992 Capitol Collectors CD contains the 1964 WRC recording (it's fairly narrow stereo there, as it is on other CDs containing that version), however it is not the version released on single in either country (unless there were 2 different singles issued in the US??). On the other hand, the Bob Hyde remastered Capitol Collectors CD reissued by Collectables in 1998 does use the correct US single version (it's wider stereo), so either someone at that company has realised the error, or a customer has pointed it out to them. To my knowledge, the first version of MTR was only ever issued in Australia on a single. The two versions are fairly easy to distinguish with a number of differences, one being the fuller sounding orchestra on the EMI recording. Even on the opening notes, as the mandolin is being plucked, the orchestra can clearly be heard in the background. One of the most noticeable differences can be found in the first verse of the song in the line "Sandman swings the lantern to show that all is well...". On the EMI recording, Judith Durham sings those 2 words "to show" in a very compacted way....almost as though it's one word. On the WRC recording however, she sings them more 'stretched out' - sorry I can't think of another word to describe it, other than there is more separation between them.

Yah Shure Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 11 December 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Yah Shure Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 June 2015 at 6:04pm
	Thanks for chiming in on "Morningtown Ride," Markie! Before posting, I did check the AllMusic Guide's review of the Collectors Series CD, which did mention the Collectables reissue and the fact that some of the original Capitol CD's liner notes were out of date, but then went on to add that the reissue included the original World Record Club version of "MTR." So much for trusting non-T40MOCD sources. :) I did notice what the BSN commenter indicated as Judith's "stretched out singing" differences between the two versions, later in the song. I believe around here, that's known as the "Bus Goes/Busgoes" Phenomenon. :)