Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It

From wired Magazine
By Michael Calore

Neil Young is right: Those songs on your iPhone do sound like crap, and it’s time we demand better-sounding alternatives for our digital music.
Speaking at the D: Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, the outspoken musician expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the MP3 format and called for an end-to-end reboot of the consumer digital audio ecosystem, from file formats to playback devices.
Young’s big beef: Digital music files download quickly, but suffer a significant loss in quality. Bitrates for most tracks on iTunes average 256kbps AAC audio encoding, which is drastically inferior to the quality of recorded source material in almost every case. By Young’s estimation, CDs offer only 15 percent of the recording information contained on the master tracks. Convert that CD-quality audio to MP3 or AAC, and you’ve lost a great deal of richness and complexity.
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My comment:

As a long time music listener (almost 60 Years) and one who appreciates quality I'll just say this: I can't tell the fucking difference. Maybe I'm deaf.  Maybe I'm stupid. But the only time I have any interest in any of this is when some shithead like Neil Young decides to go on a rant.  Pack it in asshole and be grateful for the money you've made off us playing a fucking guitar and singing stupid lyrics.