Of course, being of that "age" (both literally and figuratively), I went and ordered one of those Apple USB Beatles boxes. After all, it's "HiRez"!! 
Well, it showed up today, and I have to say, "It's pretty cool!" :banana: (Can you believe that Amazon sent it without insurance? It was just sitting on my stoop, never had to sign for it at all!???)
The first thing I did was copy the whole thing to one of my music drives, a large 1.5 TB monster in one of my removable slots on the big PC. It took about 9 minutes to copy. Once that was done, I opened up the 24bit files in Sound Forge 10 (without an issue) and listened on the PC. It was very cool to be able to just grab a tune, look at it, hear it, solo a single channel, and explore these songs I know by heart with little or no effort.
I was even taking sections of "Revolution #9", and reversing the backwards audio in SF just to hear what that would sound like.
For those of you who do conversions and work with audio files on your PC, this thing is a no brainer. In fact, it's quite puzzling in a way. With all of the crap we've put up with regarding copy protection in the past 10 years, here is EMI "handing over the keys", so to speak, to the entire Beatles catalog!! WTF is that?@:
For those interested, the files are separate for each song, sorted by album, but can be pasted together to create a seamless file. For example, I put Abbey Road together by creating an empty 24/44.1 wav file in SF and just pasting the flac files into it from first track to last. It worked great. (Time to make a DVD-A for the car!)
At any rate, of course the Blu-Rays will come soon enough, and hopefully in 5.1, but for now, the USB Apple is a hoot. I suppose I should have never gone for the stereo CD box. It was nice of them to hold off announcing this USB thing until after folks bought the remastered box sets, eh?
NOTE: The wav file shown at the bottom is the end of Abbey Road, from "I will sing a lullaby", right before "Carry That Weight". You can "see" "Her Majesty" there at the end!
Well, it showed up today, and I have to say, "It's pretty cool!" :banana: (Can you believe that Amazon sent it without insurance? It was just sitting on my stoop, never had to sign for it at all!???)
The first thing I did was copy the whole thing to one of my music drives, a large 1.5 TB monster in one of my removable slots on the big PC. It took about 9 minutes to copy. Once that was done, I opened up the 24bit files in Sound Forge 10 (without an issue) and listened on the PC. It was very cool to be able to just grab a tune, look at it, hear it, solo a single channel, and explore these songs I know by heart with little or no effort.
I was even taking sections of "Revolution #9", and reversing the backwards audio in SF just to hear what that would sound like.
For those of you who do conversions and work with audio files on your PC, this thing is a no brainer. In fact, it's quite puzzling in a way. With all of the crap we've put up with regarding copy protection in the past 10 years, here is EMI "handing over the keys", so to speak, to the entire Beatles catalog!! WTF is that?
@:For those interested, the files are separate for each song, sorted by album, but can be pasted together to create a seamless file. For example, I put Abbey Road together by creating an empty 24/44.1 wav file in SF and just pasting the flac files into it from first track to last. It worked great. (Time to make a DVD-A for the car!
)At any rate, of course the Blu-Rays will come soon enough, and hopefully in 5.1, but for now, the USB Apple is a hoot. I suppose I should have never gone for the stereo CD box. It was nice of them to hold off announcing this USB thing until after folks bought the remastered box sets, eh?
NOTE: The wav file shown at the bottom is the end of Abbey Road, from "I will sing a lullaby", right before "Carry That Weight". You can "see" "Her Majesty" there at the end!
