The other day I finally passed the 100,000 song mark in my iTunes library... right before it crashed and irretrievably corrupted, I glimpsed the magical number of
100,360-something Items (I didn't lose the files, but I do now have to repopulate the library from scratch. If you're anal about your metadata, I'd think about keeping backup copies of your library). Since this number represents over a decade of buying and selling, borrowing, burning, and stealing, fucking and getting-fucked-by the music industry, I thought I'd mark the occasion by having a celebrity remind you all how Right I Am. Because if 100,000 songs - and no, most of my shit ain't on Spotify - doesn't mean I have the Truth on my side, then I'm really in trouble. Remember when I went on yet another boring, didactic
rant about 'why the fuck am I using
Greatest Generation-wave technology to listen to music in 2011?' It's the (lack of) sound quality in digital music, not by accident but by design. It baffles me why even SACD's have made zero inroads over the last decade, or why labels won't at least
try to release high fidelity files over the internet, and consequently why my 100,000 song archive has to sound like shit. Of course Neil Young agrees with me, he's been beating this horse for decades.
Here's Neil, at a lame conference for old people who want to feel hip to technology, telling it like it is (or should be):
Neil speaks the truth - music doesn't sound, technically, as good as it did in 1978, piracy is the new radio, and Steve Jobs ❤ vinyl. Here's to wishing for the day when iTunes feels more like this:
Now, if I could only get 365 days worth of music on my computer - how many songs would that be...
