Neil Young developing digital music product for downloading

New York, - Neil Young  said Tuesday that he is selecting up where  Steve Jobs  eventually left off, operating on a product that can provide electronic songs without compromising excellent as iTunes, Amazon and others have done.


" Steve Jobs  was a pioneer of electronic songs, but when he went house he believed vinyl fabric," Young informed Chris Kafka and Wally Mossberg at AllThingsD's Plunge Into Media Conference. "I have to believe if he resided lengthy enough he would have tried to do what I'm trying to do."


The famous musician is operating on a individual product that downloads available each tune at the best possible image, but that also requires Half an hour to finish just one acquire.

Young said he is trying to create lawful songs as practical as possible, but some concerned that the lengthy acquire periods would be annoying.

Young could not agree.

"While you're getting to sleep, your product is operating for you," he said.

Young did not produce Jobs' name at unique. He said that he had been discussing with Tasks about the venture, but that since the Apple organization co-founder passed away in August there is "not much going on now."

In obtain for it to hit the industry the "rich individuals out here" --meaning the convention audience-- need to help.

Yet just because Young resents electronic songs and technological innovation organizations for decreasing the excellent of most music articles, that doesn't mean he requires a in reverse strategy to unlawful songs or the Online.


"I look at Online as the new radio and radio as gone," Young said. "Piracy is the new radio; it's how songs gets around."
What does that mean for history companies?
Young desires they hold around.

"I like Warner Bros. I like my history organization," he informed Kafka and Mossberg, the latter of whom requested what songs enterprise can really do for someone of his built.

"It's not what's for me but for other performers," Youthful said. "What I like about songs enterprise is they
cultivate an artisan, they keep stimulating designers to develop. That doesn't are available on iTunes. That doesn't are available on Amazon."


But Young also recognized that the songs enterprise create bad enterprise options because they are songs individuals who stay "in another community from Silicon Valley."

Acknowledging those that say songs enterprise are outdated, all Young could say was "maybe they are.


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