Captain Groovy PURCHASED Sir Macca's new single commercially
Jun 24, 2018 17:46:55 GMT
Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Jun 24, 2018 17:46:55 GMT
Captain Groovy said:
How can we purchase the single in the US? Been looking since "release", now it's Saturday, release(es) come out Fridays now I believe..?I don't use iTunes, I don't buy MP3s - I did see it available as an MP3 on Amazon a few days ago (where it was ranked Top 10 in music in Amazon so good for... people who buy MP3s?). Thought I read that they had stopped making MP3s last year, but I could be wrong.
CD single (unlikely), 16-bit digital download, HDTracks, vinyl single I'd have to rip to lossless, etc. nada - anyone? I just want the songs in my FLAC/WAV player... in lieu of that, the songs' getting a ****load of repeats on youtube, but I have to be sitting in front of my system to listen!
Jeff
Frank said:
I took 5 seconds to Google "Paul McCartney Come On To Me Hisres Flac"www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/21391
Come On To Me | HDtracks - The World's Greatest-Sounding Music Downloads
Spoiler alert:
www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/21390
I Don't Know | HDtracks - The World's Greatest-Sounding Music Downloads
There were other results. Google works nice.
Captain Groovy said:
When did you purchase your commercial copy of the single?Jeff
Frank said:
It's a digital single. I stream, but downloads are available as noted in my reply.You mentioned being unable to find it on HDTracks, which is why I helpfully included the links.Captain Groovy said:
So you didn't purchase Paul McCartney's new single? That answers it for me (but somehow I knew the answer ahead of time).Jeff
Frank said:
Like I said, I stream. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to imply, but I'm pretty sure it's incorrect.Captain Groovy said:
I purchased the single - seems we way have to wait for a physical release but no matter to me, shocked some loud "fans" didn't even PURCHASE the single in ANY form! What does iTunes rankings go by? Repeated listening of the samples? So "die-hard" Paul fans may not be driving actual sales. Fascinating to me, really.Jeff
Captain Groovy said:
This is (was?) an audiophile board. To hear "Paul fans" saying they're listening in 320kbs while you can purchase the songs commercially but they DON'T is simply surprising to me, THAT'S ALL. Not just "Paul Fans" - people who define themselves here AS Paul fans!Not accusing anyone of being more of a fan or not. I get that, I'm not one to tie out "Who gets what" or who pays for tix to see Paul as more of a "fan" than others. I don't care to buy his live CDs of late, but I've got every demo and b-side that exists out there... and then some. So that's me. But if a studio outtake existed officially in a commercially available lossless form - I BUY IT! Again, that's just me.
But proclaimed fans not PURCHASING their copies of a NEW Paul single? That's surreal.
I dumped Spotify - terrible on headphones IMO, but not the point - Paul gets paid every time it streams legally anywhere now and that service is not for me.. better places to listen to OOP albums IMO which is what Spotify was for, for me. I think there was one iTunes only single for a terrible latter day De Niro film (I know, that narrows it down!), song not bad, but at time, only place to purchase.
Again, I am just very surprised that loud "Paul fans" don't put their money down for the guy and OWN the single - not even $2 for a 24bit file. Wild. Just wild. And lossy listening is an acceptable (or obviously preferred) substitute. One can understand this POV at least even if don't agree, no?
But yes - I will agree with anyone who says they are a die-hard Paul fan who is analyzing and listening to the new song in their preferred legal method! You don't have to be an audiophile to be a Paul fan, and vice versa. Heck, there are Paul fans who don't buy his new albums but have loads of his albums at home. But they aren't talking about the new songs...
Glad Paul is so accessible via Spotify, Youtube, Vimeo, etc. and its all monetized for people who want to check it out, listen, not buy it...
Speaking of LOUD - DR is crap on these two, but at least it's not clipped like the content-wonderful, unlistenable ear-bleeder, Memory Almost Full. So mastering wise... audiophiles shouldn't get their hopes up unfortunately. Love the production though - LOVE it.
I am fully aware of the changes happening, and monetizing, and specific rights etc because I'm a producer on an upcoming release in July, and know exactly what rights record label retains and will monetize, and what we licensed for a physical format. Totally cool with label monetizing our work in exchange for the exclusive right to release physically for a term.
Case dismissed!
Jeff
brainwashed said:
Nice post Jeff. I took one look in Audacity and though the graph looked compressed, it wasn't horrible, peak-limited, like Memory Almost Full. Perhaps the iTunes mastering at play here? I haven't downloaded the hdtracks yet. A bit of judicious eq and the graph results AND audio sounded nicer. Ron