DEG which is a trade group is pushing for better efforts around high-resolution audio. Here is the list of companies poised to stream high resolution audio:
I had a long chat with Marc Finer above. I explained how disappointing it is to find high-res files that have problems, are still compressed like the CD is, etc. He fully understood the issues and promised that this go around the recording engineers are involved. And that labels are standardizing the work-orders to include high-resolution files as a deliverable in addition to MP3, CD, etc. And that they will be providing proper provenance and metadata (album information). I offered to help in any way I can (my group and I worked with DEG while I was at Microsoft on introduction of high definition optical media).
Let's hope all of this comes to fruition.
I had a long chat with Marc Finer above. I explained how disappointing it is to find high-res files that have problems, are still compressed like the CD is, etc. He fully understood the issues and promised that this go around the recording engineers are involved. And that labels are standardizing the work-orders to include high-resolution files as a deliverable in addition to MP3, CD, etc. And that they will be providing proper provenance and metadata (album information). I offered to help in any way I can (my group and I worked with DEG while I was at Microsoft on introduction of high definition optical media).
Let's hope all of this comes to fruition.