{"id":26236,"date":"2019-08-09T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26236"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:38:59","slug":"mastered-for-itunes-becomes-apple-digital-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/mastered-for-itunes-becomes-apple-digital-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Mastered for iTunes&rdquo; Becomes &ldquo;Apple Digital Masters&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/apple-digital-masters\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/apple-digital-masters\/\">\n<p>The way this is written makes it sound like Apple Digital Masters is equivalent to the lossless files offered by other platforms, but it is not. It is a rebranding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/itunes\/mastered-for-itunes\/\">Mastered for iTunes spec<\/a> &mdash; probably because Apple is no longer using the soiled &ldquo;iTunes&rdquo; branding to refer to their music products, with the exception of the iTunes Store. This spec is important because it helps labels deliver music that is mastered specifically for a compressed audio format, not just a conversion from the CD or vinyl master. This is great.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It still uses 256kbps AAC files.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer: The way this is written makes it sound like Apple Digital Masters is equivalent to the lossless files offered by other platforms, but it is not. It is a rebranding of the Mastered for iTunes spec &mdash; probably because Apple is no longer using the soiled &ldquo;iTunes&rdquo; branding to refer to their music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-09T20:00:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"1a04d97d-936a-4ecb-bd91-65a73d0b64a7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-09T20:00:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGgTZfZNqTsu9kWWnPQtkpw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[804,31,189,30,157],"class_list":["post-26236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aac","tag-ios","tag-itunesstore","tag-mac","tag-music"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26237,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions\/26237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}