Gail Zappa, the widow of Frank Zappa, is furious with iTunes and other digital music services, complaining the service offers music that is far too compressed - more so than the artist himself ever intended.
"It was Frank's concept to limit to a format so that it was accurately represented, that being 16-bit technology - CDs. He didn't want it compressed. So we're currently in a lawsuit over this issue," she said.
What Zappa's widow is stressing is that the music her husband made was meant to be heard at a certain quality - compressed, it's just not the same. "iTunes has been from the get-go massively compressed," she said, "That's fine perhaps if you'
