User:Blm07

Me
I like to improve the technical side of theme park topics, including theme park albums.

"Perfect audio distribution"
It's 2012, and it's to the point where I'd much rather have FLAC downloads become common place. It also shouldn't cost any more than $10 per album, unless it's a double album, and you should be able to download tracks at a fraction of how many tracks are on the album, instead of a fixed price.

The audio would be stored in a lossless format: FLAC. FLAC can contain 24 bit audio and up to 8 channels. In a normal release, 2 channels (front left and front right) for the music, and 2 channels for the vocals (this may require refinement within the format), making it easy to disable the vocal channels to hear an instrumental version of the song. In other releases, you could have a surround sound concert utilizing up to 8 channels. In other releases, you could include separate vocal tracks, making it easy to include the radio edit(s), other languages, or even just listen to an acapella version. It would also be nice to have high quality 24bit versions of the music directly from the studio.

Just face it, physical releases are too redundant. When I first wrote this article a few years ago, I wished that SD cards would eventually replace Compact Disc as a music distribution format. slotMusic was a music distribution system similar to what I am talking about, but they screwed that up. With downloaded audio, there is no point to having a CD or a CD player anymore. Direct audio from the studio master is the way to go. The FLAC format would flourish, adding new format capabilities, new player capabilities, and audio could easily be converted to mp3 for portable players. Somehow, I doubt they'll ever do this. They'll keep inventing new proprietary formats with some stupid protection, raising the prices, instead of using a codec that is well established, where you don't have pay fees to use.