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Beatles and iTunes At Last?
rjshirts writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the Beatles and Apple have signed a reported $400 million dollar deal to bring the entire Beatles Catalog to iTunes. From the article: 'As of today there is no time frame as to when the catalog will appear online, but it seems to just be a matter of time. McCartney himself even said in November that the catalog would be making its way onto the the store some time in 2008. While we have heard this sort of thing time and time again, this might just be the real deal. Prepare yourself — Beatlemania is coming to iTunes.'"
Uuuuuuuh 400 Million for a body of works that's set begin expiring in 2013?
I guess $400 Million US Pesos is a only a few hundred pounds.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
If it is part of iTunes Plus than it is a completely unrestricted, higher quality, MP3 format.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
Zepplin is on iTunes, as of last year.
Oh God yes. $400 million is about £200 million, is £50 million per Beatle. McCartney's offered £25 million just to buy off Heather Mills in this divorce thing.
The Beatles were, are, and will remain for the foreseeable future, huge.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Considering that McCartney is worth £900M (~$1600M) himself I have very little doubt that they've grossed that much. I am still endlessly amazed just how much they have grossed in the end.
What were the remasters you got sourced from? To the best of my knowledge, no officially remastered versions have ever been made available anywhere yet. There are some "remastered" versions that are high-quality digital encodes of the original vinyl, but there isn't anything that's actually been re-encoded from that master tapes.
This guy's the limit!
Sony/ATV is a pretty good source. While EMI Group owns the recording rights to the Beatles catalog, Sony and Jackson own the rights to the vast majority of the catalog's publishing rights. Had a deal been cut, Sony/ATV would "absolutely be informed," the Sony/ATV spokeswoman said. So, somebody's probably not telling the truth here. We're probably being toyed with. In the Name of all that is Noodley and Good, I hate greed.
My work here is dung.
Paul McCartney's net worth is currently around 1.5 billion. When John Lennon died, his net worth was around $250 million.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Yeah, but records are restrictive in the fact that you can't just push a button to skip tracks.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Stipe says that comment about the Beatles was taken out of context.[mp3 file]
Link to RS story...
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/03/12/exclusive-audio-rem-talks-you-listen.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
An important thing to remember is that the Beatles catalog is owned by EMI, so it will almost assuredly be available in iTunes Plus.
The bit rate (256kbits) is good enough for pseudo-stereo recordings (singing in one channel, music in the other) that are 40+ years old. And the only bit of DRM on them is metadata with your ID; they will play on any player or software that supports MPEG4. Or, like any iTunes purchase, just burn to CD, re-rip and enjoy in the format of your choice. (Yes, I know, lossy formats, blah, blah, but for most people, it's fine.)
I'm generally not a big iTMS fan (I've bought 1 album per year on average since '03). But if the albums are reasonably priced, and if they manage to produce a decent-sounding remaster, I may just re-buy the Beatles' catalog for the first time in 20 years.
:q!