In April, Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young announced that he was shifting gears on his high-fidelity audio project, Pono. What began as a music player and online music store would become a high-quality streaming service, Xstream. This week, Young not only released his thirty-ninth studio album, The Visitor, he also launched the Neil Young Archive, a site that contains almost his entire back catalog using the service, which visitors can listen to in a high quality format.
Young has decried the relatively low quality that most music is available in for digital audiences. In 2012, he told Walt Mossberg and Peter Kafka at D: Dive Into Media that he was concerned about the quality of MP3, and hoped that better devices would come to...
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