ITunes helped revolutionize digital media distribution but the sound quality still sucks, rocker Neil Young told the Financial Times.
Young says he's been working on an "alternative digital platform" which could offer higher-quality downloads. The new platform, he says, can be used for "broader media" purposes.
"We're in discussions right now about developing our own media platform based on that," he said. Something record companies can sell their artists'
works on. Something that can't be downloaded, something that's got much more depth. It has every media component you could want, and they're all married together in a platform. That means other artists could use it, other record companies could use it and gain the knowledge of our 15-year development curve."
Young's complaints echo a similar sentiment from film director David Lynch, who railed against iPhone users who watch movies on their "fucking phone . . . You will never in a trillion years experience the film [on a phone ]. . . Get real."
