Ableton Forum

Had a lot of people asking me about what Mastered For iTunes means, and if they need to worry about it, so figured it was time to explain the details:

http://tarekith.com/mastered-for-itunes/

Thanks that was informative. Do all mastering engineers need to be called Bob though?!

It's long running joke, there's definitely a lot of them!

Interesting. Thanks for this.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/04/do ... -the-test/

Intresting read also.

IMHo the good part is that it introduces some principles to go against the loudness wars, but then again I don't like apple formats and reconverting to mp3 would be pointless.

In either case the vast majority of people is listening music in crap headphones, car stereos and small home speakers/computer speakers, Even the old home all in one stereo has been replaced. So the standard are very very low.

It's just a handfull of people that still enjoys and requieres listening music in a proper system.

login wrote:I don't like apple formats

What is it you don't like about AAC?

AAC is NOT an Apple standard, or an Apple specific format like a lot of people think. They just adopted the standard along with many other organizations, like the ISO.

stringtapper wrote:

login wrote:I don't like apple formats

What is it you don't like about AAC?

That many players dont support it.

Which? I haven't seen one yet in the last 5 years that won't play AACs.

Tarekith wrote:AAC is NOT an Apple standard, or an Apple specific format like a lot of people think. They just adopted the standard along with many other organizations, like the ISO.

My bad.

128 mbps MP3 will never die!!!!

You're probably right.