A major issues facing the streaming music industry is that of the digitization of music that is incorporated into their catalogs. It is worth that today practically 90% of music is mastered digitally but the problem lies in how the music in their catalogs is re-encoded.
Apple Music wants to improve the mastering of its catalog and for this the new ones have just been invented Apple Digital Masters. After the jump we tell you the origin of these new Apple Digital Masters and what it will imply in the way we listen to music through Apple Music.
It all started back in the year 2012 when the Cupertino guys launched the Mastered for iTunes show, a mastering of some songs from the iTunes catalog with which they sought to improve the audio of digital songs by improving their encoding through proprietary algorithms of the apple company. All with the aim of getting those music lovers of analog music to see digitization favorably which was sold through the iTunes catalog. A catalog, Mastered for iTunes, which has been incorporated into Apple Music by approximately 80%.
What's new, what we told you about the new Apple Digital Masters, the full incorporation of digital masters made for iTunes, and the incorporation of new songs, encoded through new codecs with less loss, to the new Apple Music catalog. All with the aim of improving, even more, the quality of the songs that we can find in Apple Music and that with it more users join their subscription. With all this, we will see more and more the Apple Digital Masters logo on the albums we listen to, a Plus sign that Apple will have been more concerned with improving the quality of this audio trying to get to the original mastering that came out of the recording studio.
