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Neil Young's "Righteous" Pono Music Startup Raises $1 Million With Kickstarter
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Jose Pagliery reports at CNN that the 68-year-old rock star unveiled his startup, Pono, at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas raising $1.4 million in a single day. Young has developed a portable music player that stores high-resolution recordings and promises to deliver all the delicate details that get chopped out of modern-day formats, like MP3s and CDs. 'Pono' is Hawaiian for righteous. 'What righteous means to our founder Neil Young is honoring the artist's intention, and the soul of music. That's why he's been on a quest, for a few years now, to revive the magic that has been squeezed out of digital music.' With 128 GB of space, the PonoPlayer can carry about 3,200 tracks of high-resolution recordings while an MP3 player of the same size can hold maybe 10 times that many songs. Young says the MP3 files we're all listening to actually are pretty poor from an audio-quality standpoint and only contains about five percent of the audio from an original recording. But isn't FLAC already lossless? What makes Pono better?"
Had to read that twice.
Neil Young sellling Diamond dust? Can't we just call him Neil Diamond instead?
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Something tells me....he is going to catch a ton of flac over this.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Also, the damn thing is triangular.
Actually, no. The Pono's shape would be properly described as prismatic .
Great. A geometry Nazi.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
The problem with FLAC is how does one get FLAC?
Shit, I get FLAC all the time for my music. Especially if I play it really loud.
Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler. --The Devil and Daniel Webster
Maybe. But don't forget that the analog to digital conversion is itself a lossy process, so the only REAL way to listen to music is to carry around a record player in a briefcase. That's what all the real audio hipsters are doing.