Chesky Music goes high-end online!
16/04/08 09:51 Filed in: Music
Audiophile music label Chesky Records has joined
forces with other recording labels to offer high
resolution music for download online!
The companies press release says, "As you
probably know, with record stores closing it has
become increasingly difficult to find quality music.
For several years, we have been developing a better
way to deliver great sounding records to serious
music lovers, and would like to personally extend an
invitation to test drive the latest evolution in
high-definition music."
All of the music on offer is available through HDtracks and allows for music downloads in CD-quality AIFF (the native CD format) and FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), as well as 320 kbps MP3. In the near future, select titles will be offered as DVD-Audio quality 24-bit/96kHz. Thankfully, all files available for download are DRM (Digital Rights Management) free, so you can play them in virtually any audio file player.
We tip our hat to Chesky for this initiative as it brings us one step closer to the being able to buy our music in the format we would like, without DRM. The more companies that do this, the more accepted it will be that people WILL buy online DRM free music un-compressed when it it offered!
With rumours suggesting that Music Giants will soon be offering their content DRM free, all they need to do now is realise that not everyone uses a PC and Internet Explorer (which their site is limited to) and we will be yet another step closer.
All of the music on offer is available through HDtracks and allows for music downloads in CD-quality AIFF (the native CD format) and FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), as well as 320 kbps MP3. In the near future, select titles will be offered as DVD-Audio quality 24-bit/96kHz. Thankfully, all files available for download are DRM (Digital Rights Management) free, so you can play them in virtually any audio file player.
We tip our hat to Chesky for this initiative as it brings us one step closer to the being able to buy our music in the format we would like, without DRM. The more companies that do this, the more accepted it will be that people WILL buy online DRM free music un-compressed when it it offered!
With rumours suggesting that Music Giants will soon be offering their content DRM free, all they need to do now is realise that not everyone uses a PC and Internet Explorer (which their site is limited to) and we will be yet another step closer.