{"id":2443747,"date":"2019-05-04T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=831317"},"modified":"2019-05-04T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:10:37","slug":"neil-young-pens-new-book-detailing-quest-to-save-high-quality-digital-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/neil-young-pens-new-book-detailing-quest-to-save-high-quality-digital-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Pens New Book Detailing Quest to Save High-Quality Digital Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between recording new material with Crazy Horse<\/a> and digging through his fertile archives<\/a>, Neil Young<\/a> managed to make time to pen another book: To Feel the Music: A Songwriter\u2019s Quest to Save High-Quality Audio<\/em> finds Young discussing digital music<\/a>, from his short-lived Pono<\/a> device to the Neil Young Archives, as well as his pursuit to improve the medium\u2019s sound quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Feel the Music<\/em> is the story of my efforts to improve the quality of audio that you hear,\u201d Young wrote of the book in his NYA Times-Contrarian<\/a>. To Feel the Music<\/em>, co-written by Phil Baker, is available to preorder<\/a> now ahead of its September 9th release.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes you through how the sound was and is compromised by the tech and record companies, and instead of improving over time like other technologies, it has become worse,\u201d Young continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur book also tells the business and development story behind Pono, and then, when people wanted the convenience of streaming, how we developed Xstream high resolution streaming, the highest quality streaming in the world, as you hear it at [Neil Young Archives].\u201d<\/p>\n

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Young, who withdrew his music from digital music services for a period as protest of their subpar sound quality, launched a Kickstarter for his Pono player<\/a> in 2014; at the time, the device delivered what was promised as the highest quality digital music available. However, the device failed to catch on with the masses, and Young instead shifted his efforts toward the high-res Xstream, which delivers high-quality audio to the Neil Young Archives.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Feel the Music<\/em> is the true story of Neil\u2019s quest to bring high-quality audio back to music lovers\u2014which he considers the most important undertaking of his career,\u201d the book\u2019s synopsis states. \u201cInside, follow Neil as he discovers the step by step deterioration of recorded sound as analog is methodically replaced by digital CDs, MP3s, and low-price, low-quality streaming; gathers others committed to his goal of delivering music the way artists intend for it to sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue of improving audio quality has been one of the most important things we\u2019ve been doing for decades, and something I focus on every day,\u201d Young added. \u201cWe spent a year writing this and I think you\u2019ll find it interesting and informative. The book will be released September 9 and I hope you enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between recording new material with Crazy Horse and digging through his fertile archives, Neil Young managed to make time to pen another book: To Feel the Music: A Songwriter\u2019s Quest to Save High-Quality Audio finds Young discussing digital music, from his short-lived Pono device to the Neil Young Archives, as well as his pursuit to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 12:33:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}