Neil Young Says The Record Labels Killed Pono Service

Neil Young has sounded off about the demise of his Pono high-definition music service and says that the record labels are to blame. The service and its adjoin hardware music player were created by Young and a team of developers to offer high quality audio files to the public.More »

By on February 16, 2018

Neil Young has sounded off about the demise of his Pono high-definition music service and says that the record labels are to blame. The service and its adjoining hardware music player were created by Young and a team of developers to offer high quality audio files to the public. In a recent interview, however, Young blames the record labels for the service’s eventual crash saying that it ultimately came down to pricing: “The record labels killed it.. They killed it by insisting on charging two to three times as much for the high-res files as for MP3s,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “Why would anybody pay three times as much?” He adds: “It’s my feeling that all music should cost the same,” he said. “The [high-resolution] file doesn’t cost any more to transfer. And today with streaming, you don’t have the problem [of unauthorized file sharing]. Who wants to copy something if you can stream it? The record companies, by charging three times as much for hi-res music as they charge for regular music, they’ve killed hi-res music,” he said. “It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.” Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «

Around the site