23.02.2011 01:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple, others in talks to improve quality of music downloads

CNN reports that Apple is in touch with record labels to try and improve the quality of the downloadable music it sells on iTunes and elsewhere. Currently, the MP3s sold on iTunes are formatted as 16-bit files, but under the new proposal, they'd be upgraded to 24-bit files, which means the files would have more audio data included, and thus be able to play out at a higher resolution. As Chris Foresman at Ars argues, however, it may not matter anyway. While higher quality is always nice to have (and there's no reason Apple shouldn't have it, unless they need to compress

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