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So...

for years and years this was okay for brick and mortar stores to do: just shelve HD audio material by it's jacket info - or in some cases by the general type of packaging: DVD-V, DVD-A, SACD...but now that music is being sold ONLINE, it's the vendors responsibility to not only report the sample rate CLAIMED by the title's author, but VERIFY and CERTIFY this information is accurate?

Because he puts it in a 24/96 section?

Simple answer. Don't sort music by sample rate. Just sell music by format.

CD, HD-DVD, DVD-A, SACD, Blue-ray etc. No claim about sample rate being "native" or "non-resmapled master" and the consumer, once again, takes responsbility for what he's buying. To not do this is to put poor behaviour on the part of the labels (putting out BS HD material) onto the middle man - the online vendor. And I stand by my assertion this is not right. If he is guaranteeing that all his 24/96 material was always 24/96 then he's putting himself on the hook for that.

[I am assuming sampling of old analog masters (including the lovely tape hiss) is a non-issue since analog does not have a sample rate and any digital take-off is simply sampling. So, ANY sample rate used to capture an analog master is valid. Now, if they captured at 16/44.1 and just resampled to 48khz for video and 96khz for DVD-A or blue ray, well that's the same as the original argument.]

I think the record industry should be lobbied to be more accountable about their packaging. Then again, most consumer-bots only care if the software "will play" and that there are big fancy numbers on the software and his home theatre receiver and DVD player that give the 'feel good' sensation of having the "latest greatest" technology. Yes the guy can't tell when his speakers are wired out of phase.

These are the people the music industry is catering to. Not us. We're 1/10th of a percent of sales.

Cheers,
Presto

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