The influential musician Neil Young says that in seeking the comfort of wireless transmission, or storage of large catalogs of songs on handheld devices, we have sacrificed the quality of the music , and by extension our overall listening experience. But the belief that the two need not be mutually exclusive has led Young to devise a system called PonoMusic , which he believes will pay for digital music listeners of the ease and accessibility of today and the audio quality of yesteryear .
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PonoMusic is a system comprising an online music store and a handheld device called PonoPlayer . Like you can buy music through the iTunes Apple Store to play on your iPod touch , classic individual songs or nano or albums can be purchased in PonoMusic to be stored in the cloud, a backup offline and played on the device. The difference , however , lies in the type of audio files that is.
PonoMusic is a system comprising an online music store and a handheld device called PonoPlayer . Like you can buy music through the iTunes Apple Store to play on your iPod touch , classic individual songs or nano or albums can be purchased in PonoMusic to be stored in the cloud, a backup offline and played on the device. The difference , however , lies in the type of audio files that is.
According PonoMusic , compressed MP3 files with a bit rate of 192 kbps or 256 kbps dark much of the detail and dynamic range that is captured in music at the time of recording. As such, the platform uses PonoMusic FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec ) as its standard audio format , ranging from CD recordings lossless to 1411 kbps ( 44.1 kHz/16 bit) for recordings of ultra – high resolution 9216 kbps ( 192 kHz / 24 – bit) . The company says that this amounts to between six and 30 times more information available for PonoPlayer used in the reconstruction of a song.
The device itself is a triangular ” Toblerone ” , available in black or yellow , weighing 4.5 ounces ( 128 g ) and 5 x 2 x 1 in (12.7 x 5.1 x 2.5 cm) . Users operate the player to hit a touch screen to navigate through the music and through three buttons: volume up , volume down and power on / off.
A micro -USB port on one end of the device allows synchronization of music and recharge the lithium-ion battery, with the company stating that each charge with the AC 120/240 V should be good for eight hours of listen. At the other end of the PonoPlayer are a standard headphone output and an analog stereo mini-plug designed to connect to your car system , stereo or home theater .
The device comes with 64 GB of built-in memory with a microSD card included for storing up to 128 GB. Although this can store fewer songs in FLAC from what we are used to in a typical personal music player format , it is worth noting that the PonoPlayer also supports common formats like MP3, ALAC , WAV and AIFF .
PonoMusic launched on Kickstarter today and , perhaps unsurprisingly given that is behind it , which has passed the U.S. $ 800,000 funding goal . $ 300 will put you in line for one of your choice , with shipping scheduled for October 2014 if all goes as planned.
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